Posted on 04/14/2019 6:15:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany has never really been a climate “trailblazer,” much as people like to think it is. So you can’t really describe Angela Merkel as the “climate chancellor.” It was a complete coincidence that 1990 was taken as the base year for the reduction in CO2 emissions. It was Germany’s sheer dumb luck that all the dirty factories were still operating in the East. After reunification they had to be shut down very quickly, which of course made the country’s carbon footprint look an awful lot better. By contrast, in the last 10 years, the level of greenhouse gas emissions has barely gone down at all.
If the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan had not happened, German nuclear power stations would still be generating electricity. But the catastrophe caused the self-proclaimed climate chancellor to perform a major U-turn. Shortly after taking office in 2005, she overturned a nuclear phaseout planned by the Social Democrats and the Greens. One year before Fukushima, she talked about “nuclear power as a bridging technology.” Then in the summer of 2011, following Fukushima, she announced a new nuclear moratorium.
Since then Germany has been battling with the consequences of the government’s “Energiewende,” or energy transition policy. It has meant the percentage of electricity generated by renewable sources has significantly increased. But at what cost?
The precise answer is €160 billion ($180 billion) in the past five years! And the result is the highest energy prices in Europe. This has not just hit private consumers hard, but the German economy overall. Even so, we still can’t get this damn carbon dioxide level to go down. So now we have to introduce a transportation transition policy, too. …
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That’d be primarily sulfur and nitrogen compounds, which are actual pollutants. A bit of chlorine and benzene mixed in.
More dams and windmills, that’s the answer! Who needs migratory fish and birds, anyway?
OK!! Jeder achtet darauf!That’s the Google Translate treatment of your post, just altered to reflect the stated ambitions of the Bundestag. Any corrections by German speakers are welcome.
Lektion für heute:Studienfrage: Wie planen weniger als Flecken im Bundestag die Sonne zu kontrollieren?
- Die Sonne ist 1.300.000 Mal so groß wie die Erde.
- Die Sonne ist ein riesiger Atomofen, der das Klima aller Planeten kontrolliert.
- Die Erde ist einer der Planeten der Sonne.
- Die Erde ist im Vergleich zur Größe der Sonne ein Fleck.
- Die Bewohner der Erde sind weniger als Flecken.
Germany has not made any great decisions in the past 100 years and is destined to ruination.
Dennis Prager: Look for what Germany does . . . and do the opposite.
Solar Power Satellite have been a seriously studied proposition as begun by Peter Glaser, since 1969. The initial concept has evolved from the idea of a monolithic unit built on Earth, transported by a single launch vehicle to a geostationary orbit. The cost was so outrageous as to be a non-starter with just a BOE examination.
With cost reduction achievable from 92% reuse of launch system components, that solar energy concept is now being given a fresh evaluation. “NASA’s SERT study results show that space solar power is “economically viable” if recurring launch costs range from $100 – $200 per kg of payload. While prices continue to fall thanks in part to SpaceX’s reusable rockets, there is still a long way to go.”—Singularity Hub
“Analytic forecasts of levelized costs of electrical power delivered from SBSP show that $.10 per kilowatt-hour can be attained a current launch costs and that $.05 per kilowatt-hour could be attained at launch costs in the range of $1,600 per kilogam. This would be highly competitive with conventional solar, wind, and even coal.”—The Space Review
“Politically determined components of the power price have slightly fallen in 2018 but still account for more than half of what Germany’s households and small businesses pay with their power bill. Taxes, levies, and surcharges accounted for nearly 53 percent of a total household power price of 30.22 eurocents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh), figures by utility and energy industry association BDEW show.”—Clean Energy Wire
The European market for electricity could afford development of Space Based Solar Power, predicated on current wholesale pricing, and achieve a net cost savings of delivered electrical power. They should support such a development initiative.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3528/1
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/what-german-households-pay-power
Truer words were never spoken.
Individually the Germans are brilliant. Collectively they are an utter disaster.
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