Posted on 03/16/2022 10:46:51 AM PDT by blam
Germany is considering reopening some of its decommissioned coal power plants in the hopes of getting a handle on its ongoing energy crisis.
The reopening of shuttered plants is seen as an option as the country struggles to ween itself off of its addiction to Russian fossil fuels.
While authorities have already rejected plans of delaying the decommissioning of the remainder of its nuclear power stations, a new plan involving either delaying the shut down of coal fire plants that are still in operation, or the re-opening of plants that have previously been terminated, is now on the cards.
According to the publication Die Zeit, the German government is considering the two moves alongside energy company RWO, with the group’s CEO Markus Krebber saying that the organisation is ready to act if needs be.
“It is up to the federal government to decide whether these blocks must be used temporarily and to what extent they should be used to reduce gas consumption,” said Krebber regarding potential reopenings, emphasising both a delay on closures or a reopening of closed plants for reserve use was possible.
However, the RWE head was keen to emphasise that no U-turn on the phasing out of fossil fuels was occurring, and that the stop-gap measures being suggested did not represent a rollback of the country’s climate change plans.
“It’s not a backwards roll, but at most a step aside for a limited time,” the energy Tsar said.
Also mentioned by Krebber was RWE’s efforts to move away from hydrocarbons sourced from Russia, though he warned that this would have to be a slow process, saying he appreciated the German government’s refusal to implement restrictions on Russian energy imports.
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How long does it take to inspect & refire everything ???
WWI & WWII must have killed all of their intelligent men.
Kill the nukes and elect chicks. Great idea Krauts...
Of it takes Russia invading Ukraine to give Europeans a backbone against the Greens, then so be it.
Why not just build more windmills or solar?
Why not just get rid of all the cars that run on gas and go electric instead?
/sarcasm
In the spirit of “not letting a crisis going to waste”, now would be a good time for everyone to start producing more energy on the account of war.
If the dems were smart (oxymoron), they could tell their eco fanatics that times are tough and we need to suspend the killing of American economy, jobs and energy industry because of “Russia”.
Too late. The green lunacy has already severely impaired the fossil fuel industry. Natural gas which is the core ingredient of fertilizer is scarce and expensive. There are now worldwide fertilizer shortages (BTW over 60% of the fertilizer used un Europe is produced in Russia). There will be a worldwide famine with overt starvation and desperation in some places. Thank the Greens and the Biden cabal.
LMAO....That’s what happens when you kiss Brandon’s a**.
I thought I read that decommissioned coal plants were prohibitively expensive and darned near impossible to restart; guess not.
Cuz they’re too stupid to keep their nuclear reactors running...
Anything offensive is of course taboo today... but:
Imagine you have WWI (alpha males die).
Pre-war exodus of intellectuals when Nazi's take power (intellectual drain).
WWII (alpha males die)
Post War exodus (intellectual brain drain again).
Post war pacification programs by the West and Russians (alpha males suppressed).
Post war redrawing of borders to cut out Prussia where the military traditions come from (suppress alphas).
Then they suffer from what we ALL suffer from:
The rise of the post WWII liberal nanny state (started in the 1960s) defined by how women think. (suppresses alpha males). Anything male is bad (UFC, football, boxing... we all need to be more woman like and tell the teacher).
Globalization and the destruction of culture, national/region identities, etc.
IMHO, Germany suffered several hard hitting blows one after another (1914 - 1955) which essentially crushed them. They are a broken culture, running away from their past, ashamed of who they are, hiding behind international/multinational institutions as to avoid ANY personal responsibility. Their leaders are weak, their military is weak, their own culture is weak (as evidenced by the decline of their language on the world stage). To some extent they use their own past to avoid carrying their fair share of the burden in security matters (the age old issue of them not doing enough once the Cold War ended), but to a large degree it is also because they genuinely are weak. Not economically, they are strong there, but in their heart. The Germans today would rather live on their knees than die free on their feet. Any guy that stands up and dares be "male" gets crushed by a society that will consider him violent, psychologically deranged, a right wing radical, a misogynists.
That does not mean there are no real men left (there are). But enough have been destroyed and enough are suppressed, to where their voice no longer defines German life and culture, politics, foreign affairs...
Weighs, considers, and mulls are amongst the three top political cop-out words.
It means they’re ‘considering’ it, but really have no intention of following through.
There seem to be no long term strategies, only knee-jerk ‘fixes’ to the crisis du jour.
And this behavior transcends political boundaries and ideologies.
A few years ago when Germany realized their windmills and everything else renewable weren’t meeting their needs they fired their coal plants up midwinter IIRC.
How long does it take to mine the coal?
Or, you know... nuclear power?
My litmus test for whether an environmentalist is a merely a miseducated but reasonable person or they merely love the notion of saving the world from “evil capitalists” is always whether they support nuclear power.
So we are going to “go green”. Ruin our economy and businesses to “save the planet” while Russia, China and India are burning fossil fuels at alarming rates and have no plan to stop for the sake of “the planet”. Exactly how is destroying ourselves save the planet this way? We plunge ourselves into darkness while the rest of “the planet” keeps using fossil fuels. As my father used to say, “How dumb can you be”? Of course he never came across the biden admin.
RWE is the multinational corporation responsible for the Texas wind farms that failed in the February Freeze.
How many nuke power plants did they shut down?
Haha. Too funny
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