If the green movement is going to continue to push the idea that we can survive without fossil fuels, they have some significant math problems to overcome first. Unless, of course, they eventually dispense with the need for backup power sources entirely.
My Report presents two different calculations of the energy storage requirement for Germany in a world of a wind/solar grid and no fossil fuels allowed (both of which calculations have been previously covered on this blog). One of the calculations, by a guy named Roger Andrews, came to a requirement of approximately 25,000 GWh; and the other, by two authors named Ruhnau and Qvist, came to a higher figure of 56,000 GWh.
…the amount of energy storage that Germany is planning for 2031 is between 0.016% and 0.036% of what it actually would need.
” … they have some significant math problems to overcome first.”
Is it anything Mann or Suzuki could give them a hand with?
{spit} Progs can’t do math…
According to Suzuki, batteries will multiply like fruit flies
“…the amount of energy storage that Germany is planning for 2031 is between 0.016% and 0.036% of what it actually would need…”
…and that’s how you can tell its a scam. They forgot the rest of the sentence, I guess.
Just accept that this is large scale theft, and then make plans accordingly.
those numbers would represent the percentage of the population that would servive that experiment.
Yes.. Its batshit crazy.. So crazy that I say let them do it.. F@#$ it, I may or may not survive but either way I wont have to listen to the green idiots anymore when all is said and done.. You failed spectacularly..
Oh I can hear it now…the mantra “math is racist” and other fatuous twaddle.
They are going to wish, the hadn’t deep sixed their nuclear power plants. Hey try rebuilding reactors using thorium.
Alternatively, brown lignite coal is okay for “greening the planet” temporarily…with the proverbial East German “kachelofen”
Reportedly, their current LNG stockpile is at 96% storage capacity, with LNG ships at anchor to get them through the winter season.
And if the the political class run out of russian national enemy gas, and they get another winter like 1945, there are always some trees near “Unter den Linden” in Berlin to warm up the fireplace. 🙂
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st St Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
The “Essential People” will always have power, heat, and cooling. They will always have their private jets, and motorcades of limousines and SUVs. They will make shows of solidarity with the working peoples/ underclass/ proletariat by turning off the HVAC to the legislative chambers and public areas, but never to their own personal offices, caucus rooms, and other behind the scenes support areas.
It will be Potemkin Ecological Solidarity.
Also: The definition of Essential will not include Hospitals, Nursing Homes, or normal peoples’ houses.
possibly.. but if the workers don’t survive, then the infrastructure will fail, so all those luxuries the elites rely on will be gone.. people will in the main,die from dirty water. without running water plants disease will run rampant. i can’t see joe biden,nancy pelosy,etc boiling rain water.
The calculation includes an assumption that the population and its use of energy will go unchanged. There will be far fewer people. Those remaining will find they are “allowed” to do far less than used to.
It takes a special level of stupid to think man can live without “fossil” fuels.
Your mistake is in thinking they intend to let us live. The whole “Green New Deal” thing is so nonsensical, like somebody trying to push perpetual motion machines. If somebody’s trying to sell you a perpetual motion machine, don’t assume he’s ignorant of the basic laws of physics. He’s just assuming you are.
New math invented in the 1950s – use pumped storage to time shift nuclear electricity generation from night to daytime at Cruachan in Scotland: “Despite the use of some rainwater, Cruachan is not a net generator of electricity: it uses more energy for pumping water and spinning its turbines than it generates.”