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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Yeah, but then there goes the "Working in the Coal Mine" DEVO pun fun. 😜
Who cares? No one with any brains pays attention to the little twit.
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.
“Everybody’s got a plan until the power goes out”.
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
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.
This is so delicious.
Thanks. Hadn’t seen Dinah in ages!
What an EXCELLENTLY appropriate song for this!
Working In A Coalmine - DEVO - Lyrics
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Well, well, well...
Light is dawning.
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.
Wanna bet ?
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
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?
Carbony....................😁
Germans always make good stuff!....................
Results of a policy based on superstition rather than real science............................
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...................
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