A country (Germany) that can run on renewables for a windy weekend still has to keep enough coal and gas on hand to carry most of the load the week after, which means paying for two power systems, says Charles Rotter.
The island of El Hierro only has about 11,000 people, but in 2008 it set out to show the world how to do a full transition to an electric system powered only by wind turbines backed up by a hydro-electric energy storage system. Francis Menton wonders what has happened since.
It is impossible not to notice the analogy between the events that led to China’s Great Famine in 1958-1962 and the ongoing energy disaster being imposed on various U.S. states and other Western countries by an equally ignorant clique of political ideologues, says Francis Menton.
Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove has warned that Britain’s approach to energy has left the country dangerously exposed to hostile states, arguing that national security considerations have been pushed aside in the pursuit of Net Zero.
Los responsables políticos y las instituciones mediáticas subestiman los peligros creados por sistemas energéticos poco fiables y el aumento de los costos de la electricidad, afirmó recientemente la analista energética Kathryn Porter en el pódcast Heretics. Pero ella cree que el problema es mucho más grande que eso: «Las sociedades que entran en períodos de estrés político y económico suelen volverse más autoritarias. Todo el modelo está empezando a desmoronarse.»
Politiker und Medien unterschätzen die Gefahren unzuverlässiger Energiesysteme und steigender Stromkosten, erklärte die Energieanalystin Kathryn Porter kürzlich im Heretics-Podcast. Doch sie hält das Problem für weitaus gravierender: „Gesellschaften, die in Phasen politischer und wirtschaftlicher Krisen geraten, neigen oft zu autoritäreren Strukturen. Das gesamte System gerät ins Wanken.“
Policymakers and media institutions underestimate the dangers created by unreliable energy systems and rising electricity costs, energy analyst Kathryn Porter recently stated on the Heretics podcast. But she thinks the problem is much bigger than that: “Societies entering periods of political and economic stress, often become more authoritarian. The whole model is starting to crumble.”
Les décideurs politiques et les médias sous-estiment les dangers engendrés par des systèmes énergétiques peu fiables et la hausse des prix de l'électricité, a récemment déclaré l'analyste énergétique Kathryn Porter dans le podcast Heretics. Mais selon elle, le problème est bien plus vaste : « Les sociétés qui traversent des périodes de tensions politiques et économiques ont souvent tendance à devenir plus autoritaires. Tout le système commence à s'effondrer ».
