Germany's Energy Transition Dream at Risk of Becoming Nightmare

Rig Zone ^ | August 27, 2014 | Jon Mainwaring

[thackney]

replacing their lower nuclear use with higer coal use

exactly

BTTT

[Billthedrill]

The problem with watching them try this sort of thing and failing is that nobody on the Left seems to learn from failure. If it doesn’t work, you just need more of it. That’s not only an environmental policy, it’s an entire philosophy of government.

[thackney]

If it doesn’t work, you just need more of it.

I had salesman that seemed to believe we could loose money on each job but make it on volume.

Neither of us work there anymore, neither does anyone else

[Praxeologue]

The Wintershall Executive Director is just as nuts as the rest:

renewables have to play an important role in the Energy Transition

If you do not accept the AGW hypothesis, coal is no more harmful than natural gas. Coal combustion just emits more CO2. So keep on generating half of your energy from coal, Germany; and bring nuclear back up to 25%.

Germany needs to permit fracking in order to replace astronomically expensive solar and wind power with natural gas and to replace natural gas imports. Chalk up the renewable experiment to an expensive lesson.

In a logical world, the political will for fracking should come from Putin's antics. With Putin funding the German anti-fracking lobby, however, rational behavior may be doomed.