Posted on 10/31/2022 8:37:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Nothing could better symbolize the deflating bubble of green madness that gripped Germany than the following from Lawrence Richard of Fox Business:
A German energy company is dismantling a wind farm to allow for an adjacent coal mine to expand its operations, officials said.
The German coal mine Garzweiler, operated by energy company RWE, admits the situation appears to be "paradoxical" — sacrificing one energy source for another — but defended the decision as necessary to strengthen supplies amid the ongoing energy crisis, Oilprice.com reported.
"We realize this comes across as paradoxical," RWE spokesperson Guido Steffen said in a statement. "But that is as matters stand.
It’s not “paradoxical” at all, it is practical. Germany needs reliable energy now that the comfortable reserve capacity supplied by massive Russian natural gas imports is no longer available to pick up the slack when the wind isn’t blowing, or is blowing so hard that the windmills need to shut down.
The practical necessity of hydrocarbon-based power (I like to call it “organic power,” not “fossil fuel” because it is based on organic chemistry) is obvious now that freezing to death is in prospect for huge numbers of Europeans this winter. Dr. Johnson’s immortal epigram could be updated to substitute freezing to death for hanging”
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to freeze to death in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
Fox Business continues:
The expansion comes in tandem with a plan to temporarily return three of RWE’s lignite-fired coal units to the market, a decision that was approved by Germany’s cabinet. The units were previously on standby.
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Reality is a tough thing, especially for communists.
Nah, I didn't so either.
I bet it really sticks in their craw, to do this. 👍🤪
“Reality is a tough thing, especially for communists.”
They hate it. It’s “unfair”, you see, and they are determined to unleash untold miseries to make it “fair”.
You put Klink and Schultz in charge, this is what happens.
Demolishing a wind farm,...good luck wed dat
1) Blades and towers to the landfill,,,that fiberglass is so indestructible.
And the tower base is thousands of tonnes of reinforced concrete:
Wind tower base under construction.
wed = wid.....fat fingers syndrome.
bttt
In the dictionary, this account should be mentioned in a sentence next to “poetic justice”!
Freeze real good this winter, Krauts!
It’s all fine.
The correct people made their money, so the project was a success.
We were in Munich last week as was crushed the mining exhibit at the Deutches Museum was closed, and may not reopen (the sign said something about 2028 in German)
It was one of the greatest exhibits of any museum I have ever been to, telling the history of mining, by taking you on a nearly mile long journey through history’s mines.
Germans mine. It’s what they do.
Eventually, every one has to pay the piper for departing from reality.
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