And note that I will not even flinch!
Maybe soon instead of just the Black forest they will have Black Germany.
So if these Germans are so anti coal and totally against”climate change” how come they built a brand new coal plant just 6 years ago when the climate change hysteria was going on?
Don't worry...between the forest fires which could have been prevented and this decarbonizing, we won't have forests to shade us and feed the earth and the air.
They’re going to maintain the plant for fill-in electrical generation, and use some of the plant to produce hydrogen using off-shore wind power.
Using excess wind power to separate hydrogen seems like a good idea. Whether it’ll be more than a drop in the bucket is another matter.
And it will only get higher as they move to 100% renewables.
To offer perspective, I pay 8 cents/KWH here in E. Washington state.
Under each wind turbine is a house sized block of concrete a steel , I wonder what that does to the ground water
Insanity. "Hard coal', i.e. Anthracite is a clean burning smokeless fuel. It is about as clean as natural gas, even without any special remediation.
Wind? Look at your wind turbines on a hot summer day. They don't turn. There is no breeze. Wind is as erratic, as erratic as the weather!
What happens when the wind doesn’t blow?
“This is a power plant that lasted barely longer than a U.S. presidential term ..... which are naturally built to last for much longer.”
Plants are usually designed to last 25 years before being rebuilt and run another 25 years. Our local coal power plant went on line in 1977, and has been rebuilt to meet Obama standards, and is still running.
Other coal plants I know that went on line in 1975 have been shut down and destroyed.
So we are not the only country overtaken with stupidity! The sad thing about it is that this relatively brand new Coull plant was probably equipped with the latest pollution control equipment. Economic idiocy!
How many coal miners are looking for jobs?
I worked in an office building that was three years old South of Berlin. To save the planet the ripped out every single light switch, light bulb, and light fixture to install “smart” devices that we workers could not manually operate. It was infuriating. If you sat more then 30 seconds in one spot (including on the toilet) the lights shut off. The toilet sensors were especially bad because it was pitch black and if you’ve ever been in a German bathroom they generally had two doors. One for the toilet area, the other for the washroom. Sitting in the office while looking at the screen and the lights would shut off because no one was moving. I do admit though, the “green” living roof was pretty nice to have lunch. But geesh. The Germans sure do love tormenting themselves.
I wonder where they are going to park the unicorns.