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By Kenneth Richard on 25. March 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study affirms 0.3 m (12 inches) of ice buildup along the tip of a wind turbine’s 50-meters-long blades during a typical ice storm dramatically reduces the blades’ capacity to rotate – even in very windy conditions. The averaged power production loss induced by this ice accretion reaches up to 80%. Image Source: […]
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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 27. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitter Many “climate protection” policies promote the destruction of forests. Image: NASA (public domain). The climate alarmist Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) says climate protection policies are more than 5 times more expensive than they have to be. More trees are the way to go. Yet climate protection is […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. December 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterA huge success has been achieved for nature and species conservation in Germany, reports the Naturschutzinitiative e.V. (NI). This means installing wind parks in nature-sensitive areas will remain extremely difficult. RESULT: Endangered species and biotopes will remain protected. Red kites will now be less threatened – photo: Ingo Kühl/NI The notorious § 1 paragraph […]
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By P Gosselin on 8. December 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterGreen madness and environmental destruction 20 million square meters of 1000-year old “fairy tale” forest to be designated as an industrial wind park zone. “Approval procedure in final phase”! At Facebook, environmentalist Gero Lenhardt writes a desperate plea to rescue one of Germany’s most idyllic, fairy tale-like forests: the Reinhardswald located in the hilly […]
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By P Gosselin on 21. November 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterGermany began installing wind turbines in earnest some 20 years ago. Now that their lifetime has been exceeded, many are being ripped down. But there’s a big problem about what to do with the leftover carbon and glass-fibre reinforced blades. A recent report on ZDF German public television explains that currently there’s no plan […]
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By P Gosselin on 6. September 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterWood pellets. Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann calls it “the dumbest energy and environmental policy ever”. Now, finally, after years of being warned, Germany’s mainstream media are finally showing signs of waking up to it. Idiots and energy policy: Burning of “CO2-friendly” wood pellets driving mass European deforestation. Illustrative photo by P. Gosselin Germany’s flagship […]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 25. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterDue to the expansion of wind energy projects in the United States in the last decade, a conservative estimate for yearly bat fatalities from wind turbines ranges between 1.7 to 3.7 million. A new study suggests death numbers may be 4 to 7 times higher due to carcass search deficiencies. It is estimated that […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitter German Coal Power Plants To Be Converted: To Burn Trees Millions of trees to be shipped from around the world to Europe to be burned as “green coal”. Image cropped from “Planet of the Humans” By Die kalte Sonne (Translated/edited by P. Gosselin) On May 2, 2020, we reported on the movie Burned. […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 1. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterAn “especially worrying” new study finds 2,206 onshore wind, hydropower, and solar PV energy generation facilities have “already encroached on many of the world’s most important places for conserving biodiversity”, degrading 886 protected areas, 749 key biodiversity areas, and 40 distinct wilderness areas. Image Source: Rehbein et al., 2020 Even more concerning, the number of […]
Posted in Green Follies, Solar, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 22. May 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman public broadcasting Deutsche Welle (DW) here reports how Mexico has decided to end its transition the renewable energies, angering activists and investors. The move, DW reports, “is scaring off environmentalists and investors” and could be the “death knell for renewable energies.” Apparently President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had traveled to Oaxaca and saw […]
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By P Gosselin on 2. May 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterBurned – in the name of climate protection – How the US is destroying its forests and environment By Die kalte Sonne (Text translated by P Gosselin) A documentary from 2015 “Burned“ (free of charge 30 min online version here) goes very well with the often mentioned documentary “Planet Of The Humans“. Is wood […]
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