Just a few years ago, no party dared to express doubts over the Energiewende (Germany’s transition to green energies), or to question it for fear of being accused of environmental blasphemy and treason. But as the technical and economic problems of the Energiewende become ever more glaring, people and politicians are now speaking up.
One Germany engineering professor, Dr. Ing. Hans-Günter Appel, is now asking if the project “is near the end”
Energiewende MUST continue until Germany is 100% “green” and “renewable”. Whatever it costs. And hopefully it continues the energy price spiral up up up! … until every (ewwww)-consumer in Germany is bankrupted by Energy Poverty. Then there will be NO MORE consumerism, and Gaia will start healing. The Government MUST take-away every Deutschmark of disposable income, and destroy every trace of Capitalism! Bwaaa hahahah ha ha ha ha !!!!!
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Wind needs large cell battery storage to be viable. Highly intelligent people (i.e. – NOT journalists or politicians) have been pursuing this for centuries to no avail. Large cell battery technology has not changed for over 100+ years and won’t until there is a major, earth-shaking physics or chemistry innovation (think of E=mc^2 earth-shaking). Lithium-ion cells are quaint and sleek for cell phones and RC cars (even big RC cars like the really crappy Teslas), but not for 1000’s of MW’s. Lead acid batteries still rule the world as large power storage sources and it ain’t gonna change anytime soon. Even if lithium-ion batteries were comparable to lead-acid as a large energy storage source, there’s not enough lithium in the world to power a 3rd world hellhole like Pyongyang for 2 minutes when the windmills stop turning. However, with lead-acid batteries you could power Boise, ID for a day or two if the wind died (but you’d need nearly the entire earth’s mineable lead for this feat). However, there’s no enough lead in the earth for lead-acid batteries to power a city like Toronto for 24 hours if the wind stopped. This wind “green energy” is all a ruse and the modern P.T. Barnum, a.k.a. Elon Musk, is laughing all the way to the bank.
In a logical universe, there would be a suggestion to spend a huge amount of money to build supercomputers that would be capable of predicting the climate in 10 years, then 20 years. If the year 10 to year 20 predictions were showing decent accuracy in comparison with the actual weather conditions,then it would be time to spend a lot of money inventing a safe super battery to store so called green energy.
At year twenty five with all the money spent, the battery perfected, the long ago predictions in synch with actual weather, it would be time to determine if dangerous Globull Warming was real or fake. Obviously it was fake. That’s why the last step to be taken in any serious strategy, throwing up windmills and other nonsense was done first by the fakers solely to impress the ignorant and the gullible.
Ontario is doing its best to emulate Germany. Soon there will be no businesses left that aren’t subsidized. Isn’t that what Ayn Rand warned about.
Ontario’s Wynne and company love the monstrous wind turbines/bird killers/eyesores along shorelines. Thye allow them to give away surplus electricity while charging obscene rates for electricity.
Oh, Madam Wynne has given us a cut in rates but that will result in more debt to be paid for by future generations. It’s a nice gesture when an election is looming, expect more red bucks to come flying out of Queen’s Park to woo the “what’s in it for me” voters.
Even German engineering can’t make green energy projects work.