TURN THOSE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS BACK ON!!!!!!!...................
Posted on 02/10/2021 5:56:44 AM PST by Renkluaf
Wintertime wind and solar energy “between 0 and 2 or 3 percent – that is de facto zero,” says German power distribution professor.
Berlin’s power supply severely strained
Germany now finds itself in the dead of winter. Much of the country has seen considerable snowfall, meaning solar panels are often covered by snow and thus rendered useless. Even without snow cover, the weeks-long overcast sky prevents any noteworthy solar power generation.
Moreover, this winter there have been many long windless periods, and so Germany’s approx. 30,000 wind turbines have been largely out of operation. In a world 100% reliant on green energies, this would mean near 100% darkness at home.
Luckily Germany’s still existing coal and nuclear power infrastructure is (still) there to step in and keep the power on and the country running. This has been the case for Berlin this winter an RBB German television report reveals:
https://youtu.be/AgYubOxsjmI
German RBB (Berlin-Brandenburg) public broadcasting recently aired a report (above) on the region’s winter energy woes titled: “Germany’s green energies strained by winter.”
Coal to the rescue
The report acknowledges that all the power is “currently coming mainly from coal, and the power plants in Lausitz” are now “running at full capacity”.
Strangely the RBB report has been taken down from the archives, yet is fortunately available on YouTube thanks to wind energy protest group Vernunftkraft.de.
In the report Daniel Bartig, a mechanic at the LEAG Lausitz plant, tells RBB he is skeptical that green energy can do the job, and says “the greatest share of power is currently coming from coal.”
Green energies will not keep pace with demand
Next in the report, RBB interviews Harald Schwarz, professor of power distribution at the University of Cottbus, who tells RBB he’s very skeptical of wind and solar energy doing the job. As Germany moves to shut down its reliable nuclear and coal power plants, the gap between supply and demand will grow dangerously wide.
Physical reality “totally neglected” by policymakers
According to Prof. Schwarz:
With this supply of wind and photovoltaic energy, it’s between 0 and 2 or 3 percent – that is de facto zero. You can see it in many diagrams that we have days, weeks, in the year where we have neither wind nor PV. Especially this time for example – there is no wind and PV, and there are often times when the wind is very miniscule. These are things, I must say, that have been physically established and known for centuries, and we’ve simply totally neglected this during the green energies discussion.”
Will have to rely on foreign energy in the future
RBB then warns of the increased odds of blackouts for the region, like the blackout in Berlin in 2019.
So what will happen in the future?
The reporter says the plan is that Germany will have to rely more on natural gas (from Russia), coal power from Poland and nuclear power from France.
Green energy dumbness and obstinance on full public display.
TURN THOSE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS BACK ON!!!!!!!...................
Be careful, the Muslims may go back to the Middle East.
and the rest of the EU take orders from the krauts. Amazing.
Let the bastards freeze in the dark.
How do you say “schadenfreude” in German?
There’s not a single year over past twenty in Germany, where electrical consumption decreased...which is really the blunt end of this discussion.
This past week, a dozen-odd electrical buses got delivered to my local area (Wiesbaden). There’s supposed to be more diesel or natural gas buses retired because of this.
The idea about all electrical car sales by 2030? Just driving the consumption rate even higher.
Poles, French and Czechs are just grinning...they can increase their plants and be assured of increased profits because the Germans will have to pay more.
Yup.
Coming to a deep blue state near you.
Oh wait, it already did. In California. They've been having rolling blackouts for years.
“Be careful, the Muslims may go back to the Middle East.”
👍👍
It’s definitely a saner place.
They don’t want nuclear, coal or petroleum products. So freeze in the dark, dummkopfs!
They need more electric cars to help lower the availability of electric power.
“The reporter says the plan is that Germany will have to rely more on natural gas (from Russia), coal power from Poland...”
Considering that both the Russians and Poles never drank the same Kool Aid as the Germans and other Western Europeans, this is a very good thing for them. Hopefully, both Poland and Russia IMPOSE TERMS on the rest of Europe, forcing them to re-civilize, unless they want to freeze.
And how much of that French power is nuclear still?
So the Germans are still dependent on nuclear energy; they’re just paying more for it. Fools. I understand wanting to move off of coal. It’s dirty and ruins the area around the coal plant as well as the areas where it’s mined. But nuclear is clean, safe energy. Per tW-h, it’s the safest form of energy production on the planet. Safer than solar, wind, and hydro.
Ha
Where, oh where, is that majestic (and doctored) photo of the tall solar building capturing the all of those mirrored rays to feed Germany’s power grid?
Harnessing the mighty power of the rainbow for limitless, clean energy to supply the Fatherland, and beyond.
Western Civilization is committing suicide and the chicoms and muzzies are laughing their hinders off as they sit back and watch.
The French grid is about 70-percent nuclear power, and it’s only going to 50-percent by 2035.
As the Germans see it....they think their solar/wind strategy will cover things. Once that fails, they will go to the ‘merchants’ (neighbors) and buy at substantial rates, and they won’t care if it’s clean or not.
Alot of this anti-nuke power hype goes back to Japan’s episode, and a tremendous amount of hype/propaganda that revolved around that.
My suspicion is that once you get to 10-percent of cars being battery-powered, the complexity of the grid will be some national emergency and monthly electrical bills will go up to 200 Euro per house/apartment while they go resolve the mess they created.
Solar panels have an energy cost.
Installing them has an energy cost.
Replacing solar panels has an energy cost...
Living in a state of delusion has a global cost...
“Germany’s green energies strained by winter.”
The irony is thick here.
Perhaps they can wait for some global warming instead.
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