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By P Gosselin on 18. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe German state of Hesse has one of Europe’s largest contiguous and undisturbed forest areas: the Reinhardswald, also known as the “treasure house of European forests” or “Grimm’s fairytale forest”. The legal fight to rescue the treasured forest from windpark industrialization has begun. Though the mass environmental crime has already begun, conservationists are beginning to […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 2. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitter“Burning woody biomass increases atmospheric CO2 levels for decades. Burning forest biomass for power generation emits more CO2 per-unit of final energy than burning fossil fuels, including coal.” – Bloomer et al., 2022 Image Source: IGSD It is scientifically well known that (a) “the carbon emission from wood fuel is bigger by half than […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 21. April 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterOf California’s 23 vulnerable bird species studied (barn owls, golden eagles, road runners, yellow-billed cuckoos…), scientists have found 11 are now experiencing at least a 20% decline in their population growth rates because wind turbines and solar panels are killing them and/or destroying their limited-range habitat. California’s mild-winter Mediterranean climate is home to some […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. April 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe nuclear industry association is calling for an extension of operating lifetimes. But in Germany, there is a lack of political will, and the operators are profiting from the green energy business. The damage is paid by the citizen. By Holger Douglas Hat-tip: EIKE There could not be a better symbolic image: the demolition […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. March 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitter Once welcome with open arms, wind turbines are falling out of favor over much of Germany since swaths of treasured forests have been cleared away to make way for massive industrial wind parks. Progress and awareness: Developments such as these are increasingly becoming unwelcome in Germany, especially in ancient forests. Symbol image: Vernunftkraft.de. […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. March 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitter German environmental destruction: 200-meter tall industrial wind turbines less than 1000-meters from a residential area get approved, forest gets cleared, popular hiking route gets converted into an access road. Deforestation to make way for Industrial wind turbines. Symbol photo by P. Gosselin The German city of Hagen, located in North Rhine Westphalia, approved […]
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By P Gosselin on 22. March 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterGermany is saying “auf Wiedersehen” to plentiful and cheap energies and welcoming tight supplies and rationing. Unless they radically change course, German policymakers will soon be closing the remaining nuclear power plants by the end of the year and coal-fired power plants will be phased out over the coming 15 years. To make matters […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. March 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe inflation rate in Germany is expected to be +5.1% in February 2022…powered by spiraling energy prices. “Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it’s out, you can hardly get it back in again.” – Karl Otto Pöhl, German economist, former President of the Bundesbank. Late last year when it became clear to everyone else that […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. February 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterAs energy and electricity prices surge — in large part due to Germany’s messy transition to renewable energies — electric car owners are getting the price shock of their lives at e-car charging stations. Munich e-car owners to getting zapped by charging station price shocks. This is especially true in the Bavarian city of […]
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By P Gosselin on 9. February 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterGermany’s power supply, once mostly made up of a mixture of coal and nuclear power, used to be among the most stable and affordable in the world. Power outages were rare and grid interventions were infrequent. German consumer electricity prices shot up to 36.19 euro-cents per kilowatt-hour while blackouts threaten. Greens and socialists then […]
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By P Gosselin on 4. February 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterGermany’s government has not only taken a wrecking ball to the nation in terms of COVID, but also to its biodiversity in its self-deluded bid to protect the climate. Clearing of 2000 hectares in one of the last undisturbed forests has begun as State of Hesse issues the construction approval for massive industrial wind […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. January 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterAnother case of a Green dreams clashing with bitter reality It’s always entertaining to watch green activists promote their ideas as being brilliant – so much so that the rest of us are often just too stupid to understand them – and then watch them piss and moan about how lousy these ideas and […]
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