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 […]
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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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By P Gosselin on 7. January 2024
Electric cars can lose over one third of the electricity just during charging, depending on the model. AI generated image Germany’s online Blackout News here reports: “Charging losses for electric cars ranges from 9.8% to 38.2%, depending on the model.” That means, on some models, nearly one third of the electricity to charge a lithium-ion […]
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By P Gosselin on 27. December 2023
Germany’s Blackout News here reports on how Germany’s move into renewable energies has gone from “a boom to crisis”. The policies of (worst ever) Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) are leading the German economy to disaster. Photo: public domain. It wasn’t long ago, when interest rates and inflation were low, and the economy and […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. December 2023
This site here reports that Oslo, Norway’s new electric buses didn’t fare very well during the recent cold. The capital city’s public transport ended up “paralyzed”. The buses were advertised to have a range of 250 km…but then reality hit! “Oslo’s brand new fleet of electric buses is not designed for these temperatures – their […]
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By P Gosselin on 22. November 2023
Never-ending green energy woes: high construction costs… uneconomical…”associated major economic risks” Source: westkueste100 Hydrogen will be the technology that will ultimately solve all the world’s energy woes, so claim those who are finally realizing that a lithium battery powered economy is a pipe dream after all. And, so must the green economy show go on. […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. November 2023
In an email, Czech physicist Lubos Motl warned claims of Net Zero being “cheap and easy” are naïve, “insane”. Globally, the costs would in fact be economically ruinous and explosive in terms of social cohesion. Here’s the excerpt of what he wrote (edited to remove names): Some people claim promoting Net Zero would be totally […]
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By P Gosselin on 5. November 2023
Even federal economics minister Robert Habeck (Greens) warns of a loss of industry threatening prosperity: From Blackout News “Industries are being lost, and that means not only the loss of employers and sectors, but also of an important part of our prosperity,” explained Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck at the presentation of his detailed “industrial […]
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By P Gosselin on 17. October 2023
Large electric batteries, like those used storing energy for electric cars and homes, are not showing a very good safety record as they are prone to fires and explosions. Today German site Blackout News here reports how one home in central Germany had an entire exterior wall blown out as a storage battery exploded last […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. September 2023
The “world’s dumbest energy policy” is getting a lot dumber: German power production plummets 11.4% in first half of 2023 Since Germany shut down its remaining nuclear power plants earlier this year, it’s no surprise the country’s electricity generation has slumped and is now more heavily dependent on foreign imports. Tichy’s Einblick here reports that […]
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By P Gosselin on 30. August 2023
New, internal combustion engine (ICE) cars are planned to be eliminated from German streets by 2030, when Germans will have to purchase electric vehicles when buying a new car. That’s what the government plans. But today Germany’s Blackout News site reports that there’s “a major problem with the trend of new car registrations.” It appears […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. August 2023
Germany’s so-called Energiewende is leading to lots of economic pain as energy prices are projected to keep rising until 2040. Some 20 years ago, the German Greens and Socialists, who were in power, promised green energies, primarily from wind and sun, would be cheap, plentiful and clean in the future. In 2004, then Environment Minister […]
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