Germany seemingly "succeeded" in getting 49% of its electricity from "renewables" in 2022 - but note, that also includes wood. Regardless, they are one of the most "successful" in the world
But at what cost?
Posted on 03/23/2023 12:43:57 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
BONN, Germany (Reuters) - It rains year round in Germany. Clouds cover the skies for about two-thirds of all daylight hours. Yet the country has managed to become the world’s leading solar power generator....
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The predictable energy collapse likely to start the next World War.
Solar might work in Spain...Italy...and Greece.Elsewhere in Europe? No way!
One priority for inclusion as a Reuter’s reporter is a total inability to pass even a level 100 “Science for Poets” course.
Well, can’t they harvest the clouds for clean energy that doesn’t produce that damned plant food CO2?
/sarcasm of course.
“The predictable energy collapse likely to start the next World War”
I would not bet against that. There is absolutely NO WAY that “green” crap can power an industrial nation. We will have high priced and very unreliable power making us easy pickings for China which is on a sensible energy path.
Tha doesn’t matter to liberals.
Interesting. They are careful not to draw attention to how much of the environment has been paved over with these suckers.
co2 is poisoning us!!!!
As a recovering engineer...
When I see how solar and wind farms (corporate welfare at its finest) they are allowed to use 100% efficiency ratings to calculate their base load. In other words. They are allowed and encouraged to commit fraud against the public. There IS NO WAY I would not be in jail if I were allowed to use government maffs to calculate load ratings for my particular field of practice.
Germany seemingly "succeeded" in getting 49% of its electricity from "renewables" in 2022 - but note, that also includes wood. Regardless, they are one of the most "successful" in the world
But at what cost?
No. We lived in Germany It’s sunny there. At least two weeks in June. Eye roll
Lucky them. Here in texas we’re stuck depending on this stupid energy deal. We were without electricity a week in Feb last year it was single digit temps. When we most needed it.
I work in a major metro hospital. They now literally don’t turn on the heat. This year over Christmas it was 12 degrees out. I worked in 55 deg inside. Shivered 3 12 hour shifts Got pneumonia
They probably conducted a 5 year study to conclude this.
“if it saves the planet no cost is too much!”
I remember my first February in Germany at Ramstein AB. It is the shortest month, but I did NOT see the sun except when I rode on an aircraft above the clouds one time, and I literally had to go to the KC-135 bubble window by the toilet (a can with a hose going outside) the see it.
Recently Germany increased coal mining. We had the most fun reading that one of the locations with a lot of coal in Germany was.......under a wind farm. They tore down the wind farm because coal is a 24/7 energy source. Coal does not stop at sunset, or when the wind dies down.
Also, India recently announced they are ramping up coal mining. Coal already produces 70% of India’s electricity. As a side benefit, the burning of hydrocarbons produces PLANT FOOD (C02). Since India intends to produce more plant food, perhaps we should create an award for really trying to make the world more green.
The power utilities have to pay 49 cents / kWh! This is a distribution of wealth from the people without solar to the people with solar. Grid dependency on solar is about as dumb as depending on Brandon to walk up stairs.
Another quote from the article: "55 percent of the world’s photovoltaic (PV) power is generated on solar panels set up between the Baltic Sea and the Black Forest." I bet that's 55% of grid solar power, not total solar power including decentralized solar (powering individual homes), is from there. There's no way the solar from that area comes close to equaling the decentralized solar in Australia + southern portion of U.S. + many homes in central America (where you'd be stupid not to have solar). Basically they want you to think the only way anything, solar or anything else, works is if the government does it.
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