Womble

If you have concerns like that always express them in an email as well as verbally, not only is it good for covering your own ass if you weren’t able to pull it out the fire (tbh I think you shouldn’t have busted your ass to make it work), but its also going to make people less likely to claim that unearned credit for your heroic work if you do.

For a little context, saying our sun is seconds from dying is about as accurate as saying the universe will undergo heat death in billions of years (taking heat death to be no more active stars left in the universe).

Because getting the UK to rejoin sends a very clear sign of “don’t think about leaving, you’ll just come crawling back poorer” to all the other countries’ eurosceptic movements.

Yup, yet for some reason the MLs are always talking about how brave Russia is in standing up to western imperialism by invading Ukraine.

Almost like they cant see further than “west bad, therefore anti-west good”.

While grid interconnections help, there is still a problem of weather not drastically changing at country boundaries. So for example Europe currently looks like this:

and has looked pretty much the same since the start of the year.

So very little solar production is going on anywhere, that leaves wind as the only active intermittance source, so places that have a lot of wind production like UK and Denmark use all the wind they produce, and countries that make less power from wind and more from solar have nowhere to import significant amounts from.

You need either dispatchable power (gas/nuclear) or long term grid scale storage (multiple weeks worth) to make a power grid work. Currently the latter is prohibitavely expensive so the former is needed.