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By P Gosselin on 4. May 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterTesla “Semi” truck not approved in Australia By AR Göhring (EIKE) Did you know that TESLA also manufactures an e-truck? But Australia now refused to approve the “Semi”. We recently reported on the Nikola company’s hydrogen truck. Engineers and other experts have doubts about the concept because the extremely volatile gas requires significantly more […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. April 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman coal phaseout – lasted only 8 days By Blackout News (Translated, edited by P. Gosselin) Due to the government mandated coal phase-out, 11 coal-fired power plants with a total capacity of 4.7 GW were shut down on January 1, 2021. But the coal phase-out ended up lasting only 8 days, after which several […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. April 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterFrom the Black Forest to the Blighted Forest…a turbine every 1400 meters… The German state of Baden-Württemberg plans to build 1000 wind turbines – many of which would end up blighting the once idyllic Black Forest. Climate insanity: Bleak future for Baden-Württemberg’s forests as plans are made to chop through them to make way for […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. April 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterLooming “massive power outage”? Another signal that the German Energiewende (transition to green energies) is not working out are actions and comments recently coming from the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture, as reported 2 days ago in a newspaper: (Hat-tip: Misaki – im Widerstand) “Emergency plan for the food supply. Berlin. The Federal […]
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By P Gosselin on 31. March 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterHey Hans, how’s that Energiewende working out for ya? Germany’s Energiewende faces bleak future if government does wake up to harsh realities, new Audit Report finds. Image: P. Gosselin. A new German government audit report warns that the Energiewende is exploding costwise, and that there is a real danger of electricity shortfalls…”a danger for […]
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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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