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By P Gosselin on 9. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitter More pain for consumers. Electricity prices in Germany climb to a new high, reaching 30.85 cents (euro) per kilowatt hour. Experts warn transition to green energies may lead to shortages, higher prices. German online national daily Die Welt here reports on how electricity prices in the country have reached “a new high” and […]
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By P Gosselin on 25. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBusiness soon could be getting awfully rough for electric (battery) car technology manufacturers. For example, German online news weekly FOCUS here reports how the Singapore government “does not want electric cars” and even “is blocking electric cars”. E-cars dirtier than claimed According to Minister Masago Zulkifli bin Masagos Mohamad, who is responsible for the […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 19. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA growing proportion of Sweden’s energy is derived from burning biomass (wood), which increases CO2 emissions 65% and 285% more than coal and natural gas energy generation, respectively. And yet because governmental policy – not science – has (wrongly) declared biomass burning “renewable” and “carbon neutral”, Greta Thunberg’s Sweden is falsely credited with reducing […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe “Green New Deal” is a multi-trillion-dollar plan proposed by Ocasio-Cortez in February of 2019 and backed by almost one hundred members of Congress, including most of the Democratic presidential hopefuls. Among a slew of other sacrifices, the program would force our prosperous society to replace diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles with electric vehicles and […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterTenders for new wind energy projects in Germany “have fallen to a new, all-time low”, the online IWR reports here. After the installation of thousands of megawatts of German wind power capacity led to instability in the power grid, exploding electricity prices and the destruction of natural landscapes and biotopes, protests against wind projects […]
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By P Gosselin on 6. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn and interview with flagship German business daily Handelsblatt here, Danish economist Björn Lomborg warned of the “inefficiency in climate protection” and says Germany is a “deterrent example” in this respect. “Gigantic costs” He told the Handelsblatt that the once highly praised “Energiewende” was “poorly implemented” and that the costs will be “gigantic”. Image: […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. August 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterSome fresh new scientific papers are confirming that renewable energies, particularly wind and solar power, are not delivering what was promised – not by a long shot. They likely will become far more of a burden than a benefit. “Virtually doubled the price of electricity” For example, Pereira et al., 2019 writes that “growth […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. August 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterNoTricksZone contributor Kirye provides us with a unique look at climate and energy developments in Japan. =============================================== World may get another climate realist leader By Kirye As the working class struggles economically, signs of profound anti-establishment shifts are emerging in Japan, spurred on by a new political leader who is a climate and energy […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. August 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe President of the German Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe (Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief, abbreviated BKK) is calling on citizens, government offices and companies to be prepared for widespread blackouts. In an interview with German national daily Die Welt, BBK President Christoph Unger warned that in the future Germany faced […]
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By P Gosselin on 6. August 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterWind energy is not only an eyesore in the middle of what is often times an idyllic landscape and an unreliable source of power, but it is also expensive – especially if you are a homeowner nearby a wind park a German study has found. ============================================= Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne Industrial turbines knock down […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterFritz 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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterOnline 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. […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterDespite 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 […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 30. May 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterWhile 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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 14. May 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAs 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. […]
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By P Gosselin on 8. May 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe 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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. May 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman 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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterClimate 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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA 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: […]
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By P Gosselin on 19. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGermany’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 […]
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