The world laughed last week when news spread that the Green-run government of Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia approved the removal of a wind farm to make way for the urgent expansion of a coal mine.
Europe’s energy crisis, partly caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent disruption of fossil fuel supplies, has revealed critical weaknesses in the Utopian promise of renewable energy.
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