The Ukraine war was started because Putin wanted it to be his heritage that Ukraine is part of Russia. The Donbas has some mines but nothing that cannot be found eleswhere in the vast expanse of the Russian empire and nothing that Russia couldn't easily have bought with its oil money.

Iran: Security, hate, personal Grandeur

If you want to convince somebody who actually seeks truth, you have to make an argument how any country who has started a war recently has had a net economic profit.

There is enough food to feed everybody.

We have more than enough resources to go around for 10 billion people.

The limiting factor is in intelligence and dexterity. In other words, we get richer when we are more.

I haven’t found anything else that influences it.

The opposite is true. Central Europe was almost devoid of trees. Food was scarce as arable land bore little fruit without fertiliser.

Society was Malthusian until the Industrial Revolution.

But ultimately, due to arbitrage, PPA prices will converge towards expected spot market prices.

Maybe a max-capacity price would be better for household grid connections, but that doesn’t change the fact that the grid needs to be paid for.

edit: I didn’t watch the videos, I don’t have time first watch a video and then to dissect bullshit from truth.

The reason why power prices can still decouple: Because there are more and more quarter-hours where gas plants are NOT setting the price and the marginal cost is set by renewables.

The same is happening in the UK.

> , so consumers pay for the highest costing output regardless of how much if any they use.

No, if no Gas is needed (!) for power production in any quarter-hour, the price is not set by gas.

PS: Emphasis on needed. Gas plants may still be running at a loss for whatever reason (heat coupling, special contracts), but if they are not needed to provide the power, they will have to bid at a loss, and then they will not be able to drive the price.

So I don't know where you're getting the "No" from?

You could argue that maybe investing all those subsidies into nuclear would have been cheaper, but that would have had a lot of path dependencies that simply did not pan out in Europe.