The European Union serves as a warning of what happens when ideology trumps physics. Climate mandates cannot make the wind blow. The "green" emperor has no clothes, and, baby, it’s cold outside...
Authored by Vijay Jayaraj: Europe stands as the self-proclaimed cathedral of the “green” transition.
Bureaucrats in Brussels and politicians in Berlin have spent decades lecturing the world on the moral necessity to abandon hydrocarbons.
Yet,
when the first real chill of winter settled over the continent this
fall, that facade collapsed under the weight of physical reality.
Europe depends on fossil fuels for approximately 70% of its total energy
consumption. This figure has remained stubbornly consistent over the
years despite billions of euros spent on solar and wind infrastructure.
The much-celebrated growth in those technologies masks a fundamental
truth about energy systems that European policymakers refuse to
acknowledge in public: Electricity accounts for only a fraction of total
energy demand.
