29 Replies to “The Return of Coal”

  2. There use to be Industrial Safety quizzes where you spot the hazard in the picture.

    “As of December 2018, Germany doesn’t have any domestic hard coal mining left. Instead, coal is imported from Russia (50%), the United States (17%), Australia (13%) and Colombia (6%), followed by Poland, Canada and South Africa (2021 data).”

    https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/coal-germany

    1. Lützerath was sitting on 600 million tons of lignite… the worst kind of coal.. and probably what they will be using at the newly reopened power plants

  3. L – It would be appropriate for Green Party politicians and voters be obliged to dig
    this winters coal supply themselves using a pick and shovel.

    I noticed the article did not mention the shortage of cheap, reliable natural gas
    from Russia was stopped due to the German politicians decision.

    Then 2 of Germany’s NATO “allies” decided to blow up Nordstream 2 North Sea
    pipeline. This in order to prevent Germany’s citizens/businesses from reversing
    the decision. Though doing so could have prevented: their nation from going into
    a major recession, w/inflation rates that are impoverishing seniors et al., and high
    energy costs that are driving manufacturing from shutting down or leaving Germany
    for China and the U.S. of A. Possibly, never to return.

    As the 4th largest economy in the world and the largest in the E.U. , the health of the E.U. nations economies depend on German productivity, which subsidizes the less productive nations. A weaker Germany also means NATO Europe’s budget total will shrink, too.

    As E.U. nations economies can no longer support their 3rd world immigrant communities
    high standard of living, which they’ve become accustomed to. Will civil unrest increase markedly, in one E.U. nation after another.

    Will Germany and the E.U. and the U.K. recover from the growing malaise or is it the
    tipping point, as once happened to the classic civilizations of ancient Rome and Greece?

    As once free and prosperous western nations embrace totalitarianism and crush free
    speech, the future becomes murky. On the other hand, if German’s corrupt political
    and Green elite were found floating in the North Sea. Asked who was responsible for this.
    The Germans could blame it on the Pied Piper of Hamlin.

    1. the German government is funding German NGOs that are operating boats in the Med to “rescue” migrants from Africa…

      Maybe one day we all can visit the south coast of Germany

  4. I wonder if they’ll also be bringing humble back on line.

    They’ve proven they can wag the moral finger and tsk, tsk; can they say mea culpa, my bad?

    1. That gave me a chuckle, Steve E.

      Can they say mea culpa? H-E-DOUBLE-TOOTHPICKS NO!

      It’ll be “Of course we are 100% right about e-e-e-v-i-l coal. It’s just the timing for eliminating coal is off a bit. Since we’re forced to use coal, the oceans will boil and WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE in 2094 instead of 2100.”

      BTW, for the past fifty or so years, we’ve only had 10 years to “Save The Planet®”. Perhaps the timing is just a wee bit off on that one, too.

      Two rules about apocalyptic predictions that the current crop of brainwashed kiddies haven’t learned:

      1) Never predict the apocalypse to come in your lifetime. If you’re dead and the apocalypse hasn’t arrived by your predicted date, no one will even remember you made the prediction.

      But so long as you’re alive, you can still claim, “It’s coming! Just you wait and see.” And if the apocalypse does come in your lifetime, you can always say your timing was off just a wee bit.

      2) See Rule #1

  5. The west needs to have a serious talk about green energy.. Not every place is going to be able to fall back on coal..
    Obviously, if and when shortages happen it will be the rural people who get left out in the cold..

    They will take this as an act of treason and all bets will be off.. Rightfully so..

    1. Wasn’t there a propane shortage a few years ago that affected eastern Ontario and Quebec?

      should have started preparing for the next one a few years ago

      1. JD – they did and – as I recall – Alberta mobilized tank cars to send the needed supplies eastward. Not that there was any gratitude for said supplies.

  7. Well at least we’ll still have dung fires to fall back on.

    Oh wait, they’re getting rid of the cows, too.

    You’ll know you’ve hit bottom when they declare a national emergency over a shortage of dung.

  8. Ontario was grinding hardwood near stestmarie to burn in german coal plants. A greenie was trying 5 years ago to explain that burning trees was better than burning coal

  9. The eurotrash are all still dependent on Russia for energy resources in one form or another. They are sending Poutin $ to finance a war they all oppose… Not that there is anything wrong with that (sarc).

    The Germans have it coming. Merkel sold Germany to her old stasi buddy Vlad. Then in an unnecessary act of virtue signalling shut down their nuclear capacity. A stroke of ‘really bad luck’ took out the Nordstream pipeline.

    I read the locals have taken their axes to the forest in order to procure a supply of winter wood. Good times.

    1. The Euros are not against the war in Ukraine, they are funding and supplying it.

  10. Coulda had some sweet Dino LNG from Alberta. Hehe. I’m probably enjoying this show more than I should be at my age, but damn it’s hilarious watching commies kick themselves in the nuts and then wondering why their balls hurt.

  11. Notice Germany is not restarting their Nuclear Power Plants? The same Carbon Emissions Free power plants they foolishly shut down these last few years?

    All it would take is three or four flat bed semi trailer trucks with shipping boxes of fuel stacked six feet high, and they have enough reactor fuel to run a 1,000 MW power plant at 100% for two years.

    Two problems. First, they have no political willingness to admit they were wr–, wro—, wroong! The politicians cannot admit they made a mistake. Second and most important, they lost their spot in the fuel fabrication queues. It will take over a year to acquire enough enriched uranium raw fuel materials and then find a vendor with enough capacity to fabricate the very, very specific fuel designs that the closed reactors require.

    1. The truth is much worse. The German Greens were infiltrated by the KGB in the early 1970s to turn them in an antinuclear direction. The purpose explicitly was to make Germany an importer of Russian oil and gas. The motivation is that the USSR produced nothing that anyone else wanted. Except oil and gas.

      Ronald Reagan publicly kicked them where it hurts about their stupidity. The USSR went after West Germany, because in the NATO alliance, Germany WAS the weakest link. It was easy to corrupt and turn German Chancellors like Gerhard Schroeder. Russia duly rewarded him for his service to Russia after he stepped down as German Chancellor in 2005.

      The success of this intelligence operation is why Yuri Andropov was picked to be Brezhnev’s successor. And Yuri in turn worked for his lackey the incompetent Gorbachev to succeed him.

      1. The world supply of urainuum needs to be considered. I am not aware of statistics, but would guess it is not in unlimited supply

  12. Kate, I hope this isn’t too risque…

    I heard this earlier today, and it’s so appropriate to the German situation:

    “The dildo of unintended consequences never arrives lubed.”

  13. “…coal-fired power plans will be reactivated and the government will make proposals by summer next year on how to offset increased carbon dioxide these plants will generate this winter.”
    ________________________________________________________________

    Ohh Oh Oh (raises hand). I have a suggestion. All those districts whose political representatives voted to negate coal plants not be allowed to benefit by their re-activation. Instead, they shall be required to use “environmental friendly sources” only, AND have to pay for the increased costs necessary to get the coal plants up and running efficiently once again. Additionally, any non-profit organizations who lobbied for the closing of coal plants must, also, pay these increased costs and abstain from any benefit.

  14. But they are still shutting down their nuclear power plants because of the risk of a tsunami. Madness.

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