By P Gosselin on 17. January 2023
New law: by 2032, almost every German household will be monitored by smart meters. Image credit: Smart Grid Awareness It’s unavoidable: history shows that as technology develops, governments use it to control and monitor the masses. The latest are smart electricity meters. But how could you not want them? There’s an energy crisis after all, […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 7. January 2023
Germany continues to intensify draconian measures to cut energy consumption… Germans struggling to keep warm. (Symbol image, cropped here). As if the costs for heating in Germany weren’t expensive enough. Already addled with high natural gas and heating oil costs, German residential building owners are now being required to replace gas furnaces that are 30 […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 4. January 2023
Hybrid vehicles prone to catch fire…difficult to extinguish Symbol image. It’s safe to say most people are compelled to buy an hybrid or electric car because they wish to reduce their impact on the environment and climate. Unfortunately, many don’t seem to be aware of an electric car’s poor lifetime carbon budget and wind up […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Fire |
By P Gosselin on 31. December 2022
Is Tesla falling apart? Elon Musk’s dream company is becoming everything except sweet… Electric cars are the technology of the future and by 2030, combustion engine cars won’t even be sold in some countries, we are told. Reality collides with dream Yet, the inconvenient economic and technical realities of electric cars refuse to go away: […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 30. December 2022
Symbol photo. Grafenrheinfeld power plant, Germany – 2013, Avda – Own work. CC BY-SA 3.0 Italy is planning an energy U-turn reports, the Berliner Morgenpost: “So while Germany is saying goodbye to the use of nuclear energy, the technology is making a comeback in Italy, where people turned away from it almost 40 years ago. This is […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 13. December 2022
Monthly newsletter from Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated, edited by P. Gosselin) ================================ Dear Ladies and Gentlemen The most exciting question in terms of energy policy in the coming months is just how intense is the winter going to be. The German DWD Weather Service reassured the German government and public in November: “The German Weather […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 7. December 2022
Energy policy is sliding Germany ever closer to failure and disaster…”more CO2 emitted per kilowatt hour in electricity generation than India or China”… “landed in 127th place out of 147 countries in the ranking.” Earlier this year, even though the natural gas supply from Russia had been stopped, Germany remained hell bent on moving ahead […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 25. November 2022
China continues to barrel ahead with the new construction, expansion of coal fired power plants In Germany, while radical groups of climate-crazies like Extinction Rebellion and Last Generation are gluing themselves to road and airport tarmac surfaces to rescue the planet from the myth that is the climate catastrophe, China is planning to double the […]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Pollution |
By P Gosselin on 18. November 2022
Skyrocketing fossil fuel energy prices are are driving the deforestation of Europe as citizens try to keep warm It’s easy to argue that the “green” movement is causing much more environmental harm than good. High energy costs are leading to poverty, which in turn leads to less investment in environmental protection and nature conservation. Biodiversity-rich […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 15. November 2022
Germany’s Blackout News here reports that not only is Germany’s energy supply faltering profoundly, but so is its wind industry as well, reporting that it is “sliding into a crisis”. Gloomy outlook also for Germany’s wind energy industry. Photo by P. Gosselin Wind energy is supposed to step in and play a key role in […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 1. November 2022
As German energy prices and inflation skyrocket, in large part due to the country’s green energies folly, food inflation at supermarkets reached an all-time high in October 2022. Milk 67% higher in one year Hat-tip: Pleiteticker.de Germany’s Consumer Price Index for October reached the highest level than at any time since data collection began! Compared […]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 28. October 2022
It’s Blackout News Friday. Polish leader calls Germany’s energy policy “a curse” and “a fiasco” as the country’s economy continues to crumble in the wake of its energy policy debacle. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gets criticized by Polish leader Mateusz Jakub Morawiecki. Image: Krystian Maj, CC BY 3.0 PL, via Wikimedia Commons Blackout News.de here […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
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