Subject: Re: How Europe wrecked itself

Yes, energy prices are high in Europe, due to a multitude of factors. Laying the blame entirely on renewables is dishonest, or at least deliberately incomplete. One HUGE contributor is the reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Most of the EU is now boycotting Russian energy, which has a cost to them. An exception was carved out for Hungary (or the EU couldn't have boycotted Russian energy because Hungary would have vetoed). Guess whose energy costs are among the lowest in Europe? Hungary's. Nothing to do with renewables.

Germany has a good power grid but they need to get the power from the renewables to the user centers, they haven't done that - which may be due to reliance on Russian energy. Just like the rest of us, they appear to have been complacent.