Alternative Energy
The “Climate” Word Now Getting Dropped From Discussions About Energy In Germany
Yesterday the Maybrit Illner talkshow on ZDF television was about Germany’s attempt to shift to renewable energy in the wake of the shutdown of 7 nuclear power reactors after the Fukushima tsunami disaster. No one utters the “C” word on the Maybrit Illner show. (Photo credit: Das blaue Sofa / Club Bertelsmann) The political talkshow, [...]
Germany Singing A Requiem For Its Solar Industry – “Not A Single Company In The Black….Industry Will Disappear Within 5 Years”
All the green jobs of the future that were promised – have now turned into dashed dreams. On the scrap heap along with the promises of communism, redistribution, third ways, etc. FOCUS magazine here brings us up-to-speed on the trials and misery of Germany’s much maligned solar industry. The situation is worse than we thought. Solar [...]
Matt Ridley On How Modern Civilization Is Doing (Better Than Ever!)
I was going to post this tomorrow, but what the hell… ATTENTION GERMAN READERS: 21:05 mark has a rather damning observation about Germans in general. So why is it Germans are so damn pessimistic?
The Great Subsidy Pile-On! German Consumers Should Expect More Massive Rising Costs For Renewable Energy
As it becomes more and more evident that renewable energies such as solar and wind are turning out to be far costlier than ever anticipated, and will do nothing to the climate, the masterminds behind them don’t want to hear it. Now they are going to do whatever it takes to make them work – no [...]
Vahrenholt Interviews With HNA: “At Most One Degree More”
I’m a little short on time today, and so I will provide the translation of the latest Die kalte Sonne website’s piece on an interview of Fritz Vahrenholt by the HNA titled: “At Most One Degree More”. Vahrenholt projects cooling in the coming two decades. Although the interview is not available online, Die kalte Sonne [...]
Leading German Daily Writes: Germany’s Energy Transformation Is A Flop, Government Takeover Looms
What subsidies and government meddling in the free market could not accomplish, will probably soon be attempted by a government takeover. Germany’s attempted “energy transition to renewables has failed”. Flagship daily the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) here writes that there are 4 main obstacles in Germany’s energy transformation: 1. Wind supply is unpredictable. 2. There’s no good [...]
Germany’s Green Führism: We Have To Destroy It In Order To Rescue It. Green Infallibility Shows Its Ugly Side
Slowly it seems that some greens are starting to wake up from their zombie condition and are showing signs that they may one day realize the disaster they’ve unleashed. German public television, the ZDF of all networks, has a clip on how the building of windmills has completely run amok in Germany. Hat-tip: www.kaltesonne.de/.
Germany’s Per Kilowatt-Hour CO2 Emissions Jump 4%! Transformation To Renewables Flops
Steffen Hentrich of the liberty-oriented blogsite “Denken für die Freiheit” (Thinking for Liberty) writes a piece called “Climate-Killing Energy Transformation“ about how Germany’s energy transformation from nuclear and fossil fuels to renewable energies is not working out very well. Instead of generating less CO2 per kilowatt-hour, Germany is emitting more!
600,000 Households In Germany Without Power – “Increasing Energy Poverty Is Alarming”
Here’s Germany’s solution to saving energy and reducing its carbon foortprint- make electricity affordable only to a few rich people! German online DIE WELT daily has an article titled: Hundreds Of Thousands Have Had Their Power Turned Off. Germany’s power and gas has become so expensive thanks to its Renewable Energy Feed-in Act that it [...]
Germany ‘s $130 Billion Investment In Solar Energy Delays Global Warming A Whole 23 Hours!
Modern German solar park. MUST READ! Boy, I’m sure our great grandchildren will be thanking us for that one extra day! Here’s a sad, yet funny evluation of one of the greatest engineering follies of all time. H/t DirkH Björn Lomborg has a new article out that assesses Germany’s solar energy “boom”. Germany’s Sunshine Daydream [...]
Harvard German Conference: Germany Attempting To Hawk Its Catastrophic Energy Strategy To The USA
Anyone wondering what some US leaders envision for the USA’s energy policy may wish to attend the following Harvard German Conference to find out. The energy part of the conference is taking place this weekend, Saturday morning, February 18, 2012: 9:30 – 10:30: Energy – Keynote Jeremy Rifkin. The Third Industrial Revolution: The New German Model [...]
Energy Expert: Germany’s Renewable Energy Transition “Will Fail Spectacularly – Heavily Damaging The Economy”
The European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) issued a press release on a 28-page report that German energy expert Dr. Guenter Keil wrote concerning Germany’s transition to renewable energy, and away from nuclear and fossil fuel energy. KEIL’S FULL 28-PAGE REPORT IN ENGLISH As the report shows, Germany’s transition to green energy is turning into [...]
Amid Solar Bankruptcies And Red Ink – David Suzuki Insists Solar Power “Is Free, Man, It’s Free!”
Amid all the solar bankruptcies and exorbitant subsidies being paid out and causing electricity rates to skyrocket, see previous post, here’s hippie David Suzuki in the following video (3 min. mark) insisting “It’s free, man, it’s free!” With idiots like that advising governments, we’re not surprised everything is going bankrupt. It may be an alternative, [...]
From Rescuing The Climate To Rescuing The Economy – Germany’s Energy Transition Goes Into Reverse
Imagine if the government forced supermarkets to buy bread from plain white bread bakeries, ordered them to pay these bakeries a fixed price that’s 5 times higher than normal for 20 years, and forced them to buy up all the white bread these bakeries could produce, whether needed or not. And imagine if the government also forced the [...]
Solar Subsidy Sinkhole – Germany’s Solar Debacle Is A “Massive Money Pit”
The English Der Spiegel presents a blistering report on the solar energy debacle in Germany this week in a piece titled: Solar Subsidy Sinkhole, Re-Evaluating Germany’s Blind Faith in the Sun. The costs of subsidizing solar electricity have exceeded the 100-billion-euro mark in Germany, but poor results are jeopardizing the country’s transition to renewable energy. [...]
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