And then it stops blowing so they buy all our Swedish electricity, making us all pay for the german environment. Except the germans.
If they overlap with the German voters who voted for Merkel and especially Schroder (who literally became an agent working for the Russian government after he left office) before that then we can certainly blame them.
Downvote me all you want, dear germans.
The quicker we transition to renewable + battery, the better. I am sorry that Germans (or should we say Putin's war?) caused higher prices for Swedes, but all studies I have seen show great benefits of the European unified grid for consumer prices.
I am not against renewables, I am for keeping our senses.
An example of something that just isn't sensible: Fueling my electric car with energy derived from coal, stored in batteries basically built by satan. (Read about the mines.) For decades, we stopped developing nuclear power because of confused environmental groups. (And against: I am not a coal thumper and definitely a green person!)
Electricity prices have basically increased five-fold at least, here. And it gets worse every years. When the wind stops, we run coal, oil and gas plants here that are extremely expensive and also destroy the environment. Instead of nuclear that we use to have.
Opting for even more wind implies the need for backup coal power. Also: a lot of wind economics is pure bs in the sense that they calculate lifetimes that are completely bogus as well as the fact that they, themselves, are not recyclable in the slightest. This is a bubbly/ boomy economy.
Also: What is bullshit are estimates for nuclear cost: Projects are started with clearly "optimistic" ideas about cost and end up being completely over budget and it never works without the tax or rate payer footing the bill. Wind, on the other hand is now a huge industry which would not have the growth rates it has even the economics wouldn't work.
Re-read.
That isn't why in the slightest. It isn't about the number of alternatives, it's entirely to do with the cost of producing electricity for the different alternatives.
When there's plenty of wind, then wind power is obviously cheap. Sometimes running into the negative, as in: we get paid to use it.
This causes _everyone_ to lose money.
When there's no wind in large areas, industry power draw (which is most of it by a wide margin), means that something else has to produce the missing energy. If too little electrical energy is produced, the entire grid breaks down, so there's a scuttle to either disconnect sub-nets or add more production.
The production that is added is more expensive. This sets the market price.
This means that base power generation from nuclear also loses money when there's a lot of wind, and that coal power is needed when there isn't any [wind.] So we all pay more _and_ destroy the environment more.
When there's no wind in Germany, they buy from the energy market, driving up prices all the way up to what Coal and Oil power generation costs (which is expensive and terrible), since that is the competition. And since everyone pays market prices, we all suffer from Germany's lack of nuclear. (And ours.)
In a sense: Germany has socialised their energy production.
If I was conspiratorical, I would say that Russia played Germany like a fiddle in this regard. Cancel your nuclear so that you have to buy gas for energy production. And here we are.
Thank you Sweden and Germany.
Neat! Can you show me graphs where that happens? Who makes that power from coal and oil?
> And since everyone pays market prices, we all suffer from Germany's lack of nuclear.
We? We who?
I don't think I pay market prices for it, since I don't live in Europe.
You cannot run any industry that requires power or energy on: oh, I wonder what the weather is like tomorrow. And if we want to replace coal and other really bad parts of reality, we have to come up with alternatives that work and actually exist.
Solar and wind now is not that. Doing more of this will lead to even greater non-linear effects on prices, which will bankrupt normal citizen. And industry won't want to be here. They need stability and _lots_ of energy.
There's a reason nuclear remains, despite cost and apparent risks. It's because it is still less bad than the alternatives.
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