Consumer electricity prices in Germany climb to record high: 45-80 Cents/kwh
What is happening --and will continue to happen world-wide-- is that the unscientific madness that &quot;save the planet&quot; and &quot;fight climate change&quot; have become are starting to collide with physics and reality.<p>Take electric vehicles as an example.  I don&#x27;t know of a single nation that will not have to more than double energy production capacity in order to fully convert all vehicles to electric power and abandon fossil fuels.  This isn&#x27;t conjecture, the need for massive amounts of additional energy is a matter of simple physics calculations anyone with basic high school math and physics can follow.<p>The US alone will need somewhere in the range of 900 to 1400 GW to go fully electric.  For context, that&#x27;s equivalent to over a thousand new 1 GW class nuclear power plants.<p>As for saving the planet.  Well, we can&#x27;t.  There&#x27;s nothing whatsoever we can do to materially modify the CO2 curve within any reasonable human time scale.  This is a planetary scale effect that requires tens of thousands of years to achieve somewhere close to a 100 ppm reduction in atmospheric CO2 concentration.  In this context, CO2 taxes are beyond useless.  They are ridiculous.  They do absolutely nothing other than cause economic harm.<p>And yet, given these realities, people support truly dumb ideas, like shutting down nuclear power plants (or not building lots more of them) as well as other silly stuff that can never and will never pass basic physics analysis.<p>Sadly, it&#x27;s an &quot;emperor has no clothes&quot; scenario that might just take a massive failure before people and politicians finally understand they are making the wrong decisions.<p>I have devoted a non trivial amount of time going deep into these topics in order to be able to separate fact from fiction.  I discuss the topic and provide data when the opportunity arises.  I just don&#x27;t know what to do any more.<p>When it comes to this topic, scientists are in fear of swimming against the currents created by politicians, zealots and the indoctrinated.  And people allow themselves to be swept into the madness generated as a result.  Some of what you see out there is virtually indistinguishable from a cult.  A perfect example of this being what they did to Greta Thunberg, an innocent girl indoctrinated to use her for a cause without caring one bit that she was made to live in real fear because she was made to believe the end of the world is approaching within her lifetime.  Shameful.  Criminal.<p>We have somehow managed to replace reason with delusion.