Energy infrastructure

Gas prices have not risen because of the unreliabilty of nuclear, which is the most reliable energy source. They have risen because of a host of factors, none of which are because of your neuron meltdown causing nuclear trigger.

"Europe’s gas storage tanks are low because a lot of gas was used to heat homes in an especially cold winter and spring. Russia did not increase gas supplies over the summer to refill the tanks.

This low supply of gas, coupled with rising demand from Asia, has pushed up the price of gas and therefore the price of electricity across Europe."

Throwing out the baby with the bath water.

Germany's decision to get rid of 40%+ of its electricity capacity in a short period will have long lasting negative impacts on the wider European economy, itself and possibly for the renewable energy sector.

We are very lucky with the exceptional mild winter. Otherwise the European economy would be facing a severe crisis, it will take a lot of luck to keep supplies going till March 1st.

Yea great points. Not much good burning diesel in America to harvest the chips and the tonnes of oil to ship it to Ireland. Never mind the lorries to bring it from the port. Bord Na Mona signed a big contract with Coillte last year for Irish biomass.

Off topic but there needs to be a better way of accounting for carbon etc. Cutting the Irish herd to save carbon here but now down more rain Forrest to farm in Brazil and import the beef is stupid. Stopping moss peat and fuel peat harvesting in Ireland but bring in Lignite briquettes from Germany and moss peat and peat briquettes from Lithuania. “Creative” accounting with carbon is ridiculous.

Except that's the actual definition of net

You can convert between matter and energy.

It's the Norwegian/Apple/Scottish - and no doubt Chinese - definition of net.

Net zero is a meaningless concept. The only functionally valid measure is whether the amount of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing or decreasing. The Norwegians fund their green policies and impressive stats by exporting fossil fuels to other countries which turn them into trillions of tons of CO2 while they drive around in Etrons and Teslas with stupid self-congratulatory grins of eco-smugness as if they lived on a different planet with a different atmosphere. I'm semi surprised the idiots haven't started trying to build a dome over all of Norway.

Ireland and other western countries will utterly impoverish themselves through carbon taxes while the Chinese pull dangerously ahead due to their lower costs and greater relative competitiveness. Buying super cheap solar panels produced with Uyghur slave labour is the merest tip of the iceberg.

And we'd be screwed if they did shut it down - we're gonna be reliant on gas when the wind doesn't blow for the foreseeable future - and all that single use plastic packaging and useless plastic crap we all buy ain't going just appear out of thin air ,. Although seriously they are making huge efforts to reduce the methane flaring associated with oil production , and are starting to use renewables to power extraction and processing platforms , ( which does reduce Norway's carbon footprint )

Good to see hopefully more to come sooner rather then later.

84% of our current generation is from coal and gas and we are exporting to the UK, and that's brag worthy?

Roll on the EU CO2 target missing fines, we deserve them.

NZ. If the house prices go up another 30% before I leave, it might have to be Oz, but that's a 2nd prize I can live with.

What is the efficiency of solar at this latitude during winter? Bad weather aside, it would be good to know just how efficient or not it actually is across the year when the sun IS shining

Why are they different colours on the map then?

Theyre not more efficient though - they dont come as near to their rated capacity in winter, ergo they are less efficient.

I get what you're trying to say re: electronics and cold weather but it does not apply to any meaningful way. Otherwise winter time would produce the most power (it doesnt)