By P Gosselin on 10. July 2019
Fritz Vahrenholt: Merkel’s stricter climate targets to cost Germany another 3 trillion euros. The stricter climate protection targets recently announced by Chancellor Angela Merkel at a Protestant Church Congress would put a considerable burden on the German economy and every single household. If the goal formulated by Merkel to increase the CO2 reduction target from […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. June 2019
Online German business daily Handelsblatt here reported last month that leading German energy expert Jens Koeppen of Angela Merkel’s CDU party is calling for “drastic” permitting rules when it comes to installing wind turbines. Wind turbine towers over German landscape. Photo: P Gosselin The proposed rules would make a number of proposed wind projects impossible. Currently […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. June 2019
Despite all the talk about the need to transition over to green energies, Germany’s progress — in especially wind energy — has ground to a complete halt. German news site iwr.de here reports that the expansion of wind energy in Germany has “come the a stop” as the government has scaled back subsidies and enacted […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 30. May 2019
While it may seem counterintuitive, the expansion of wind and solar energy necessarily leads to the preservation and eventual growth in fossil fuel energy generation. This “paradox” hasn’t gone unnoticed. As good business practice, fossil fuel companies are now actively advocating for and investing in wind and solar technologies. In an analysis of energy return […]
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By P Gosselin on 14. May 2019
As the pressure mounts in Germany to switch off coal power plants and to rapidly transition over to green energies, one gets the feeling that it all has more to do with a desperate, last-ditch effort by the green energy proponents to rescue their pet green project. Photo right: Energy expert, Dr. Björn Peters. Image: […]
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By P Gosselin on 8. May 2019
The 4.6 trillion euro German green energies flop By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt and Frank Bosse (German text translated/edited by P. Gosselin) The demands for the phasing out of coal, fuel and natural gas are becoming ever more shrill in Germany. At first early this year it began with the bold proposal of the coal commission, […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. May 2019
German DLR model computations show each year 1.2 trillion insects are killed by wind turbine rotors in Germany alone. Wind energy shows there is no free lunch. Some major drawbacks of this “green energy” supply include blighting of the landscape, health damage from infrasound, and bird killing. Now insect killing is another that is currently […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. April 2019
Climate science and renewable energy critics are well aware of the aphorism: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” So much that is proposed is well-intended, but so poorly thought out that the consequences risk becoming catastrophic on so many levels. Also, the level of deceit and fraud that is rampant in climate […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. April 2019
A few days ago here we wrote about how a team of German scientists at the Munich-based ifo Institute released the results of a study that showed that Electric cars end up producing more CO2 than comparable diesel cars. What follows is the press release in English issued by the ifo Institute: ========================================================= ifo: Electric […]
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By P Gosselin on 19. April 2019
Germany’s Stuttgarter Zeitung here reports that electric cars are in fact pretty bad for the climate, it turns out. So, once activists are done banning fossil fuel powered vehicles, then electric ones will soon follow. According to a new German study, electric cars have “significantly higher CO2 emissions than diesel cars”, and especially the Tesla […]
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By P Gosselin on 17. April 2019
NDR north German television recently broadcast a report about the protests against a planned windpark near the German village of Kreien, some 200 km east of Hamburg. White tail eagles being chased away from nest by loudspeakers in order to clear the way for permitting 14 wind turbines over 200 meters tall in Northern Germany. […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. April 2019
According to German online business daily Handelsblatt here, German electricity are set to get significantly more expensive in 2019 due to the power grid becoming 8 percent more expensive to use. This will make already painfully high electricity prices even more excruciating. The Handelsblatt cites calculations by German think tank “Agora Energiewende”, which reports that […]
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