Alternative Energy
Germany’s Federal Network Agency Report Shows Power Grid “On The Brink” – Thanks To Renewable Energies
The German Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency) is the authority of the German federal government overseeing electricity, gas, telecommunications, post and railway networks. You know there’s a real problem when the agency itself issues a press release warning that the national power grid is in serious trouble and that something needs to be done urgently. Steffen Hentrich [...]
Vermont Senator Says State Energy Plan Has Become “A Blind Obsession”
I got an e-mail from reader Thomas L. with a link to an opinion piece at Vermont Tiger titled “Fire On The Mountain“, written by Vermont state Senator Joe Benning. Vermont disfigures, self-mutilates its scenic ridgelines and mountains for the sake of a blind obsession. Source: lowellmountainsnews.com/ It shows how public opinion on the issue of [...]
Germany’s $3-Million “Energy-Efficient Test Home Of The Future” Flops
The European Institute for Climate and Energy takes a look at how Germany’s experimental taxpayer-paid “energy-efficient home” is doing. The home is a project by the German Federal Ministry for Transportation, Construction and Urban Development (BMVBS). As you can see, it leaves little to be desired aesthetically. The ugly-duckling energy self-sustainable home that isn’t. Erected [...]
Germany Succeeds Making Energy Unaffordable For 15% Of Its Population – 600,000 Households Disconnected Annually!
Every year 600,000 households (2 million people) are getting their power switched off in Germany because they can’t afford the skyrocketing electric bills. At that rate the country (population 80 million) will become blacked-out like North Korea by 2050. Renewable energy boom leaves Germans in the dark. It’s one way of reducing carbon emissions – [...]
Der Spiegel Reports On Germany’s “Setting Sun” – The Collapse Of The Solar Industry
Countries like the USA who have been seduced by German socialists and Greens into thinking that solar energy and green energy feed-in schemes are a job creator and an engine to prosperity ought to think again. Der Spiegel reports. Eastern Germany Hit Hard by Decline of Solar By Charles Hawley The global solar industry has entered [...]
The Green Wave – How Vermont Protects the Environment (Warning: Graphic Photos!)
Last fall I wrote about how self-anointed environmental mastermind politicians in my homestate of Vermont bulldozed public opposition, lots of trees and finally the top of Lowell Mountain to make way for “climate-saving” 450-foot industrial wind turbines. Read here and here. Here’s how environmental protection by these political environmental pimps appears so far, hat-tip: energizevermont.org. Crushed [...]
The German Energy Blog And 50Hz Sites
I’d like to recommend the German Energy Blog to readers who’d like to know the latest about German energy news and issues. You may want to bookmark it. German Energy Blog Their latest article presents a resource called 50Hz: Friday last week 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, the transmission system operator (TSO) whose grid covers large parts [...]
Killer Offshore Windparks – 3 Dead, 80 Serious Accidents “…More Have Died”
In terms of deaths, this is worse than Fukushima. Yet, we never hear a peep from the media about the dark side of this “safe and environmentally gentle energy”. Imagine if this had happened at a nuclear power plant. BardOne offshore windpark. Photo source here “Building offshore wind parks can be a deadly occupation. Three construction [...]
NoTricksZone Goes Green
Although under normal conditions it makes no economic or scientific sense to install solar panels way up here at 53° north latitude in somber northern Germany, generous subsidies make it risk-free. So either you jump through the hoop and take the money, or you pay through the nose. I have to make a confession – our [...]
The Great Green German Solar Depression – Green Revolution Brings Massive Layoffs
Warmist site Klimaretter (Climate Rescuer) here brings us the news that yet another German solar company is going under, and with it taking down hundreds of “future” jobs. Desert project. Photo: First Solar We should note that like the solar industry, the warmist movement is also hurting financially. For example, Klimaretter is now begging its [...]
News Magazine FOCUS Reveals German Green Movement’s Very Brown Roots
If you ever wondered why people in the Green Movement often seem to take on an air of arrogance, condescending superiority, to be masterful at propaganda, spiteful of human population, preoccupied with lebensraum, intolerant of other views and just plain bossy, journalists Michael Miersch and David Harnasch tell us what is probably behind it. It turns out that [...]
German Solar Manufacturer SMA Profits Take A Hit. Forecast Looks Dire
Yet another German solar manufacturer appears to be reaching the end of the line. The German TAZ here reports that profits for SMA Solar in 2011 fell by more than a half, to 166 million euros. In light of the fall in prices in the branch and planned cuts in subsidies in Germany, SMA anticipates a further decrease [...]
Green Bloodbath Accelerates – German Solar Giant Q-Cells On The Brink Of Collapse!
The Wall Street Journal Germany has an in depth analysis of the collapse of German solar module giant, Q-Cells: Too Close to the Sun – The Rise and Fall of Q-Cells. It’s worse than we thought! Last Tuesday the solar company based in Thalheim in Saxony-Anhalt, once the largest module manufacturer in the world, very quietly [...]
Germany’s Poorest Say Auf Wiedersehen To Mobility – It’s House Arrest For The Poor
Yesterday we read how EU and German bureaucrats want to force homeowners make costly home renovations, for the sole sake of saving some energy. This of course would seriously drive up rental rates for tenants, hitting the poor especially hard. Germany’s poor say auf Wiedersehen to mobility. And if it isn’t difficult enough for the poor [...]
German Eco-Czars Threaten To Force Home Owners To Make Costly Energy-Saving Rennovations
German daily Die Welt here reported last month how the transition to renewable energy development in Europe, particularly Germany, has not been progressing well lately. Offshore parks are being delayed, the expansion of the power grid is practically DOA and people are realizing that the energy the sun sends for free is actually awfully expensive [...]
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