there were many Portuguese Man-o-War washed up on the beach, more than I can ever recall seeing before.

...about trivial events at a nuclear plant, as if nuclear energy were unreliable and the solar and wind industries - useless fig leaves for fossil fuels - were reliable.

How come I didn't hear from the fossil fuel industry this winter, when the European electrical system almost collapsed because their solar and wind fig leaf drove electricity prices through the roof?

Germany's Weak Winds Trigger a Record Surge in Gas Fired Power.

The Norwegian Energy Minister States It Bluntly: "It's an absolute shit situation."

Is Germany Responsible for High European Electricity Prices?

German Energy Policies (Directly/Indirectly) Lead to the Collapse of Norway's Government.

Nuclear energy is the most reliable, cleanest, and affordable form of energy on the planet. It is unsurprising that the fossil fuel industry, which comes around here to post slick marketing videos claiming that Germany is making its scam product "hydrogen" using electrolysis, a thermodynamic nightmare when German electricity is produced by burning coal, is jumping on this event as if it mattered.

For the record, all Rankine cycle plants, including coal plants in China and Germany generating thermodynamically degraded electricity, which the fossil fuel industry generates using it to promote the thermodynamically and economically and environmentally odious hydrogen marketing schemes, have water intake systems.

A great deal is written about it in the scientific literature.

The success of the fossil fuel industry in demonizing the cleanest form of energy on the planet, while promoting dirty fuels like hydrogen, has left the planet in flames.

Congrats to the fossil fuel marketing team. Their success is measured in the loss of an entire planet.