The German "Energiewende" - vicit ad mortem!

Skybird · 08-12-22, 10:01 AM

Or we listen to our extremely competent, realistic Minister for Climate and Economy, Robert Habeck, when he advises us to shower less often, shorter and colder. Even when sorting garbage, according to Habeck, we should remember that by composting organic waste (which the Greens massively obstruct for certainly other reasons) and the gases it produces, we are "scoring off Putin" (Habeck's original statement).

A country whose leading government politicians routinely indulge in such infantile as well as surreal platitudes (I could continue the list for hours) no longer has a future. It must perish - ultimately conditioned by the infantility of the people who live in it.

As Habeck's secretary of state says in the TV documentary, as blasé as he is stodgy: "We will succeed because we have a different mindset."

Aha. Na dann ist ja alles gut.

mapuc · 08-12-22, 10:38 AM

I copied and translated what it said in the Danish Science magazine.
(not the entire article though)

Quote:

Renewable energy can power the world by 2050
A world without fossil fuels and nuclear power is technically feasible within the foreseeable future. The switch to renewable energy can even pay off.

We don't need oil, gas or nuclear power. Renewable sources like solar and wind could provide enough energy for the entire planet by 2050, estimate an international team of scientists from 13 universities.

The researchers reviewed hundreds of studies on renewable energy systems published since the 1970s to get an overview of the potential for conversion in different parts of the world.

The technical solutions are in place everywhere and the switch can be made economically viable, they conclude in a scientific paper just published in the journal IEEE Access.

Maybe your politicians do believe this.

Markus

Skybird · 08-12-22, 10:58 AM

They believe wrong. And believing is not knowing anyway. They replace reality with ideology.

Thats what the documentation and the long text I posted, are all about.

The Greens are also a very left party, always have been, many of their key names over the years and decades firmly root in Matrcist and Maoist grounds. Destroying the burgeouse social model and repalce it with their wanted collectivism and turning Germany into a de-industrialised naive Hobbits country from their beginning on has been part of their agenda, since they formed up in West Berlin in the early 80s under the name GAL, later Bündis 90/Die Grünen. Anarchism and relativising even excusing pedophilia included.

Also, plenty of pro Russian sentimentalism and a glossing over the real nature of the GDR her ein Germany: "Not everything was bad in the GDR" by now has turned into a well organised and orchestrated Russia- and GDR nosthalgia that serves to transfigured memories. I said int eh aost that ver ymany Germans are feelign much closer to Russians than Americans, and I stick to it. Especially in the former GDR, the five new federal states, but not just there. Anti-Americanism is strong in Germany, and traditionally so in the Bubble-Olaf's own party, the SPD.

Like Nazis refuse to realise what the Third Reich was and what Hitler was, many German reuse to admit what the GDR and what dictatorship in it was. Unfprtunately, the old ones infest many young ones as well. The evil seed is spreading and handed from one generation to the next.

JUst short time ago I red something where a quote by George Orwell was given, when he was asked about the future as he sees it likely to come. Orwell was very pessimistic (I say: realistic), and expected a dystopic future, and he said: "The concept of objective truth is removed from the world."

Let that sentence sink in deeply.

Trump does so. Putin. The left. Eco-activists. Gender-ideologists. Bejing. The central banks. The EU. Germany. The IPCC panel. Everybody. They all battle against the idea that there can only be one objective truth, which implies other truths beside the one truth necessarily must be wrong. Something is true, implies by definition that all claimed other truths cannot be true, there is not different kinds of truths about a matter or subject. But now, everybody tries not to find real truth, but they all construct their own narrations that support their egoism and ambitions, and then they clal this fiction "truth". Often the ambition is very profane: securing or maximising financial profits. Science of most branches, universities, are absolutely corrupted by it. Its an intellectual desaster.

Catfish · 08-12-22, 12:15 PM

Oh, heat pumps do work. Of course they need lots of electricity, especially in the winter. And they cost around 20,000 Euros for a (very) small house, you rather need two.

But since energy comes out of the wall plugs for free there is nothing to worry about. This may be even true if they engage some nuclear power plants to provide the energy, but with solar panels alone? No nuclear energy, no coal, no oil, no gas? In the winter?

Dargo · 08-12-22, 01:21 PM

The exceptionally low water level in the Rhine is worrying both the Netherlands and Germany, especially now that the section of the river near the German town of Kaub, a well-known bottleneck, threatens to become unnavigable next week. Dutch exporters and inland shippers can now only use fifty percent of the carrying capacity of their ships. The question is whether coal from the Netherlands will soon be able to reach much of Germany - which is in an energy crisis due to limited Russian oil supplies. "Low water is not unique, we have roadmaps for that. But there is a perfect storm of developments going on, and there is no end in sight. All those things together do add up to a very big concern," said inland shipping specialist Arno Treur (NPRC).

For example, there are fewer ships available, because the German demand for coal is high, now that the power plants there have to start running harder again. In addition, ships have been sold to Eastern European countries to transport grain from Ukraine. Low water as you see now has economic consequences for all of Europe, says sector economist Albert Jan Swart of ABN Amro. "Inland shipping alone brings European shippers and port companies some 80 billion euros annually. Two-thirds go via the Rhine: it really is a lifeline."

The low water level affects German industry in particular, says Swart. According to his estimate, about eighty percent of the coal used in Germany comes from the Netherlands. "If insufficient coal and other raw materials can be transported, it will cause damage particularly there. Germany is our most important trading partner. There are also economic consequences for the Netherlands, but fewer."

This is not the first time that the level of the Rhine has been low: in 2018, the river was unnavigable for months. The damage to Dutch trade and production companies amounted to some 371 million euros as a result, the Erasmus University calculated. It cost the German economy more: about 5 billion euros, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. "The Netherlands is much less vulnerable because our factories are more often located near seaports: they are not dependent on the state of the rivers," says Swart.

We do need to change our energy production, fossil fuels will only cause more droughts in Europe because it triggered climate change.

Skybird · 08-12-22, 02:01 PM

This winter will become interesting. But not as interesting as the next one (gas) and the next ones after that (power).

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English version:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blackout-Ma...ps%2C56&sr=8-1

Quote:

review

Fast, tense, thrilling - and timely: this will happen one day. Highly recommended. ― LEE CHILD

A dazzling debut -- Marcel Berlins ― The Times

Part Dan Brown–style chase and part eco-thriller, this debut - a bestseller in Germany - will get people talking. ― Booklist US

What makes this novel so compelling: it is not unrealistic. Quite the opposite. ― Handelsblatt

Blackout is a thriller resembling those of Frank Schatzing - it combines suspense with meticulous research ― Emotion
About the Author

Marc Elsberg is a former creative director in advertising. His debut thriller, the high-concept disaster thriller BLACKOUT, became a bestseller and one of the most successful thrillers of its kind in Germany. He has also given a TEDx talk on the subject of the horrors of an electrical grid failure. BLACKOUT and his follow-up, CODE ZERO were selected as Scientific Book of the Year in Germany. BLACKOUT was named Thriller of the Month by the Times. His latest bestselling thriller, GREED, contains cutting-edge research on the economy. He lives in Vienna, Austria.

German original version:

https://www.amazon.de/BLACKOUT-Morge...ps%2C79&sr=8-4

No, I do not entirely base on this novel when assessing these things. I was aware of the problem already before the novel was published. But it is a realistic scenario that can give you an overview of key implications, while having you feel well entertained - well, sort of.

I this happens one day, you do not want to stay inside huge metropoles. They will turn into arenas.

mapuc · 08-12-22, 02:09 PM

Change my comment after I reread Skybirds comment.

The title is available in English

Edit
I hope someone has to possibility to post the video from this twitter post

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/st...78285183172608

Quote:

Inspired by solar furnaces, this parabolic mirror concentrates light onto a focal point, and can be consequently used for more mundane tasks in place of industrial purposes

No electricity needed.
End edit

Markus

08-12-22, 10:01 AM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,717 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Or we listen to our extremely competent, realistic Minister for Climate and Economy, Robert Habeck, when he advises us to shower less often, shorter and colder. Even when sorting garbage, according to Habeck, we should remember that by composting organic waste (which the Greens massively obstruct for certainly other reasons) and the gases it produces, we are "scoring off Putin" (Habeck's original statement). A country whose leading government politicians routinely indulge in such infantile as well as surreal platitudes (I could continue the list for hours) no longer has a future. It must perish - ultimately conditioned by the infantility of the people who live in it. As Habeck's secretary of state says in the TV documentary, as blasé as he is stodgy: "We will succeed because we have a different mindset." Aha. Na dann ist ja alles gut. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

08-12-22, 10:58 AM	#3
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,717 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	They believe wrong. And believing is not knowing anyway. They replace reality with ideology. Thats what the documentation and the long text I posted, are all about. The Greens are also a very left party, always have been, many of their key names over the years and decades firmly root in Matrcist and Maoist grounds. Destroying the burgeouse social model and repalce it with their wanted collectivism and turning Germany into a de-industrialised naive Hobbits country from their beginning on has been part of their agenda, since they formed up in West Berlin in the early 80s under the name GAL, later Bündis 90/Die Grünen. Anarchism and relativising even excusing pedophilia included. Also, plenty of pro Russian sentimentalism and a glossing over the real nature of the GDR her ein Germany: "Not everything was bad in the GDR" by now has turned into a well organised and orchestrated Russia- and GDR nosthalgia that serves to transfigured memories. I said int eh aost that ver ymany Germans are feelign much closer to Russians than Americans, and I stick to it. Especially in the former GDR, the five new federal states, but not just there. Anti-Americanism is strong in Germany, and traditionally so in the Bubble-Olaf's own party, the SPD. Like Nazis refuse to realise what the Third Reich was and what Hitler was, many German reuse to admit what the GDR and what dictatorship in it was. Unfprtunately, the old ones infest many young ones as well. The evil seed is spreading and handed from one generation to the next. JUst short time ago I red something where a quote by George Orwell was given, when he was asked about the future as he sees it likely to come. Orwell was very pessimistic (I say: realistic), and expected a dystopic future, and he said: "The concept of objective truth is removed from the world." Let that sentence sink in deeply. Trump does so. Putin. The left. Eco-activists. Gender-ideologists. Bejing. The central banks. The EU. Germany. The IPCC panel. Everybody. They all battle against the idea that there can only be one objective truth, which implies other truths beside the one truth necessarily must be wrong. Something is true, implies by definition that all claimed other truths cannot be true, there is not different kinds of truths about a matter or subject. But now, everybody tries not to find real truth, but they all construct their own narrations that support their egoism and ambitions, and then they clal this fiction "truth". Often the ambition is very profane: securing or maximising financial profits. Science of most branches, universities, are absolutely corrupted by it. Its an intellectual desaster. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 08-12-22 at 04:23 PM.

08-12-22, 12:15 PM	#4
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,803 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Oh, heat pumps do work. Of course they need lots of electricity, especially in the winter. And they cost around 20,000 Euros for a (very) small house, you rather need two. But since energy comes out of the wall plugs for free there is nothing to worry about. This may be even true if they engage some nuclear power plants to provide the energy, but with solar panels alone? No nuclear energy, no coal, no oil, no gas? In the winter? __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.