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Power Engineer. Particularly interested in exposing Net Zero lunacy.

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About time I discussed why intermittent renewable energy sources (wind and solar) are a huge problem for the well-being of society. I believe this is one of the greatest struggles of our time. A thread:

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I’m perfectly fine. But many thousands on the poverty line are not. But at least “honest” alder’s words of wisdom can comfort them whilst they freeze and can’t afford to turn on the heating. At least you’re able to respond when the question is relatively simple. You have nothing to say when the topic escapes your intellect.

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@currybum87 @aNorthernGarden @Tw_timerAlder You me how heated blankets and cups of soup in place of reliable sources of heating isn’t a regression?

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@7Kiwi Apparently gas prices are to blame for this, not price action caused by high scarcity of supply.

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@currybum87 @aNorthernGarden @Tw_timerAlder Thanks for admitting the only viable solution for net zero is for poverty and destitution to take hold and hence more deaths. Of course this is all a necessary sacrifice for the net zero overlords for the “greater good”.

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@Tw_timerAlder @aNorthernGarden @currybum87 @RichardLyon_ Why don’t you answer what I said above?

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@Tw_timerAlder @RichardLyon_ @currybum87 So when you blame the price of gas on the high price of electricity in every post you do, how do you “understand perfectly well” the logic you’re applying?

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@currybum87 @RichardLyon_ @Tw_timerAlder Yes, diversity of dispatchable generation. These costs are rising significantly now that coal is no longer in the mix. Gas, nuclear, coal, oil, biomass, pumped storage and some interconnector imports are all part of a reliable electricity mix.

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Of course the gas generators submit bids and offers. No one’s disputing that. They’re submitting very high prices because they know they’ll be accepted by NESO in the balancing mechanism. This is because the evening peaks are increasingly scarce because of wind/solar intermittency, hence there is intense scarcity being priced in.

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@khrachvik If you have true Marxism in the sense it is realised fully and not some halfway measure claimed of past implications, how are prices of production goods determined? With production centrally planned prices cannot form as in the market economy.

[Dr. Dale Wen @dale_wen]

As an overseas Chinese who has worked on China’s energy transition and energy security for more than two decades, I’m tired of German commentators selectively using China and mis-represent China to fit a green narrative.

Yes, China is building vast amounts of wind and solar. But unlike the permanent subsidy model some Germans still defend, China ended national feed-in tariffs for new solar and wind projects from June 2025. After more than twenty years of government support, these technologies are expected to compete in the market.

At the same time, China is adding more coal capacity than the rest of the world combined, and building more nuclear reactors than the rest of the world combined.

My generation and older generation of Chinese still remembers food and energy insecurity. We do not take modern industrial prosperity for granted. China’s approach has always centered on securing energy and food supply in a changing climate — not on treating intermittent renewables as an ideological end in themselves.

That pragmatic multi-source approach is the actual story about China, not the misleading version currently circulating in Berlin by wind and solar lobbyists.

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How can there be rogue companies “ripping off” consumers when energy prices are price capped? Capitalism is used as a scapegoat once more. The electricity supply industry is anything but capitalistic. Prices are set by government and choice of generating technology is determined by policy. Private companies may “own” the assets but they have no autonomy on the direction production is taken, which should be driven by consumers not government. This is socialism plain and simple.

[Miatta Fahnbulleh @Miatsf]

Energy is an everyday essential.

No one should be ripped off by rogue companies or see bills rise by price shocks thousands of miles away.

This is a first downpayment on fixing a broken system, protecting consumers from unfair costs & putting the public back in control.

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@edcporter Weird, gas setting the price less and also less total generation. But consumer prices are at all time high. How can gas possibly drive consumer prices?

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@TheDisproof That's exactly why we need coal back.

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@Lord_Keynes3 And this happened since the 1930’s because cost inputs continually drove up prices? Literal garbage.

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@Tw_timerAlder Why is the UK so dependent on gas for electricity?

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@Lord_Keynes3 LOL

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@Lord_Keynes3 When you think input costs determine consumer prices LOL

[Pete North @FUDdaily]

You are far too kind to your enemies. Renewables advocates are either greedy psychopaths or gullible morons - and both are lying through their teeth. No amount of informed technical debate will ever change their minds. The last twenty years proves that. It is either ideological, or a determination to keep filling their boots at our expense. You cannot hate them enough.

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It proves that the fossil fuel system built from the 1930’s to the 1960’s was not designed for what’s taking place. However, by spending 100’s of billions on new infrastructure the Green lobbyists will say we will get a return on investment. This is false when you consider that intermittent renewables, even with the new infrastructure, cannot meet consumers wants to the same degree as fossil fuel power stations. They are inherently inferior and the engineering issues they cause are well known.

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@FUDdaily And clowns like this “professor” advocated for this. The “intellectuals” were captured long ago and now here we are as a result of their direction and policy choices.