{"id":163770,"date":"2021-09-21T12:06:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T10:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=163770"},"modified":"2021-09-21T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T10:06:03","slug":"outbreak-of-seriously-calm-weather-forces-brits-back-to-ever-reliable-coal-fired-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=163770","title":{"rendered":"Outbreak of Seriously Calm Weather Forces Brits Back to Ever-Reliable Coal-Fired Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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To the horror of the wind cult, Britain has been forced to fire up its coal-fired power plants. As if power consumers should have no power, at all, every time calm weather sets in. How dare householders and businesses demand power when they need it? Shouldn\u2019t it be enough that they can have power whenever mother nature sees fit? The nerve of these people!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, if your leaders are still talking about an \u2018inevitable transition\u2019 to an all wind and sun powered future, get used to it. The more reliable generation that is removed from the system, the more chaos enters that system. As Cap Allon alludes to, below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK Fires Up Coal Power Plant as European Gas Shortage Worsens<\/strong>
Electroverse
Cap Allon
7 September 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEngland\u2019s green and pleasant Land\u201d has been disturbed by the firing-up of a dirty old coal power plant this week, as failing renewables, poor planning, and drastically reduced gas supplies are crippling the nation\u2019s electricity needs.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the BBC puts it: \u201cstill autumn weather has meant wind farms have not generated as much power as normal, while soaring prices have made it too costly to rely on gas.\u201d And as a result, and denting the government\u2019s commitment to completely phase out coal power by 2024, the UK\u2019s National Grid asked EDF to fire-up the West Burton A power plant to cope with demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what demand\u2026? We\u2019re in early September\u2026? The weather is fine, and temperatures are comfortable \u2014 the implications for the upcoming winter, which is predicted to be brutal by the way (more on that below), appear dire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BBC lists this article under \u201cclimate change\u201d, but the reasons they cite for the gas shortages contradict this: \u201cAcross Europe, shortages and increased demand from Asia have seen the cost of gas increase to the highest level on record \u2026 A cold start to the year meant countries across the continent dipped into their gas reserves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe and Asia\u2019s record cold winter AND spring (SW England was suffering sub-freezing lows in May for crying out loud) is behind the recent shortages, and even the BBC in their roundabout, warm-mongering way have admitted as much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe as a whole is in the same boat \u2014 the gas supply crunch is now impacting homes and businesses across the continent, with failing renewables boosting the use of fossil fuel-fired generation here, too. This in turn has driven the price of coal up more than 70% this year, and has also sent the cost of polluting in Europe to the highest-ever levels, according to bloomberg.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising gas prices are also fueling inflation and are threatening to stall economic recoveries as energy-intensive industries from fertilizer to steel may need to curb output. This is a serious concern for the health of the global economy, and it could-well prove the catalyst for the \u201cmother of all crashes\u201d that Michael Burry (of \u201cBig Short\u201d fame) sees coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe problem hasn\u2019t even started yet,\u201d said Julien Hoarau, the head of EnergyScan, the analytics unit of French utility Engie SA.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEurope will face a very tight winter.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia isn\u2019t exactly helping the situation, limiting flows at a time when Asia (namely China) is scooping up cargoes of liquefied natural gas that would otherwise be headed to Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, and speaking of our Communist Party pals: China released COVID. China paid for Biden. China banned the blockchain miners. China is buying up the world\u2019s grain, and now gas. <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

China is owning the politically-correct West, yet our \u201cleaders\u201d are more concerned with pop-topics like vaccine passports, wind farms, and transgenderism than addressing the increasing volume of power flowing to the east (Russia\u2019s gas flowing to China is a good analogy). Depressingly, the West is led by ideologically hamstrung dolts, devoid of backbones \u2014 and it will be our downfall\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Word on Nuclear<\/strong>
The Nuclear Industry Association said the decision to fire up another coal power plant highlighted the urgent need to invest in new nuclear plants. This, I believe to be true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If \u2018increasing CO2 emissions = global warming\u2019 is indeed your theory, then why is nuclear being pushed to the sidelines? <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s because nuclear threatens to \u201cfix\u201d the non-problem \u2014 i.e., wide-scale nuclear adoption would decrease global CO2 emissions, yet, as we saw during the lockdowns, this would result in zero impact on atmospheric CO2 levels, it would correlate poorly with global temperatures, and, therefore, expose the AGW fraud for what it is: just another control method.
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September 21, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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