Wind Stops Blowing, Back To Fossil Fuels

 

Via GridWatch, as Per usual

Well, the wind blew for a couple of days, and today it's decided to ease off. Gas has filled in the bulk of the loss, but look at the Liquorice alsort colours above the Turquoise Wind layer. That's interconnectors from Europe  supplying electricity to us. At the peak of the interconnector supply, they were supplying over 15% of the UK's electricity needs. 

Again, you have to ask the question why. 

Nuclear was providing baseload, but is this an indication that gas is slow to respond to drops in wind powered production? It seems a bit strange given that's a 6-hour period this morning where interconnectors were supplying a lot of electricity. I'm pretty sure closed cycle gas turbine plants can come on stream quicker than that.

I'm just wondering if there's a procedural or financial reason. If you look at other sources, you can see production is somewhat governed by spot prices. Certain producers will only get involved in producing electricity if the price offered for that electricity goes over a point where it's financially viable to crank up the plant and start producing. 

I'm wondering if the interconnects are happy to supply their electricity into the high-price UK market during the early morning while Europe sleeps, then withdraw and let local gas turbine plants fill in when the demand in Europe begins to ramp up. 

Trends. Disturbing Trends.

Okay, here's a bit of a conglomeration of trends. It may be a bit long-winded, but it will tie everything together. 

So, for many months we have heard the term "Great Reset". initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory, but now really out in the open. When someone writes a book called "The Great Reset" it's kind of a giveaway.

But so to is the language and the actions by those who subscribe to the Elite Ideology behind the great reset.

For instance we heard governments, officials and top business people use the phrase "Build Back Better". This is Elite shorthand which to the casual observer it is innocuous. What can be wrong with building something better? 

But build back better signals allegiance to the agenda. It is a signal to the members of the club that they are in and fully committed.

To build back better, one first has to destroy what came before. Centuries-old institutions need to be dismantled. The whole organisation that holds the fabric of civilisation together needs to be knocked down and rebuilt. But in a way that favours the Elites.

Klaus Schwab is famous for the quote that "You Will Own Nothing and You Will Be Happy". And that's the end game. The majority will own nothing, but the minority, the Elites will own everything. And you will be happy, or at least have to feign happiness in order to live your life.

It's like that episode of the Twighlight Zone where the kid has God-like powers and can make people disappear if he doesn't like them. Everyone has to be happy and smiling, otherwise they endure his wrath and vanish. Such is the future the elites want for us. 

They want all the real money and instead will give you digital currency. Which is in essence a form of credit for your labour. You work, you contribute to the global machine, you get paid in digital currency. 

To use that currency, you have to comply. Non-compliance will bring the wrath of the elites. You may have your currency deducted from your account or your account completely frozen if you do not comply. Once they control ALL the digital currency, they will stop people from helping you. No lending you a tenner because you're short this month. The transaction from their account to yours will be noted and they can stop the currency getting to your account and for non-compliance deduct or freeze their account too. And so on.

It happened in Canada with the Trucker's convoy. People supporting the convoy through GoFundMe (not directly) had their accounts frozen. I'm sure that anyone the Authorities classify as a threat in the loosest terms will have their ability to continue to live removed. In America just concerned Parents that complain have been described as Domestic Terrorists, so you can imagine the sort of people that the Elites will go after. The free thinkers, the individualists, the majority. 

Social Credit scores mean a lot more than just your standing in the community, if the people managing the scores also control your access to money, food, housing, etc.

It's authoritarianism. 

Behave, bend to our will or else.

For the great reset to work, the elites need to control the majority of everything. They already control Money and Government Policy across the world. 

Why do you think Bill Gates is buying up farms? Because he will be the arbiter of all things ESG in farming. Do as Bill Gates does, or be annihilated. Do as the Elites tell you: buy their seed, grow their animals (most likely bugs), reduce your carbon footprint. Produce next to nothing as the people starve. I'm sure a small number of Gates Inc. farms will still produce real meat, at exorbitant prices that only the elite can afford and enjoy.

The so-called ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) scores for corporations and soon small businesses will garner compliance from another swathe of the money-making apparatus. Here again the Elites will control the scores. If you have a low ESG score, you will be denied banking facilities, you will not be able to trade with other companies, because if they trade with you, they will reduce their own ESG score...

It's about control of everything. Control of money, of property, of business, of YOU.

Do not be fooled by the rhetoric, the lovey-dovey sounding stuff. It's good for the climate, it's good for the environment, it's good for the planet, it's good for social cohesion, it's good for business.... 

The only people it will be good for are those that already have money. The Elites. The one percent of the one percent. They cannot get enough. They want more.  They want it all.

There is a way you can resist. Do not vote for their cronies in government. Both sides of the house of commons and most of the House of Lords are bought and paid for. 

Remove them.

Vote for a New Party, a Party that has not been corrupted by the Elites. Reform UK is getting a lot of traction at the moment, but I feel uneasy about them. They are too close to the elites, I get the smell they are a false alternative and will just usher in more of the same. 

We need something drastically, radically new. A party that will reverse the lunatic energy policies of the past few decades, a party that will either give green subsidies to the renewable energy companies, or allow them to charge market rates for their energy, but not both. A party that will end the loopholes that allow billions in tax to leave our shores. 

We need a party that will genuinely push back against the huge grab for resources and control of the elites.

Wind Finally Supplying, but Where's Solar?

 

Graph Courtesy of Gridwatch

Finally, after the cold spell, the high-pressure system has moved on, the temperatures have risen, energy demand has reduced, the Wind has picked up and is now able to provide a decent percentage of our electricity.

However, last week was a significant pointer to how renewables don't work just when you need them.

I mean, look at solar energy production on the graph above. It's there, it's the yellow band. Can't see it? It's actually so infinitesimal it looks like a monitor artifact. It's actually just above the turquoise of wind between 10am and 4pm. 

Finally, gas-powered energy is able to back off. Nuclear is doing what it does best: provide baseload. 

The interesting thing is that the European interconnectors are supplying power into the UK. Is that because the UK is a more lucrative market? Can they sell their surplus electricity to us for a bigger profit because we can't produce cheap energy ourselves? Interesting that the Germans with their coal-fired electricity and the French with their nuclear-produced electricity have enough spare to send to Blighty and make a profit. 

Our domestic energy supply policy is so fucked up you could probably see how fucked up it is from Space. 

Revel in the wind-powered electricity until the next windless cold snap comes along. God help us if it lasts for more than a week, as current sane climate predictions say is the future climate model. 

When we get a cold, windless period for more than a week across Europe, just what happens then? If it last for a month or two? Energy companies have been able to get away with cutting back production assets in the name of climate change to boost profits and our insane Government policy has just abetted the destruction of a sensible mixed energy production network.

The shit will hit the wind turbine in the next 5 years or sooner, believe me.