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Germany and Britain are so heavily dependent on wind and solar, that gloomy, windless weather now presents an existential threat. The Germans have even coined a word for it: ‘dunkelflaute’.

If mass blackouts during freezing winter weather weren’t a threat to millions of lives, it would almost be comical.

What’s occurred is the perfect example of what happens when engineers are shown the door and starry-eyed ideologues with arts and sociology degrees are handed the controls.

The idea that densely populated, industrialised nations can run on sunshine and breezes alone is as crazy as it sounds; and the evidence that proves the delusion – provided by Germany and Britain – is simply incontrovertible.

As recounted on these pages, the Germans have shelved ideas to close their remaining three nuclear power plants; they’re maintaining and ramping up every single coal-fired power plant they have; and they’re in the process of building…