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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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By P Gosselin on 17. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterNDR 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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAccording 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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 9. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman political analysis and commentary site Freie Welt here has an article on how millions of Germans are increasingly unable to afford electric power. Germany’s Energiewende ‘ risks shorting out as millions struggle to pay their electricity bills. Image cropped here. While a number of commodities such as electronics, electrical goods and computing power […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 8. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAn empirical analysis using 2005-2015 data from 15 EU countries indicates that as more renewable energies (i.e., solar PV) are deployed, energy costs increase, household poverty risks rise, and incomes decline. Image Source: Pereira et al., 2019 In contrast to the negative consequences of switching from fossil fuels to renewables, Dr. Tadesse Weldu Teklu […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 6. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterOne of the fathers of the German environmental movement, Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, comments on models, Friday school strikes and the environmental destruction by green energies. =============================== Ladies and Gentlemen, New climate model is useless Over 80(!) authors, led by Jean Christophe Golaz of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have recently developed a new climate model […]
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By P Gosselin on 6. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman wind park protest group MenschNatur posted here explaining how even adding more wind and solar capacity does not make Germany’s energy supply any more reliable, but in fact may even make it less so. Time and again the proponents of the Energiewende (transition to green energies) promote the idea that we must invest […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman WirtschaftsWoche (WiWo) journalist Ferdinand Knauss comments here how Germany’s energy policy amounts to “nature anihilation” through climate protection and warns of the environmental madness of green energy obsession. In his commentary, Knauss writes that if we wish to understand climate and environmental protection, we need to “look back into the history of the […]
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