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By P Gosselin on 7. January 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterGermany 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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. December 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterPrivate daily showers to become a luxury for the privileged and wealthy in Germany? “What if we showered/bathed only once a week?” You won’t shower any more, and you’ll be happy, German ZDF broadcaster suggests. Image cropped from ZDF kugelzwei. What the BBC is to Great Britain, are what the WDR and […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. December 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterGermany is desperately fighting for every kilowatt-hour of energy…blames consumers for supply shortfalls! Here’s a winning political strategy the German government is using: Just blame the voters for the problems you’ve created. If their mastermind green plans don’t work, it’s the citizens’ fault! Germany energy site Blackout News here reports that this […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. December 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterGermany’s gas reserves are emptying at record speed: 1% per day as the current wind/solar energy lull means more gas gets burned for electricity, heating. Image: cropped here. Pleiteticker.de here reports how Germany’s natural gas reserves “are emptying at record speed” because wind and solar power have been on the scarce side […]
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By P Gosselin on 14. December 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterWind parks threaten to change Germany into an industrial wasteland and future junkyard that will stand as a monument to the greatest environmental folly of all time. As Germany and Europe race ahead to eliminate fossil fuels and cut off their gas supplies, plans are being drawn up to reduce the hurdles […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. December 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterMonthly 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: […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. December 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterMajor German steel plant threatened with closure due to green energies transition… German site pleiteticker.de here reports on one of the latest victim’s of the green energy’s debacle in Germany as the fourth-largest steel producer is now seriously threatened with closure. Much of Germany’s industrial bas been hard hit by the skyrocketing […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. December 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterEnergy 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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 29. November 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterFive-fold increase in energy prices – €400,000 per year – forces historically located brewery, hotel and restaurant to close Germany’s Pleiteticker here, which reports daily on the wave of insolvencies moving across Germany that have arisen due to the excruciating high energy prices throttling the country, reports today on on how one […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 21. November 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterIn ‘a call against ignorance and neglect’, researchers expose the massacre of bat populations inflicted by wind turbines in Germany. Per a new study, there were 209 bats slaughtered in a span of 2 months at 3 studied wind turbine sites in Germany. This amounts to about “70 casualties per turbine.” (These […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. November 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterBack to the 19th century…climate-crazed political leader: Washcloths and heating just one room are enough… Since Germany put itself on the path to de-energize by throttling energy production and creating high prices, some German leaders lately have offered creative ways of dealing with the resulting crisis, among them: advising people to prepare […]
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By P Gosselin on 18. November 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterSkyrocketing 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 […]
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