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By P Gosselin on 20. September 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterHere’s a newly released 7-minute video that needs to be spread throughout the world. It illustrates how green energies are much worse for the planet than claimed. More pollution, destruction of nature and exploitation of poor countries – just so elitists in rich countries can feel like they are good stewards of the planet. […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. September 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterYou would think that with all the added wind and solar energy in Germany, along with all the conventional power plants on standby, all totaling up to huge unneeded capacity, there would be no need to import any power at all. Well, think again. Photo: P. Gosselin The German epochtimes.de here reports that German […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. September 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterHat-tip: Die kalte Sonne According to a new study, the expansion of offshore wind energy planned to date could lead to less electricity actually being produced at higher costs because, according to current planning, wind farms are taking the wind away from each other. The researchers from the Technical University of Denmark in Roskilde […]
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By P Gosselin on 9. September 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe green dream, with all its scenic beauty and nature conservation, has arrived in northern Germany. But now that green dream faces more obstacles. All is not so wunderbar when it comes to Germany’s wind power outlook. Germany’s Renewable Energy Sources Act, passed in 2000, was intended to ensure the generation of “green” electricity. […]
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By P Gosselin on 6. September 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterWood pellets. Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann calls it “the dumbest energy and environmental policy ever”. Now, finally, after years of being warned, Germany’s mainstream media are finally showing signs of waking up to it. Idiots and energy policy: Burning of “CO2-friendly” wood pellets driving mass European deforestation. Illustrative photo by P. Gosselin Germany’s flagship […]
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By P Gosselin on 31. July 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Die kalte Sonne (Translated/edited by P. Gosselin) In a guest article in the German DIE ZEIT, Rainer Moormann and Anna Veronika Wendland recently mentioned the subject of the nuclear phase-out. There is a replica of it at Erneuerbareenergien.de, written by Nicole Weinhold. In it the author puts forward the idea that a simultaneous […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe German online Business Insider here reports on just how climate (un)friendly electric cars really are. It concludes that e-cars in Germany are “far from being climate friendly”. As much of the public already suspects, the electricity coming out of the German outlets today is still largely produced by fossil fuel plants. And so […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitter German Coal Power Plants To Be Converted: To Burn Trees Millions of trees to be shipped from around the world to Europe to be burned as “green coal”. Image cropped from “Planet of the Humans” By Die kalte Sonne (Translated/edited by P. Gosselin) On May 2, 2020, we reported on the movie Burned. […]
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By P Gosselin on 14. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman online site Stromreport writes that since the year 2000 the average electricity price for private households has risen from 13.94 to 30.43 euro cents per kilowatt hour (2019). German electricity prices for households are among the highest worldwide. Image: Statista.com The price increase has little to do with demand or markets, but almost […]
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By P Gosselin on 22. May 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman public broadcasting Deutsche Welle (DW) here reports how Mexico has decided to end its transition the renewable energies, angering activists and investors. The move, DW reports, “is scaring off environmentalists and investors” and could be the “death knell for renewable energies.” Apparently President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had traveled to Oaxaca and saw […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. May 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitter War on windpark-blocking red kites? Authorities are offering a €1000 reward for information leading to solving 11 cases of dead red kite protected birds. Nine of the deaths were due to a long-banned poison. Protected red kites being poisoned in north Germany. Image: Thomas Kraft (ThKraft) – Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5 The German Presseportal.de […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. May 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterNesting red kite shot dead because of wind energy? By Die kalte Sonne (Text translated by P. Gosselin) Red kites have little chance against wind turbines. Image: Thomas Kraft (ThKraft) – Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5 Red kites and wind power just do go well together. These predatory birds can find good prey especially where farmers […]
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