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Shellenberger's article is excellent and spot on. People should read it. So a few things... On Britain: there are only about 8GWs of installed capacity right now anyway, of coal. Thanks to both natural gas and nuclear, coal is on it' way out regardless of what happens elsewhere in terms of new generation in the country. I really want folks to take a look at the "Electricity Map" to see real-time carbon footprint of each country or region. It is very enlightening: https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=country&solar=false&remote=true&wind=false&countryCode=GB Secondly, MM is absolutely correct. The key difference this last week was natural gas. Natural gas and wind/solar go together perfectly since all countries with wind and solar need some sort of back up for the make up of generation daily depending on the time of day and the weather. And all this made possible by...fracking. The UK is the one country in western Europe with a large and influential anti-nuclear/pro-wind/solar lobby. They *do* have a strong wind lobby but it's not organized politically as it is in other countries. The UK has decided to build around 8KWs of new nuclear. This might eliminate the need to repeat the failure in Germany. Shellenberger has an excellent series on Germany and it's failed " *Energiewende*" policy. David _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
