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By P Gosselin on 10. March 2024
After vote in Brussels last Monday evening, a majority of the European Parliament favored a Commission proposal that would no longer automatically classify electric cars as climate-neutral vehicles. Image cropped here. In the proposal, the CO2 emissions of electric cars would depend on the electricity mix used to charge the car, meaning electric cars would […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. March 2024
When green energy ideology clashes with the laws of Engineering and physics… By KlimaNachrichten Editor Manfred Haferburg, power plant engineer, explains the problems of the German power grid in connection with the green energy transition at online site Achgut. The result is a very informative article. It is not primarily about blackouts due to a […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. February 2024
Blackout News: “EON chief warns of a cost explosion due to transition to green energies.” Blackout News here reports that there’s no end in sight for Germany’s self-inflicted energy crisis. Energy prices are expected to continue rising, thus posing a huge risk to industry. This is of course no surprise as Germany, driven by radical […]
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By P Gosselin on 25. February 2024
High cost, inconvenience, low range and battery issues continue to plague e-vehicles in Germany. Consumers not opting for e-cars. Currently sales of electric vehicles in Germany have stalled and the country is not even anywhere close to being on the sales trajectory to reach its 15 million vehicles target by 2030. Currently just over 1 […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. February 2024
Like an abusive husband, who beats his wife to make her love him Image: Freepik Today, especially in Germany, the socialist-green movement is failing miserably and plummeting in the polls – to record low levels. Desperate, socialist-green governments in Europe are now resorting to heavy-handed tactics to force citizens to “like” them again. Growing censorship, […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 18. February 2024
Planners and governments keep denying vulnerability. Europe is still considering massive solar energy plants along sun-rich North Africa in order to produce hydrogen gas that could be piped over the European mainland, despite having concluded 10 years ago that such projects wouldn’t pay off. In the latest push, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. February 2024
-1.6%! That’s how much Germany’s industrial production fell in December, 2023. It’s the seventh-straight month of decline as the country’s energy woes mount. One reason is reported by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports today :”Germany’s Industrial Production Falls For Seventh-Straight Month” in December 2023, far worse than expected. To underscore the seriousness, 2023’s industrial […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 4. February 2024
Germany’s energy crisis deepens further due to Biden’s halt of U.S. LNG projects. Germany is backed into a corner after over-reliance on green energy. The site of Germany LNG terminal, Wilhelmshaven, photographed in 2012. Later expanded in 2022. Image: RaBoe. CC BY-SA 3.0 de Germany has dug itself into an energy hole Due to the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 2. February 2024
Wood pellets are often viewed as an alternative, climate-friendly energy source, especially for heating. But an analysis shows this is not the case at all. CO2 emitted [kg]. Data source: German Ministry of the Environment Though it is claimed that the CO2 from burning biomass like trees remains in the natural carbon cycle, the CO2-absorbing […]
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By P Gosselin on 24. January 2024
Without fossil fuels,” we wouldn’t be able to feed the world”, distinguished scientist warns. We’ll be wrecking our lives the next decades.” British professor Angus Dalgleish, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Pathologists and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in an interview with Dr. John […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 23. January 2024
Energy poverty is spreading in Germany. Citizens, especially seniors, can no longer afford to heat their residences Blackout News reports on how German senior citizens, who, due to high energy prices, are being increasingly forced into a life of poverty and struggling to keep warm at home. “Many pensioners can no longer pay heating costs […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 16. January 2024
Germany’s greening economy is falling ever deeper into crisis Blackout News here reports: “Germany is currently in recession and the economic outlook is anything but positive. The economic upturn through the green transformation promised by Chancellor Olaf Scholz is unlikely to materialize in 2024.”Moreover, the Financial Times here reports: “Germany was the worst-performing major economy […]
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