By P Gosselin on 26. February 2022
Before their approval, largescale projects in Germany – almost without exception – have to be studied to determine their impacts on the surrounding environment. This step seems to be ignored for North Sea wind farms. Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne. Wind farms are altering the North Sea Atmospheric wakes extending from the bottom to the top […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Oceans, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 4. February 2022
Germany’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 park. […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. January 2022
Wind turbines do not reduce surface warming. They enhance it. Wind power expansion is thought to be “green,” reducing CO2 emissions and consequent surface warming. But a new study (Qin et al., 2022) affirms the warming “saved” by emissions mitigation is easily exceeded by the direct surface warming from turbine-atmosphere interactions. In assessing of the […]
Posted in Green Follies, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 12. December 2021
Germany’s coalition agreement and the 2% target for wind energy By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Text translated/edited by P. Gosselin) After the phase-out of nuclear energy at the end of 2023, the coalition agreement aims to bring forward the phase-out of coal, “Ideally, this already would be achieved by 2030“. To this end, renewable energies are […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. November 2021
Commentary by Fred F. Mueller [Germany] When looking at the current frenzy around the climate rescue event COP 26 in Glasgow, one can only get scared. Not because of our climate, which doesn’t care about the whole hype, but because of the proposed hysteria-driven radical measures. Leading to a humanitarian catastrophe The whole CO2 hypothesis […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 6. August 2021
Dystopian nature protection….500 wind turbines in state forests, millions of tons of concrete and steel…deforestation, permanently destroyed biotopes. A large part of southwestern Germany’s idyllic natural landscape is about to be industrialized by 1000 “environmentally friendly” wind turbines. ===================================== Germany faces an ecological dystopia. Image: Windwahn. How wind power endangers Germany’s nature and the health […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 15. July 2021
A new study warns that “a massive expansion of impervious surfaces” is an inevitable consequence of having electric vehicles reach a 40% share of citizens’ driving needs. A land area the size of Croatia (in the European Union) or West Virginia (in the United States) must be completely covered with wind turbines to meet EV-charging […]
Posted in Emissions, Green Follies, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 15. May 2021
Germany’s Minister of Finance, Olaf Scholz, signals the days of life’s amenities for the masses are coming to an end. All necessary to avert dangerous climate change. Flying will be a thing of the rich. On April 29th, Germany’s Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe ruled that the country’s 2019 Climate Protection Act did not go far […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 10. April 2021
From the Black Forest to the Blighted Forest…a turbine every 1400 meters… The German state of Baden-Württemberg plans to build 1000 wind turbines – many of which would end up blighting the once idyllic Black Forest. Climate insanity: Bleak future for Baden-Württemberg’s forests as plans are made to chop through them to make way for 1000 […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 7. April 2021
Looming “massive power outage”? Another signal that the German Energiewende (transition to green energies) is not working out are actions and comments recently coming from the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture, as reported 2 days ago in a newspaper: (Hat-tip: Misaki – im Widerstand) “Emergency plan for the food supply. Berlin. The Federal Government […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. January 2021
More than 400 cows have died mysteriously since a wind park was built near a herd in 2012. Local residents also suffering health issues: “permanent fatigue, muscle aches, headaches, insomnia” Earlier we wrote about the adverse health impacts of wind turbines and on humans and animals, read here and here. Also search NTZ zone using […]
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By P Gosselin on 8. December 2020
Green 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 region […]
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