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Germany Is Dismantling A Wind Farm To Make Way For A Coal Mine
https://oilprice.com ^ | By Michael Kern - Oct 26, 2022, 9:30 AM CDT

Posted on 10/26/2022 1:22:17 PM PDT by Red Badger

A wind farm is being dismantled in western Germany to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in a “paradoxical” situation highlighting the current prioritization of energy security over clean energy in Europe’s biggest economy.

The dismantling of at least one wind turbine at the wind farm close to the German coal mine Garzweiler, operated by energy giant RWE, has already started. RWE says that lignite, or brown coal, has been mined from the Garzweiler coalfields for over 100 years.

RWE also said at the end of September that three of its lignite-fired coal units that were previously on standby would return to the electricity market on schedule in October.

“The three lignite units each have a capacity of 300 megawatts (MW). With their deployment, they contribute to strengthening the security of supply in Germany during the energy crisis and to saving natural gas in electricity generation,” RWE said last month.

Now the company is expanding the lignite mine at Garzweiler after a court in Münster in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia ruled in favor of the energy group in a land dispute in March this year to expand the lignite mine.

Commenting on the dismantling of wind turbines to make way for expanding a coal mine, Guido Steffen, a spokesperson for RWE, told the Guardian, “We realise this comes across as paradoxical.”

“But that is as matters stand,” Steffen added.

Earlier this week, the ministry for economic and energy affairs of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia urged RWE to abandon the plan to dismantle the wind farm.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1sttopic; energyschadenfreude; germany; gretaisangered; gretaisangry; howdareyou; lignite
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To: Charles Martel
I see this as more of a course correction than devolution.

Yeah, but then there goes the "Working in the Coal Mine" DEVO pun fun. 😜

41 posted on 10/26/2022 3:11:31 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man.)
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To: central_va

Who cares? No one with any brains pays attention to the little twit.


42 posted on 10/26/2022 3:15:54 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: kiryandil

This is a desperation move. That stuff is loaded with sulphur, which makes for acid rain. The ancient cathedral in Muhlhausen, (East Zone) which I saw the year the border opened, was built of laterite. The Communists didn’t give a damn about pollution; they burned the stuff profligately, and the acid had obliterated all the fine detail of the carvings.

Hopefully the power plants which burn that schite will have scrubbers, but given that they were being phased out - maybe not.


43 posted on 10/26/2022 3:22:28 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (CNN)
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To: Red Badger

“Everybody’s got a plan until the power goes out”.


44 posted on 10/26/2022 3:26:37 PM PDT by Republican in occupied CA (I will not give up on my native State! Here I was born, here I fight and die!!)
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To: Ezekiel

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joo90ZWrUkU
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Here’s a link to DEVO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA9FiL7mz_0


45 posted on 10/26/2022 3:31:57 PM PDT by FtrPilot
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To: Red Badger

For the first time in decades, the Germans are finally making decisions on the basis of practicality rather than ideology.

Coal provides not only a lot more energy, but it is also reliable unlike windmills.


46 posted on 10/26/2022 3:37:08 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Red Badger

This is so delicious.


47 posted on 10/26/2022 3:38:44 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: FtrPilot

Thanks. Hadn’t seen Dinah in ages!


48 posted on 10/26/2022 3:59:50 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man.)
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To: FtrPilot
Working In A Coalmine by DEVO

What an EXCELLENTLY appropriate song for this!

Working In A Coalmine - DEVO - Lyrics

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49 posted on 10/26/2022 4:11:48 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: Red Badger

Well, well, well...

Light is dawning.


50 posted on 10/26/2022 5:20:30 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Red Badger

Funny.

Reminds me of the supposedly debunked story that when Galileo constructed his first telescope he sawed a piece of pipe from a church organ. Good story but apparently not true.


51 posted on 10/26/2022 5:43:36 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: jdege
Nobody can be stupid forever...

Wanna bet ?

52 posted on 10/26/2022 5:47:35 PM PDT by tomkat ( SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: Red Badger

Maybe Germany could have improved the wind turbine consistency, by putting all those Muslim "immigrants" to work, aiming their collective posteriors at the wind turbines.



(We could have shipped Eric "The Noise" Swalwell over there, to add his assistance to that "windy" effort.)



53 posted on 10/26/2022 6:11:54 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Red Badger
a “paradoxical” situation highlighting the current prioritization of energy production over fantasy
54 posted on 10/26/2022 6:56:52 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Red Badger
A wind farm is being dismantled in western Germany to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine

Ha..."demolish a wind farm"....good luck wid dat

Here's what the base of a wind farm looks like...huge anchor for the beast


55 posted on 10/26/2022 7:47:10 PM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: Red Badger

I have come to conclude that generally, based upon 2000 years of history, the people called germans are generally idiots...but strangely, they are very industrious idiots.

How about that for a seeming paradox?


56 posted on 10/27/2022 1:24:00 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Magnum44

Carbony....................😁


57 posted on 10/27/2022 5:02:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: unread

Germans always make good stuff!....................

58 posted on 10/27/2022 5:09:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Results of a policy based on superstition rather than real science............................


59 posted on 10/27/2022 5:13:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Deaf Smith

There is a machine that can do that.
An outdated sewage treatment plant used to be across the street from my house. They had HUGE tanks of concrete and steel. I wondered how they would get rid of them.

They brought in a machine that pulverized concrete and turned it into small rock very efficiently, although a bit noisy...................


60 posted on 10/27/2022 5:26:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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