The German Bundesrechnungshof, or the Federal Audit Office, is an independent government body charged by statute with overseeing the economic management of the Federal Republic. Last week, they published a devastating “Report … on the implementation of the energy transition
All "freedom writers" on Substack need to write even more about this topic - the Great Green New Deal scam. Climate Change is still the canard that our rulers are using to implement their "OneHealth" agendas.
I did highlight this issue with a recent short article that shows that dozens of people recently got frost bite in Kansas City (and had to have toes and fingers amputated as a result). Many of these people got frost bite from attending the Chiefs' NFL playoff game where the wind chill was negative-27 - the coldest football game in franchise history.
My question: How is this even possible if we've had decades of acute Global Warming?
This was written a couple years ago.....And we're here.
According to the IAEA PRIS database, construction of a new nuclear power station takes an average of 7.5 years to build and connect to an existing grid.
This means that it appears that Europe is purposefully creating an optimal environment to cull their own population. Woke = Mind Control.
The leadership of Europe has brainwashed their citizens into believing that green energy is feasible when they know full well it is not. Additionally, they've convinced their population that if they do not act by shutting these power plants down, climate change is going to kill them all.
So they're brainwashing their own countrymen to manifest conditions that will kill them, while promising them salvation for doing so.
I think the key word that you used is “fantasy”. The promoters of green energy here in the US, and apparently everywhere else, are living in fantasy land. I am a conservative who is going to vote for Donald Trump and we have solar panels and an electric car. We have the solar panels because our house is positioned for full sun and they were heavily subsidized. I have electric Volvo C40 because I love the 400 hp instant acceleration, the range fits my needs and again it was heavily subsidized and discounted because they weren’t selling well. I explain this craziness to my 13 year old and then go further. I explain to him that the same fools who think an electric car is going to save the planet will do everything they can to prevent mines from opening that are required to produce the batteries. They also protest and try to prevent the construction of new powerlines and power plants that will be needed to charge the millions of electric cars because solar and wind can not do the job. The best example is California where they already have brown outs in the summer and last year on a few occasions asked people not to charge their cars. Because the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine all the time(frequently both at the same time) you have to have backup capacity to handle the maximum possible load. Even at 13 years old he understands that this green transition is pure fantasy with a large doses of stupidity and ignorance. If they are going to spend this money it should go toward hardening the power grid against cyber attacks and EMP not subsidizing products that can’t stand on their own technical and economic merits.
This entire renewable/interruptible problem has been known for decades, as well as the high cost of the spinning reserves that it requires...Germany is just now noticing it? Simple physics tells you that the all-in cost of these renewables is prohibitive...The cost of wind generators, including maintenance, is very high, and it doesn't produce enough energy...Solar is much cheaper to build, but Germany doesn't have enough Sun for it to be economic...It's just barely economic here in Arizona, where we have lots of intense Sun...The whole proposition in a place like Germany is looney tunes...
Those people are delusional, probably because they do not have any skin in the game. Western Europe is steadily worsening in terms of economic prosperity and civil liberties. The main stream "conservatives" have just picked Ursula von der Laien (it's not a typo) as their candidate for the head of the European Commission. You can't go more delusional than that, can you?
We urgently need Milei to succeed in Argentina, because when people get poor and hungry they'll look around for solutions and I'd hate them to pick Russia and China as role models.
It’s not only Habeck and the Ampel Koalition who are deluded (or lying on purpose), it’s across pretty much all DE MSM. In our rather pretty town, settled in the early Middle Ages, we’ve had to endure regular protests by Fridays for Future & Letzte Generation dolts every weekend. As far as Kreis Lüneburg is concerned, there are no adults in the room, especially as we also have a Bürgermeister from the Green Party constantly spouting tosh from the Book of Green. As previously mentioned by others here, our “illegals” just want the freebies to keep coming without working, so they don’t care and adults here mostly seem to believe what’s being rammed down their throats by our media. It really is plain to everyone that the emperor has no clothes but for many to admit it’s the case, is a bridge too far. The self-delusion must continue.
We may take comfort that globally we have passed peak-climate delusion already, and everywhere realistic thinking is returning. Hopefully. it will reach Germany eventually.
We have now much more fossile energy in the world, nuclear energy is developed mightily, and even solar and wind add to an abundance of energy. Once this ESG madness is over, we may thrive again. Unless in the next years they manage to destroy Germany industry and society completely.
"German energy policies have [] made us the laughingstock of the developed world..."
For what it's worth, I'm not laughing at the takeover of your historically industrious nation by scientifically illiterate utopianists. It's too appalling to be funny.
Another tangent is the greens also hate mining. Yet their endless prattling about renewables requires vastly more icky and Gaia raping mining to bring the green “revolution” into being. Thus only true way to go green is to get everyone to “use less” and “do their part”.
Comrade Stalin and history has shown them the way forward.
Our author mentions expansion of the grid as an overlooked half of the story. While it is an important oversight, a few other pieces of these wonderful renewable energy sources are just as overlooked, if not moreso: overbuild capacity, backup energy sources and battery storage requirements. The Germans have already stepped on their cranks by closing the last of their nuclear power plants and are now mooching, so to speak, off the French. If the Greens have their way, fossil fuel plants are not long for this world, and then it's on to batteries. For those who are so inclined, the Manhattan Contrarian has done a yeoman's job of calculating the requirements and costs using the state of New York, here: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-8-new-york-getting-totally-lost-with-energy-storage. MC has also dealt with the grid and overbuild issues. To be blunt, it's gruesome. Germans can assuage themselves in the knowledge that their politicians have no monopoly on brute technical ignorance and utopian stupidity.
Apologies for the past three days of silence. I have been sick with a bad virus, but now I am recovering.
All "freedom writers" on Substack need to write even more about this topic - the Great Green New Deal scam. Climate Change is still the canard that our rulers are using to implement their "OneHealth" agendas.
I did highlight this issue with a recent short article that shows that dozens of people recently got frost bite in Kansas City (and had to have toes and fingers amputated as a result). Many of these people got frost bite from attending the Chiefs' NFL playoff game where the wind chill was negative-27 - the coldest football game in franchise history.
My question: How is this even possible if we've had decades of acute Global Warming?
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/climate-change-causes-mass-amputations?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
This was written a couple years ago.....And we're here.
According to the IAEA PRIS database, construction of a new nuclear power station takes an average of 7.5 years to build and connect to an existing grid.
Here is an article about Germany shutting down half of its nuclear plants amid an energy crisis: https://tritorch.com/suicide/!GermanyShutsHalfOfItsNuclearPlantsAmidEnergyCrisisSmall.png [image]
When a country in Europe shuts down a power plant they usually do not just take it offline, and instead deliberately reduce it to rubble so it cannot be restarted: https://tritorch.com/degradation/EuropeSuicide/%21FormerGermanNukePlantTowersDemolishedInMorningBlasts.png [image]
This means that it appears that Europe is purposefully creating an optimal environment to cull their own population. Woke = Mind Control.
The leadership of Europe has brainwashed their citizens into believing that green energy is feasible when they know full well it is not. Additionally, they've convinced their population that if they do not act by shutting these power plants down, climate change is going to kill them all.
So they're brainwashing their own countrymen to manifest conditions that will kill them, while promising them salvation for doing so.
Excerpt from: https://tritorch.com/suicide
"...But to say that the German government is not doing enough (...) is an astonishing assessment that has nothing to do with reality.”
From where I sit, it sounds like the German government has done entirely too much.
"The German energy transition threatens to be an unaffordable, unrealisable disaster, according to the government's own independent auditors"
I can think of only one explanation for this. The auditors must be racist.
I think the key word that you used is “fantasy”. The promoters of green energy here in the US, and apparently everywhere else, are living in fantasy land. I am a conservative who is going to vote for Donald Trump and we have solar panels and an electric car. We have the solar panels because our house is positioned for full sun and they were heavily subsidized. I have electric Volvo C40 because I love the 400 hp instant acceleration, the range fits my needs and again it was heavily subsidized and discounted because they weren’t selling well. I explain this craziness to my 13 year old and then go further. I explain to him that the same fools who think an electric car is going to save the planet will do everything they can to prevent mines from opening that are required to produce the batteries. They also protest and try to prevent the construction of new powerlines and power plants that will be needed to charge the millions of electric cars because solar and wind can not do the job. The best example is California where they already have brown outs in the summer and last year on a few occasions asked people not to charge their cars. Because the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine all the time(frequently both at the same time) you have to have backup capacity to handle the maximum possible load. Even at 13 years old he understands that this green transition is pure fantasy with a large doses of stupidity and ignorance. If they are going to spend this money it should go toward hardening the power grid against cyber attacks and EMP not subsidizing products that can’t stand on their own technical and economic merits.
This entire renewable/interruptible problem has been known for decades, as well as the high cost of the spinning reserves that it requires...Germany is just now noticing it? Simple physics tells you that the all-in cost of these renewables is prohibitive...The cost of wind generators, including maintenance, is very high, and it doesn't produce enough energy...Solar is much cheaper to build, but Germany doesn't have enough Sun for it to be economic...It's just barely economic here in Arizona, where we have lots of intense Sun...The whole proposition in a place like Germany is looney tunes...
Those people are delusional, probably because they do not have any skin in the game. Western Europe is steadily worsening in terms of economic prosperity and civil liberties. The main stream "conservatives" have just picked Ursula von der Laien (it's not a typo) as their candidate for the head of the European Commission. You can't go more delusional than that, can you?
We urgently need Milei to succeed in Argentina, because when people get poor and hungry they'll look around for solutions and I'd hate them to pick Russia and China as role models.
Holy shit the graphic! Lmao...it can't be real!
I mean if that doesn't tell you how unaware these fucktards are...I don't know what will.
It’s not only Habeck and the Ampel Koalition who are deluded (or lying on purpose), it’s across pretty much all DE MSM. In our rather pretty town, settled in the early Middle Ages, we’ve had to endure regular protests by Fridays for Future & Letzte Generation dolts every weekend. As far as Kreis Lüneburg is concerned, there are no adults in the room, especially as we also have a Bürgermeister from the Green Party constantly spouting tosh from the Book of Green. As previously mentioned by others here, our “illegals” just want the freebies to keep coming without working, so they don’t care and adults here mostly seem to believe what’s being rammed down their throats by our media. It really is plain to everyone that the emperor has no clothes but for many to admit it’s the case, is a bridge too far. The self-delusion must continue.
We may take comfort that globally we have passed peak-climate delusion already, and everywhere realistic thinking is returning. Hopefully. it will reach Germany eventually.
We have now much more fossile energy in the world, nuclear energy is developed mightily, and even solar and wind add to an abundance of energy. Once this ESG madness is over, we may thrive again. Unless in the next years they manage to destroy Germany industry and society completely.
"German energy policies have [] made us the laughingstock of the developed world..."
For what it's worth, I'm not laughing at the takeover of your historically industrious nation by scientifically illiterate utopianists. It's too appalling to be funny.
Another tangent is the greens also hate mining. Yet their endless prattling about renewables requires vastly more icky and Gaia raping mining to bring the green “revolution” into being. Thus only true way to go green is to get everyone to “use less” and “do their part”.
Comrade Stalin and history has shown them the way forward.
Our author mentions expansion of the grid as an overlooked half of the story. While it is an important oversight, a few other pieces of these wonderful renewable energy sources are just as overlooked, if not moreso: overbuild capacity, backup energy sources and battery storage requirements. The Germans have already stepped on their cranks by closing the last of their nuclear power plants and are now mooching, so to speak, off the French. If the Greens have their way, fossil fuel plants are not long for this world, and then it's on to batteries. For those who are so inclined, the Manhattan Contrarian has done a yeoman's job of calculating the requirements and costs using the state of New York, here: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-8-new-york-getting-totally-lost-with-energy-storage. MC has also dealt with the grid and overbuild issues. To be blunt, it's gruesome. Germans can assuage themselves in the knowledge that their politicians have no monopoly on brute technical ignorance and utopian stupidity.
Well, throwing stones from the swedish glass-house, it looks very very soviet.
Grand plans, enormous grift and corruption, and to getting within 1/10 of the goals in the allotted time.
Great article. Spread far and wide. More people need to wake up to the insanity of the anti-carbon agenda.