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By P Gosselin on 28. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterUnsustainability in the name of “sustainability” Symbol photo. Copyright: Pierre Gosselin Lately we’ve been reporting on what many people are calling one of the greatest environmental felonies in Europe: the deforestation of the 1000-year old Reinhardswald, known as the “fairy tale forest”, in order to make way for largescale industrial wind parks to produce […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 23. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study finds “the total CO2 emissions will be much lower with continued use of the old but operational combustion car instead of buying a new electric one.” Image Source: Neugebauer et al., 2022 It has long been assumed that replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with electric vehicles (EV) will lead to […]
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By P Gosselin on 18. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe German state of Hesse has one of Europe’s largest contiguous and undisturbed forest areas: the Reinhardswald, also known as the “treasure house of European forests” or “Grimm’s fairytale forest”. The legal fight to rescue the treasured forest from windpark industrialization has begun. Though the mass environmental crime has already begun, conservationists are beginning to […]
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By P Gosselin on 14. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitter Leaked EU document on gas supply By Blackout News Russia has already suspended gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria because they refused to pay roubles. The same threatens all European countries. The EU is therefore asking countries to share gas if Russia stops supplying it. The Spanish newspaper El País has now published the […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterMeanwhile western countries are getting pummeled by inflation, shaky supply chains, economic pain. German energy site Blackout News here reports that Russia’s oil exports remain unfazed despite the embargos by western countries. “In the second month of the war on Ukraine, Russia exported more oil than a year earlier, despite the oil embargo, notes […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 2. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitter“Burning woody biomass increases atmospheric CO2 levels for decades. Burning forest biomass for power generation emits more CO2 per-unit of final energy than burning fossil fuels, including coal.” – Bloomer et al., 2022 Image Source: IGSD It is scientifically well known that (a) “the carbon emission from wood fuel is bigger by half than […]
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By P Gosselin on 22. April 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Josef Kowatsch Germany’s Energiewende (transition to green energies) has failed, says Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, to strong applause in this lecture https://eike-klima-energie.eu/2022/04/20/ Why? According to the coalition agreement, the coalition government wants to expand alternative energies s even more, but at the same time also build 50 new gas-fired power plants to stabilize […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. April 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterStefan Rahmstorf has problems with his sources By Die kalte Sonne Translated by NoTricksZone Stefan Rahmstorf, is just as we know him. In a new Spiegel column, the climate researcher from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research attempts a sweeping blow – but apparently without really checking the numerous sources he links to. […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. April 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterVW may have developed a major hydrogen breakthrough…cars could travel 2000 km on a single tank of fuel. VW often rails against hydrogen cars, but the German automaker is reported to have filed a patent that could mean a major breakthrough for hydrogen powered vehicles, reports Patrick Freiwa of the German Kreiszeitung here. Though […]
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By P Gosselin on 2. April 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterGreen hydrogen powered dirigible could revolutionize long haul cargo transport worldwide. More than 80 years ago, the Hindenburg Zeppelin LZ 129 exploded and crashed as it approached landing at Lakehurst New Jersey on May 6, 1937. The behemoth 250-meter long vessel rigid airship had been in service for just under a year. At the […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. April 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe nuclear industry association is calling for an extension of operating lifetimes. But in Germany, there is a lack of political will, and the operators are profiting from the green energy business. The damage is paid by the citizen. By Holger Douglas Hat-tip: EIKE There could not be a better symbolic image: the demolition […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. March 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitter Once welcome with open arms, wind turbines are falling out of favor over much of Germany since swaths of treasured forests have been cleared away to make way for massive industrial wind parks. Progress and awareness: Developments such as these are increasingly becoming unwelcome in Germany, especially in ancient forests. Symbol image: Vernunftkraft.de. […]
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