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Watch: Germany demolishes its most advanced coal plant after only 6 years of operation
India Today ^ | March 26th 2025 | Aashish Vashistha

Posted on 03/26/2025 3:58:17 PM PDT by kiryandil

Germany demolished the Moorburg coal plant, one of Europe's most advanced, just six years after its launch, underscoring its shift to clean energy in pursuit of climate goals.

n a move reflecting Germany's determination to achieve its climate targets, the massive Moorburg power station in Hamburg, touted as among Europe's most advanced coal-burning plants, was demolished in a controlled explosion.

The footage captures a massive explosion detonating the building, followed by the plant collapsing as thick gray smoke billows over the industrial area.

The collapse, a grim visual reminder of the country's energy shift, came just six years after the plant first went into operation. The building of the 1,654 MW Moorburg plant was a massive investment, worth more than 3 billion euros.

(Excerpt) Read more at indiatoday.in ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Germany; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1654mw; climate; climategoals; coalplant; energy; europe; germangreenies; germannutters; germany; gretathunberg; hamburg; moorburg; moorburgcoalplant; morons
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Have another Nutter Butter Peanut Butter sandwich cookie, you German nutters.

Greta approves!

1 posted on 03/26/2025 3:58:17 PM PDT by kiryandil
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To: kiryandil

When their electrical grid collapses and people start dying from the result, the Germans might re-think this.


2 posted on 03/26/2025 4:01:34 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: kiryandil

And Germany dismantled all their nuclear power plants...


3 posted on 03/26/2025 4:01:55 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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To: kiryandil

Why? (Rhetorical question)


4 posted on 03/26/2025 4:02:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: kiryandil

And yes, Putin smiles over this. So does Xi.


5 posted on 03/26/2025 4:02:22 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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To: Thunder90

I believe they were forced to put a few back on line.


6 posted on 03/26/2025 4:03:14 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: kiryandil

Madness like Obama putting trucks in dumpsters


7 posted on 03/26/2025 4:03:31 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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if the Germans keep this up, they’ll soon no longer have the industrial capacity to start another world war, and will also be ripe pickings for the soviet union, the WHOLE country this time and not just the eastern part ...


8 posted on 03/26/2025 4:03:56 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Thunder90
And yes, Putin smiles over this. So does Xi.

Yep - the Greenie propaganda was probably funded by both of them.

Freaking insanity.

9 posted on 03/26/2025 4:04:13 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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https://www.law.utoronto.ca/blog/faculty/wind-power-complete-disaster

Wind Power is a Complete Disaster

This commentary was first published in the Financial Post on April 9, 2009.

There is no evidence that industrial wind power is likely to have a significant impact on carbon emissions. The European experience is instructive. Denmark, the world's most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power's unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone).

Flemming Nissen, the head of development at West Danish generating company ELSAM (one of Denmark's largest energy utilities) tells us that "wind turbines do not reduce carbon dioxide emissions." The German experience is no different. Der Spiegel reports that "Germany's CO2 emissions haven't been reduced by even a single gram," and additional coal-and gas-fired plants have been constructed to ensure reliable delivery.

Indeed, recent academic research shows that wind power may actually increase greenhouse gas emissions in some cases, depending on the carbon-intensity of back-up generation required because of its intermittent character. On the negative side of the environmental ledger are adverse impacts of industrial wind turbines on birdlife and other forms of wildlife, farm animals, wetlands and viewsheds.

Industrial wind power is not a viable economic alternative to other energy conservation options. Again, the Danish experience is instructive. Its electricity generation costs are the highest in Europe (15¢/kwh compared to Ontario's current rate of about 6¢). Niels Gram of the Danish Federation of Industries says, "windmills are a mistake and economically make no sense." Aase Madsen , the Chair of Energy Policy in the Danish Parliament, calls it "a terribly expensive disaster."

The U. S. Energy Information Administration reported in 2008, on a dollar per MWh basis, the U. S. government subsidizes wind at $23.34 -- compared to reliable energy sources: natural gas at 25¢; coal at 44¢; hydro at 67¢; and nuclear at $1.59, leading to what some U. S. commentators call "a huge corporate welfare feeding frenzy." The Wall Street Journal advises that "wind generation is the prime example of what can go wrong when the government decides to pick winners."

The Economist magazine notes in a recent editorial, "Wasting Money on Climate Change," that each tonne of emissions avoided due to subsidies to renewable energy such as wind power would cost somewhere between $69 and $137, whereas under a cap-and-trade scheme the price would be less than $15.

Either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system creates incentives for consumers and producers on a myriad of margins to reduce energy use and emissions that, as these numbers show, completely overwhelm subsidies to renewables in terms of cost effectiveness.

The Ontario Power Authority advises that wind producers will be paid 13.5¢/ kwh (more than twice what consumers are currently paying), even without accounting for the additional costs of interconnection, transmission and backup generation. As the European experience confirms, this will inevitably lead to a dramatic increase in electricity costs with consequent detrimental effects on business and employment. From this perspective, the government's promise of 55,000 new jobs is a cruel delusion.

A recent detailed analysis (focusing mainly on Spain) finds that for every job created by state-funded support of renewables, particularly wind energy, 2.2 jobs are lost. Each wind industry job created cost almost $2-million in subsidies. Why will the Ontario experience be different?

In debates over climate change, and in particular subsidies to renewable energy, there are two kinds of green. First there are some environmental greens who view the problem as so urgent that all measures that may have some impact on greenhouse gas emissions, whatever their cost or their impact on the economy and employment, should be undertaken immediately.

Then there are the fiscal greens, who, being cool to carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems that make polluters pay, favour massive public subsidies to themselves for renewable energy projects, whatever their relative impact on greenhouse gas emissions. These two groups are motivated by different kinds of green. The only point of convergence between them is their support for massive subsidies to renewable energy (such as wind turbines).

This unholy alliance of these two kinds of greens (doomsdayers and rent seekers) makes for very effective, if opportunistic, politics (as reflected in the Ontario government's Green Energy Act), just as it makes for lousy public policy: Politicians attempt to pick winners at our expense in a fast-moving technological landscape, instead of creating a socially efficient set of incentives to which we can all respond.

These comments were excerpted from a submission on April 8, 2009 to the Ontario government's legislative committee On Bill 150.


10 posted on 03/26/2025 4:04:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: kiryandil

The Stupid is very strong in Germany


11 posted on 03/26/2025 4:04:35 PM PDT by butlerweave
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How much did they spend building and then destroying it ? LOL


12 posted on 03/26/2025 4:06:43 PM PDT by butlerweave
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It’s no wonder we had to kick their asses twice. Makes no sense.


13 posted on 03/26/2025 4:07:24 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: kiryandil

How dare they!


14 posted on 03/26/2025 4:07:45 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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In a country that has FOUR TIMES the energy cost the US has....a country that is now rapidly deindustrializing because its firms simply cannot compete while bearing such high energy costs, a country that is losing its large chemicals industry for the same reason, a country that really struggles with energy security since they have to import all the natural gas they use, Gaia is demanding yet more sacrifices.

They’re gonna EnergieWende themselves right into the poor house.


15 posted on 03/26/2025 4:07:47 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: kiryandil

What is stupider than a German?

A German that believes communism will save Germany!


16 posted on 03/26/2025 4:08:09 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: kiryandil

If you’re going green. you don’t destroy your CLEANEST plant.

What idiots!!!


17 posted on 03/26/2025 4:09:15 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: butlerweave
How much did they spend building and then destroying it ? LOL

How much energy did it take to build and then destroy?

I swear leftists have no ability to think through their actions.

18 posted on 03/26/2025 4:10:45 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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Germans. They couldn’t win a war even if you gave them a head start.


19 posted on 03/26/2025 4:14:53 PM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Denmark has yet to close a single fossil fuel plant”

The nutter is strong in these people.


20 posted on 03/26/2025 4:16:15 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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