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By P Gosselin on 5. February 2025
By Frank Bosse Klimnachrichten here (Translated, edited by P. Gosselin) The scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is an oceanologist and studied physics before his specialist training. He is therefore familiar with thermodynamics and its 2nd law, which states that with every change of state, the “disorder” increases, also known as […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. November 2024
Germany’s online Blackout News here reports how the country, now facing a dire energy supply situation, urgently needs to return to nuclear energy. Symbol image. Photo: U.S. Department of Energy Germany phased out its entire fleet of nuclear reactors over the past years and hoped to rely on renewable energies, claiming they were cheaper and […]
Posted in Green Follies, Nuclear 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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. October 2022
By Robert Grünfeld, EIKE (Translated/edited by P. Gosselin) Af Jan Ainali – still picture out of File: Greta Thunberg i Bryssel.webm, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75565690 German talk show host Sandra Maischberger interviewed climate activist Greta Thunberg in her native Sweden. The interview aired on Wednesday. Many climate policy critics see Greta Thunberg (19) as a […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. September 2022
The Green New Deal in Europe is quickly turning into a House of Horrors One excellent site with all the late latest energy crisis developments in Germany and Europe is Blackout News here. Here are some of the more notable headlines of the past week: Europe’s largest aluminum plant cuts production by 22% due to […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. February 2022
Asia goes nuclear while Europe goes bust By Fred F. Mueller During the past few decades, a quiet but all the more important divergence has begun to evolve between Asia und Europe: their respective attitudes towards climate change and nuclear energy. In their crusade against what they perceive as a looming climate catastrophe, most European […]
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By P Gosselin on 25. November 2017
Spiegel science journalist Axel Bojanowski here interviewed James Hansen, the former director of NASA GISS and one of the most prominent warners of CO2 induced global warming. Former NASA GISS director James Hansen calls exit from nuclear energy “a huge mistake”. Photo: NASA – nasa.gov, (archived) In the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan […]
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By P Gosselin on 30. June 2017
President Donald Trump gave remarks at the “Unleashing American Energy” event. If there are still any lingering questions as to the president’s commitment to dumping the Paris Accord, they can now be laid to rest for good. In his remarks at an event also attended by both energy executives and trade unionists, the President described the […]
Posted in Climate Politics, IPCC, Nuclear energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. November 2016
As the reputed world leader in green energy policy, Germany plans to eliminate nuclear power as an energy source in the next 5 years. A 2011 decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022 has meant that renewables like wind and solar power are expected to swiftly take the place of nuclear energy on the German power […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. March 2015
It’s a good thing Germany still has a lot of conventional power supply from coal and nuclear on line. Otherwise the entire country would have blacked out this morning during the partial eclipse of the sun. Conventional fuel saved the day. As the following diagram depicts, there was almost no wind output from Germany’s 40 […]
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By P Gosselin on 18. February 2015
One of the biggest miscalculations that the global warming alarmists have made is claiming that global CO2 emissions must reach their peak by 2020 and then begin falling rapidly. If they don’t, there will be no chance of reaching the 2°C maximum warming target. Planetary catastrophe will ensue, the alarmists claim. British energy behemoth BP […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 8. October 2014
So much for Germany’s transformation to “green” energies. Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway) is the federal authority overseeing and regulating the German electrical power grid, among other networks. At its site it has a link to an expert assessment report that analyzes the needs of and risks to the German […]
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