Alternative Energy
EU Commission Plans Fundamental Course Change In Energy Policy – More Focus On Economics, Less On Climate
Major German dailies today are reporting that Europe is beginning to give up on the big green dream it once so deeply cherished and envisioned a great society powered by clean sunshine and wind. After trying for years to force renewable energies onto consumers, the bill came and eyes popped. Suddenly we are also seeing studies [...]
Leading Economics Publisher Calls Germany’s Subsidized Solar Industry “A Capital Destroyer Of Historic Dimensions”!
The ever excellent Achse Des Guten (Axis of the Good) has what is probably one of the most stinging criticisms of the solar industry I’ve read to date (and I’ve read some awfully harsh ones up to now). The latest is authored by Dr. Wolfram Weimer, a leading German publisher of news and economics magazines. Wolfram [...]
Germany’s $20-Million Solar Jobs – Die Welt Finally Realizes: “Expensive Green Energy Subsidies Useless”
German national daily Die Welt here reports on the desolate state of Germany’s renewable energies, particularly solar and biofuel, written by Daniel Wetzel. Once believed to hold the key to future jobs and prosperity, renewable energies in Germany are now emerging as a complete flop and a national embarrassment. Coming on the heels of the solar [...]
Wind Power In Germany Puts Out Only A Small Fraction Of Rated Capacity In April. Standby Plants Losing Money
Feeding-In Wind Energy In April: An Expensive Game By the European Institute for Climate and Energy (Germany) (Translated, edited and supplemented by P Gosselin) April is almost over and the ever more expensive German EEG Energy Feed-In Act is celebrated day after day by politicians, most of the media, and the many benefactors of receiving subsidies from [...]
Trapped, Stefan Rahmstorf Declares Pretending To Be Better Than Facing Reality (Playing Into Skeptic Hands)
German climate catastrophe-obsessed blogsite klimaretter.com here has a 2-part story on a recent alarmist panel discussion held in Berlin and sponsored by Germany’s version of the Guardian, the TAZ. The panel discussion was dubbed: ”The climate conference circus! Just how stupid is it?” The motto of the 2-hour discussion: “It can’t keep on like this!” Photo right: Oliver Geden [...]
WaPo Trashes Europe’s Green Energy Policy…Calling It A “Green-Energy Basket Case”
The Washington Post lashes out at Europe’s failure to impose a continent-wide cap and trade scheme designed to make carbon fuels more expensive, calling European governments “incompetent central planners” and the continent as a whole a “green energy basket-case“. The Post laments that Europe has blown a big opportunity to become a greener economy. I [...]
Renewable Energy Investment In Obama’s Once Ballyhooed Spain Evaporates – Plummeting 96%!
Global investment in renewable energies in the first quarter of this year plummeted a whopping 22%, falling to $40 billion, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance here. The consequences for many companies and their employees of course will be calamitous to say the least. So many employees had been given the false promise of green [...]
Worldwide Doubt Over Germany’s “Energiewende” Grows…German Flagship Daily Calls It “An International Flop”
International Doubt Over The Success Of Germany’s Energiewende growing by Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) Germany’s Energiewende [energy transition over to renewables] is being watched closely in foreign countries. Already bets are being made on whether the expensive experiment is going to work. Meanwhile increasing numbers of international experts are expressing [...]
Chinese Wind Turbine Torture
“I thought ‘green energy’ – wonderful! We’re gonna help the environment. It’s going to be good for everybody.” Hat-tip DirkH
Media Of Deception: Germany’s Public Media Mislead Their Audience, Link 16,000 Tsunami Deaths To Fukushima
Can we trust the media? Germany’s massive public funded radio and television demonstrates to us that the answer is: not always. Yesterday many media outlets reported on the 2-year anniversary of Japan’s “earthquake/tsunami/Fukushima” disaster. The way some German public television and radio outlets are presenting the disaster 2 years later would probably make even North Korean [...]
Leading “Energy Expert” Frustrated That Germans Are More Scared Of Renewable Energy Than Climate Change
UPDATE: Yesterday I left 2 regular comments at Kemfert’s Facebook site, but they have both since disappeared. Obviously she is not open to other views – we’re so surprised. Paul Hockenos at the European Energy Review (EER) reports that “energy expert” Dr. Claudia_Kemfert, Director of the Energy, Transportation, and Environment Unit at the prestigious Deutsche Institut [...]
Germany’s Wind Performance Was Just As Bad As Great Britain’s – Sun And Wind Are Often AWOL!
A couple of days ago we saw how wind power in Britain at one point had fallen to just a fraction of one percent in supplying national demand. The situation was hardly better in Germany. The following chart provided by Wilfried Heck here shows Germany’s electric power consumption and the energy fed in by wind [...]
The Good Maize Gets Burned – While Toxic Leftovers Wind Up In Our Food Chain!
It’s bad enough that the environment is taking a hit from millions of acres of land being converted to a vast monoculture of maize to supply biogas plants and ethanol producers that are supposed to rescue the environment. Food for saving the climate. Consumers get stuck with contaminated leftovers. Photo credit: Bill Whittaker, Creative Commons [...]
Vermont, New England Begin Sobering Up…Public Support For Ridgeline Windparks Erodes!
And if they can’t put the wind turbines up on ridgelines, there aren’t too many other places they could be put in Vermont. I guess developers could try putting them “offshore” on Lake Champlain – yeah, right. That would be as stupid as putting them on mountain ridgelines. Vermont; photograph taken by Jared C. Benedict, [...]
Germany’s Renewable Energy Efficiency Falls To Just Over 20% – Threatening To Ruin Country’s Competitiveness
Every good manager knows that economic success and environmental protection only get achieved when resources are used efficiently and wisely. It makes little sense to buy a huge machine that can run only 20% of the time when you can get the job done using a much smaller machine that runs 100% all the time. [...]
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