Posted on 06/30/2023 3:28:23 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Sweden, long the darling of progressives for its climate change policies, has gone nuclear on the green scheme.
On Tuesday, the Swedish parliament made a language change with major reverberations in the energy sector, according to Reuters.
Parliament set the nation’s goal to become “100% fossil-free” electricity, instead of “100% renewable” as a way to both reach the growing electric power demand it projects for 2040 and achieve its goal of net zero emissions by 2045.
“This creates the conditions for nuclear power,” Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson said.
“We need more electricity production, we need clean electricity and we need a stable energy system,” she said.
The website Slay News reported that Svantesson called wind and solar power too “unstable” and that “substantial industrialized economies” required what she called a “nuclear pathway in order to “remain industrialized and competitive.”
John Constable, Net Zero Watch’s Energy Director, said the move means Sweden will “ground their economy in an energy source, nuclear, that is physically sound and secure, unlike renewables which are neither.”
Governments that do not follow Sweden’s example are continuing “to live in a fantasy” about meeting climate change goals, he said, adding, “we are coming to the end of the green dream.”
The Sydney Morning Herald noted that “Environmental campaigners, including Greens MPs, have criticized the recent changes to Sweden’s energy policy, saying it clashes with the country’s previous identity as a climate leader.”
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Too many Alex Jones listeners!
Alex Jones must be silenced or our globalist depopulation agenda will be thwarted and globalists will be hanging from trees.
Greta’s in a tough spot - she recently backtracked on nuclear power with respect to Germany, something to the effect of “better nuclear than coal”. The Greens were not pleased. Now it’s Sweden. It will be interesting to hear what her handlers tell her to say.
Finally some common sense.
Just like most of Sweden’s COVID policies.
Cheap energy is why we have good lives. Just now in Australia the cost of electricity is going to rise twenty percent on July 1st. Twenty percent increase. If only they had built nuke plants but now it is just about too late.
Who would have guessed Sweden would be a home of liberty. Sweden didn’t buy into the covid shutdown.
HOW DARE YOU??!!
Another move toward Swedish sanity: “Immigration to Sweden has been unsustainable,” reads a statement by new Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of the center-right Moderate Party, delivered in October to the country’s legislative body, the Riksdag. “This government’s message is that this cannot continue. A paradigm shift is now taking place in Swedish migration policy.”
Time for NATO to bomb Sweden for not following the globalist agenda.
It’s certainly a good step to (maybe) be willing to end immigration, but the cancer is there, the question is whether they are capable, or even allowed to, excise it.
Those numbers are most likely just the Cost of Electricity (COE) ignoring the massive changes needed to make the grid work with renewables and the massive cost of backup plants. The wind and solar have a capacity factor (actual average output divided by nameplate rating) in the 28% to 30% range. So you need to build almost 3X more conventional capacity that sits there idle a lot just waiting to fill in when the wind dies and the sun doesn’t shine. The grid system was designed for stable, high capacity factor electricity sources and is not suitable for intermittent, unreliable sources. There was a report this week that the US alone needs 47,000 MILES of new transmission lines to support “green” energy. But just ONE 700 mile transmission line from Montana to California took 18 YEARS just to get the permits and only a small portion of it has been completed.
People are waking up to the fact that not only will the “viewsheds” in the USA be destroyed by windmills and solar panels, but tens of thousands of miles of new transmission lines must cross the country to aggregate and deliver the “green” power.
This is a colossal trillion dollar disaster.
They still have that Muslim problem
Their . . . Uuummm . . . immigrants are going to love getting their hands on all those nuclear by-products.
Considering what is going on in France.
The film "The China Syndrome" starring Jane Fonda has something to do with that.
I was going to say Greta must be beside herself and look, I was right.
Sweden will be an Islamic caliphate in a few generations. Muslims don’t care about the white man’s “global warming.”
Finland just did the very same thing.
Wind solar etc are a battery system. not a grid system.
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