“An inconvenient truth to the green energy believers is that there is no green energy transition happening, so they ignore that it is not happening. The world's increasing demand for energy is being satisfied more by coal than by solar panels and wind turbines”.

That's all that needs to be said.

Charles,

Your article mixes fact with heavy distortion. Yes, dispatchable power is critical and fusion isn’t ready yet. But your framing of fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables is misleading at best.

CO2’s role in climate change is not speculative. Satellite data, attribution studies, and physical measurements have long established not just the presence but the specific consequences of CO2-driven warming. Pretending otherwise ignores decades of evidence.

On nuclear, you inflate the waste problem without mentioning that vitrification and geological storage - already operational in places like Finland - offer viable long-term solutions. If waste alone disqualified technologies, coal and gas would have been abandoned long ago given their enormous health and environmental toll.

Your treatment of renewables is worse. Solar and wind are now the cheapest sources of new electricity globally. Storage costs are falling fast, and grid solutions go far beyond just "batteries." Claiming otherwise is years behind reality.

As for Germany, high household prices reflect taxes and historical policy decisions far more than renewable generation costs. And contrary to your claims, Germany remains a net electricity exporter - hardly the mark of a failed grid.

Claiming there is "no green energy transition" is pure denial. Renewables now supply the vast majority of new global electricity growth. Fossil fuel demand is still high because total energy use keeps rising - but that doesn’t change the fact that renewables are taking over most new growth.

You talk about ideology, but you’re the one pushing it - cherry-picking facts, quoting old numbers, and throwing around words like "illusion" and "delusion" to cover for a narrative that just doesn’t hold up.

The transition is real. It’s messy, it’s incomplete, and it’s happening anyway. Pretending otherwise doesn’t make you sound sceptical - it just makes you sound stuck.

"Germany remains a net electricity exporter"

Not true John (yet again). Net imports of about 30 twh in 2024. Have you ever considered being truthful instead of a lying shonk?

Fester,

Germany was a net electricity exporter for most of the past decade, including during major renewable expansion years.

A single year’s shift - in the middle of a deliberate nuclear shutdown and an energy crisis triggered by Russia’s war - doesn’t change the broader reality.

You’re playing "gotcha" with a cherry-picked moment - and even then, Germany’s imports were small relative to its total generation.

I'm sure you'll catch me being wrong about something one day, but today just doesn't look like that day.

In the meantime, try addressing the argument instead of reaching for a technicality and shouting "liar."

John,

Germany was a net energy exporter last year. That is a fact. It isn't cherry picking.

I'd guess that the big worry for the wind and solar spruikers is what just happened in Spain and Portugal? I woke up to that news at 4am and immediately thought "grid instability from wind and solar". I will be interested to see what come from the investigation. If it is as I suspect , then the average punter might wake up to the renewable energy con unfolding in Australia.

Do you remember the story of Alice Spring's grid being destabilised by a passing cloud? Think of all those spinning turbines like a giant train. The momentum makes the grid stable. You would have that momentum with nuclear.

And if I were to offer criticism of the article I would suggest a mention of the grid instability that wind and solar bring.

"High share of renewables raises grid reliability concerns

Spain derives 56% of its electricity from renewable sources, primarily wind and solar. This high reliance makes power generation more weather dependent. Combined with limited interconnection capacity with neighboring countries, this reduces flexibility in load balancing and increases the challenge of maintaining grid stability—factors that likely contributed to the blackout.

Restarting the grid following such a large-scale outage involves a complex “black start” process, which requires smaller backup generators to sequentially restart larger power units before reconnecting them to the transmission network under strict dispatch control.

REE estimated that national restoration in Spain might take 6 to 10 hours. However, REN warned that due to system complexity and international electricity flows, full recovery across the region could take up to a week."

https://reccessary.com/en/news/world-regulation/spain-portugal-power-outage