German warmists get a much needed shot in the foot as watermelon-helmeted lawmakers follow a plan drawn up by Rube Goldberg:
The German government is engaged in increasingly heated negotiations with energy companies in an effort to stop them closing carbon-emitting power plants which have been rendered unprofitable by the national renewables policies.
Inkompetenz macht frei.
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Ontario look into the crystal ball this is your future. Lights that only work whenthe wind blows how brilliant!
I wonder how much of this Green German energy silliness ends up buried in the price tag of their exports. It would be interesting to find out if Kleen Krautism will damage say, their auto exports similarly to how unionization damaged ours. Pretty sure that Hyundai isn’t all that concerned with their carbon footprint at this point.
Stupid warmists …. they don’t even realize it’s not about controlling energy, it’s about controlling all of us …. then they won’t need much energy at all. Just so long as the elites are comfy, the rest of us can go to hell and pay the bills. We are heading for dark times, no pun intended.
“watermelon-helmeted lawmakers“…. In Germany? Holy Shiite! I know the Saskatchewan Roughrider fans are everywhere, but…. Holy Shiite!
40 Cents per kWH. If you cannnot afford it, too bad. Influenza, pneumonia, heat stroke, and frost bite are your future.
Your glorious Socialist Future!
Onward Comrades!
Torches, candles and wood heat are the carbon friendly future!
I have come to enjoy the spectacle of fools suffering for their foolishness.
Max, the big German manufacturers have been offshoring more and more of their production for years.
“Inkompetenz macht frei.” Now that is funny to someone whose second language is German.
As to the topic of this thread, it serves the Germans right for swallowing this green swill, now let them wallow in it.
A few weeks ago, while traveling by train from Kassel in the Teutorburg Forest to Heidelberg in the Black Forest, we noticed thousands of wind turbines covering and despoiling almost every forested hill top. There were beautiful valleys between the hills with tidy red tiled roofed villages and crop land. It was the same in Austria except that thousands of acres of cropland either had turbines planted on them or pads were being pored for new turbines. Talk about despoiling a beautiful countryside with almost useless wind turbines.
Interesting that you should bring that forward Ken.
Closer to home, while recently passing through that once proud conservative bastion (Alberta), Pincher Creek to be specific, I was shocked to see mile upon mile of those stupid bird blenders perched atop the vast valley ridges- about a third of them operating on a breezy day- what a blight to the landscape!
Closer to home, we’ve likewise polluted our wide-open spaces with a bunch of these monstrosities near Gull Lake, Sk.
On a road trip earlier this year, in Texas and Oklahoma, of all places, they’ve also apparently bought in to this warmist BS- windfarm after windfarm! Same thing near Minot, ND. Un-frickin-believable!
I guess it depends on which side of the debate has the ear of the voter. A couple more winters like the last one and wind power will be dead.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/06/germany-in-skeptical-turmoil-on-both-climate-and-windfarms/#more-56069
I note General Electric has developed a battery storage system to sit at the bottom of the large Windmills. I think the purpose is to reverse the electricity flow when there is no wind and turn the windmill generator into an electric motor.
In this way it will appear the great Windmill even spins when there is no wind. I guess the kw hours used will then be paid to the Windmill owners as a renewable energy gain or it will come out of some other taxpayer funded programme.
General Electric is good at doing that. Cheers;
Never fear, ladies and gentlemen—our Angie doesn’t want rotating blackouts in an election year (not in Germany, anyway), and will give the power companies whatever they need to keep the lights on, in the end. If necessary she’ll tap the banksters for a loan, and, because Angie does what the banksters tell her to do, she’ll get it.
The ECB and Bundesbank, along with Germany’s big private banks Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank (who would both have failed long since without ECB assistance), always take great pleasure in doing business with Angela Merkel, and want her kept around as long as it takes to foreclose on the rest of Europe, the better to put off a little longer having to explain to Oma why her pension cheque bounced or won’t buy a cup of coffee. Our Angie will win the election with no trouble.
cgh: You can’t spit in Transylvania without hitting a new German factory. Their business model, of course, is being able to pay Romanians bargain-basement wages.
Well of course we are all fortunate that CO2 isn’t ‘gassing the planet’ after all…
The minute Angela Merkel buys something new for her wardrobe, they will accuse her of being a “fashionista”!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”