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By P Gosselin on 17. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterGermany’s capital Berlin was forced to replace some of its electric buses with diesel buses due to range problems associated with the cold weather. Berlin. Germany’s fleet of e-buses had a hard time coping with the recent cold weather as dozens had to be replaced by diesel powered buses. Photo by Robert Radke, CC […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterCORRECTION: 22 firefighters were needed (not 22 brigades). =================================== The burned out vehicle and unstable batteries had to be submerged in a container full of water for days to keep them from reigniting. The German online HNA daily here reports how a VW Golf 8 Hybrid vehicle suddenly “exploded” Saturday evening before bursting into […]
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By P Gosselin on 6. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterUPDATE 1: Temperatures are well below freezing now with winds up 60 km/hr. Transportation has become largely paralyzed, with the German Railway announcing much service has been suspended. Snow is expected to continue until this evening. https://www.bild.de/ Green energy and COVID-19 lockdowns are playing energy Russian roulette with people’s lives. Perfect winter storm brewing. […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterWintertime wind and solar energy “between 0 and 2 or 3 percent – that is de facto zero,” says German power distribution professor. Berlin’s power supply severely strained Germany now finds itself in the dead of winter. Much of the country has seen considerable snowfall, meaning solar panels are often covered by snow and […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterMore than 400 cows have died mysteriously since a wind park was built near a herd in 2012. Local residents also suffering health issues: “permanent fatigue, muscle aches, headaches, insomnia” Earlier we wrote about the adverse health impacts of wind turbines and on humans and animals, read here and here. Also search NTZ zone […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterAlthough Germany sees about as many hours of sunshine as Alaska, the country is pushing for ever larger solar farms. Germany business daily Handelsblatt here reports that power company EnBW is currently building a 500 MW solar panel park in Brandenburg, 30 km east of Berlin. It reported that it will be able to […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterA further analysis of last Friday’s European near power blackout shows that the problem had begun already one day earlier in France, due to cold weather, says a German expert. At wind energy protest group Vernunftkraft Bayern, Jörn Künzle provides background on what was behind Europe’s near blackout last Friday, January 8, 2021. We […]
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By P Gosselin on 9. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterFirst, many of you surely have heard of a widespread purge of followers and account suspensions happening at Twitter, most notably that of the U.S. President, Donald Trump and Sidney Powell. NoTricksZone lost 3oo followers since January 6. Tony Heller’s account has lost 3000 in just a matter of hours. Moving to Gab, Parler […]
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By P Gosselin on 30. December 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterAlso: lithium battery e-vehicles not practical, not affordable…future of e-mobility still “wishful thinking”. In a very recent interview, Germany/Austria’s top automobile engine expert Prof. Dr. Fritz Indra says hydrogen fuel cars will amount to “nada” because of the high inefficiency and costs. The same applies to e-vehicles. No to government engineering The Austrian engineer […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. December 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterA huge success has been achieved for nature and species conservation in Germany, reports the Naturschutzinitiative e.V. (NI). This means installing wind parks in nature-sensitive areas will remain extremely difficult. RESULT: Endangered species and biotopes will remain protected. Red kites will now be less threatened – photo: Ingo Kühl/NI The notorious § 1 paragraph […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. December 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterDie kalte Sonne Image: GWPF Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt was interviewed by the Hamburger Abendblatt on a new book he co-authored: “Unerwünschte Wahrheiten: Was Sie über den Klimawandel wissen sollten“ (Unwanted Truths: What You Have To Know About Climate Change). He warns that Germany’s energy policy of transitioning to renewable energies could lead to a […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. December 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterPressured by climate activism, power genherator Vattenfall announced it will shut down its recently commissioned 1.65 GW modern Moorburg coal power plant in Hamburg, Germany. It will take the equivalent of over 1600 wind turbines to take up the slack. Just days ago, I reported here how Big Wind and crony politicians are pushing […]
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