By P Gosselin on 30. July 2023
UPDATE: “The burning freighter has arrived at its new temporary anchorage after a risky transport along the Dutch Wadden Sea islands. This was announced by the water authority in The Hague on Monday. The new, less dangerous anchorage is about 16 kilometres north of the island of Schiermonnikoog,” Germany’s NIUS.de here reports. A major North […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. July 2023
As Europe adventurously moves to wean itself off fossil fuels, more and more plans are being made to fill the electricity supply gap with wind energy. But one major UK wind project illustrates how they are economically risky as the economy teeters. Symbol photo. Image: P. Gosselin Blackout News here reports that Swedish energy giant […]
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By P Gosselin on 14. July 2023
“There is no more harmful way of generating energy than with wind turbines,” Rudolf Hammer tells AUF 1 journalist Sabine Petzl. Microbiologist, biochemist and professional engineer Rudolf Hammer warns that changing over to wind and solar energy is not a clean way to produce energy. Screenshot AUF 1. As Germany and Austria rush to wean […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 7. July 2023
Germany has gone from being an electricity exporter to being an importer. Germany’s powerful environmental movement not only vilified fossil fuels, but also nuclear power. So much so, in fact, that Germany has shut down its entire fleet of nuclear power plants over the recent years. Moreover, Germany plans to exit all fossil fuel power […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 4. July 2023
Mobility risks becoming affordable ONLY TO THE RICH, while the poor will become prisoners in their 15-minute cities AI image by dall e German site Inside Digial.com here reports how electric cars have the “big problem” of being “simply too expensive”, are “only for the rich” and “out of reach for most motorists”. No wonder […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. June 2023
Multimillion dollar solar project gets reduced to a heap of toxic rubble by one single hail storm. The Scottsbluff, Nebraska 5.2 MW Community Solar project was part of the NPPD’s Sunwise program that consisted of an array has over 14,000 solar panels. It’s reported that it had been put into operation in 2019. Surely the project […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. June 2023
Those who refuse to learn by reading will end up learning by feeling. Great Britain is finding out that going without coal power is a lot easier said than done. They don’t work well in the winter either. Photo: P. Gosselin Summer temperatures in the UK have boosted the demand for electricity, and so the […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. June 2023
E-cars have a much higher risk of losing their charge, getting stranded on German traffic jam-plagued autobahns. So far the only solution is the (internal combustion engine) tow truck The online Karlsruher Insider here reports on another woe e-car driving Germans are experiencing, especially on the highways: dead batteries. Germany’s highways, known as autobahns, are […]
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By P Gosselin on 31. May 2023
Countless wind turbines…Northern Germany drought may in part be caused by efforts to prevent drought (climate change)! More wind parks means less wind, which means less precipitation, which in turn means more drought and warmer temperatures. Image: P. Gosselin German online Reichschuster.de here reports on Gerd Ganteför, a German professor of experimental physics who taught […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. May 2023
Oil and gas are already planned… Since the Socialists and Greens took over power in Germany a year and half ago, the government has announced one ban after the other. Wood heat may be the next heat source to be banned from homes in Germany as verbot-orgy expands. Image: P. Gosselin It’s becoming clear that […]
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By P Gosselin on 14. May 2023
As heat pumps become the latest trend, so is their theft. And because they are installed outdoors, insurance companies refuse to cover the losses. Swiss site Tichy’s Einblick here reports on how police and consumer advocates are warning homeowners heat pumps are being stolen and that often aren’t insured because they are not not secured […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. May 2023
Plastering the landscape with wind turbines for producing renewable energy may lead to regional drought. Germany has so far installed over 30,000 wind turbines, which is about 1 every 11 sq. km. Plans are calling for doubling or even tripling wind power capacity. But this may be detrimental as new studies show that wind farms […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Drought and Deserts |
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