World’s ‘solar and wind capital’ freezing due to snow ‘blanketing millions’ of solar panels

The best wood-burning stoves are made in Germany. I've seen three-storey houses comfortably heated by one such stove.

Beautiful and functional, but quite expensive.

 

Except five straight years in Texas where it happened.

 

No. Wind power was not counted on in any of those 5 years. Wind power accounted for that percentage. Do you understand the difference yet?

 

Over time, that difference disappears. I'd take this in front of a jury 100 times out of 100.

 

I like our prospects better than Germany's.

“Explosive” German Government Audit Report: ‘Energiewende’ Has Become “A Danger For All Of Germany”
By P Gosselin on 31. March 2021

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Hey Hans, how’s that Energiewende working out for ya?



Germany’s Energiewende faces bleak future if government does wake up to harsh realities, new Audit Report finds. Image: P. Gosselin.

A new German government audit report warns that the Energiewende is exploding costwise, and that there is a real danger of electricity shortfalls…”a danger for all of Germany”

Daniel Wetzel at German national daily Die Welt reports on the latest German Federal Court of Auditors’ warning: “If things continue like this, Germany as a business location is in danger. The costs are out of control – and there is a growing threat of an electricity shortfall.”. . . .

 

Germans fight each other savagely over where wind generators can be located, at what height, etc. To say the least, there are LOTS of German 'NIMBY's'.

In Germany they also know that stupendous amounts of natural gas are headed their way, at excellent prices just as soon as the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is completed with the Russian Federation -- before the end of this year!

Truth? They don't need the "ass-ache" involved in fighting each other over these glorified, super-expensive windmills....

 

So that in addition to all their other challenges they can be hostages to Putin.

 

They have warnings, Texas has outages.

 

The world needs them to stop our dependence on carbon and the EU needs them so as to be not beholden to the murdering dictator in Russia.
Even America needs them and despite your protests those in charge recognise it and the progressive states are leaving the caveman states behind

 

Texas will be fine. Germany's problem is fundamental and self-inflicted.

 

Yeah sure. Germany gets warnings they will deal with. Texas gets weeks of no power, and its Texas that's Ok.
You still losing power lines to those flying pigs?

 

Yeah, well, this 'cave man' would much rather see the world pour its R&D money and effort into the only "ultimate" source of energy that will really make an enormous improvement for the planet and everyone in it -- HYDROGEN FUSION!

We can fart around with wind, solar, biomass, and several other pricey, inefficient, 'boutique' approaches to the generation of energy, or, we can focus on the ONE way we really can generate limitless energy with no pollution... provided that the world doesn't run out of water in the oceans....

Suggestion: if you really don't know anything about HYDROGEN FUSION research, you should. We had a TOKAMAK research reactor at the University of Texas as far back as the mid-1970's, but hydrogen fusion has always been starved for funding. Maybe if Bill Gates and the other 'darlings-of-the-Left' really wanted to 'make-a-difference', they'd pour money into the R&D needed to make hydrogen fusion energy plants a reality ASAP, instead of a dream.

Links:
https://www.powermag.com/fusion-energy-is-coming-and-maybe-sooner-than-you-think/
https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk

 

That's because hydrogen fusion is ancient technology that doesn't work in practice

 

Oh? And you KNOW this, how...?

You didn't really SAY anything, did you....(?)

 

After billions and billions of dollars spent in countries all around the world, point to one reactor that showed more energy out than energy in. The idea has been around for 100 years and no one has got even close

 

Ah, good old fusion. Only a generation away, whichever generation you choose. Last time I looked they were still trying to find something to contain it.

But they haven't proved to be pricey or inefficient, not for a long time.

 

The idea that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is going to make all of Europe "hostages to Putin" is just unrealistic, unimaginative bullshit!

The Germans ALWAYS have the option of importing liquified natural gas (LNG) from the United States and other countries. The cost would be greater because the LNG would have to be transported by ships -- but -- if Russia got 'huffy' with the Germans and started being all dictatorial, the Germans could always tell them to 'fugg-off' and buy their gas from us! And although nobody among radical Democrats will admit it, that is EXACTLY what Trump was trying to convince the Germans that they should do anyway!

. "The Germans told us to 'fugg-off', so NOW who do we sell all that damned gas to...?!"

 

I'd still prefer that cheap energy did not effect our decision making re Putin. Indeed I like to stop buying from Russia altogether until they rein the necks in.

 

So, because hydrogen fusion is deliberately starved for funding and focus by multi-billionaire interests -- who like things very much as they are -- we sit and do little or nothing toward actually developing it.

The same multi-billionaires will 'milk' the s-l-o-w, tortured process of providing better energy-generation solutions, one s-l-o-w step at a time, so that they can maximize their profits and cash in on government handouts all along the way.

Does the phrase "Obama and Solyndra" still ring any bells with those of you who prefer inadequate 'boutique' solutions like solar and wind? No, these 'ostriches' would rather bury their heads in the sand of 'carbon taxes', while hyperliberal bureaucrats and their multi-billionaire paymasters make certain that nobody achieves too much too soon... (bad for business!)

And, who actually gets screwed as a result of all this foot-dragging? If you're an American taxpayer, GO LOOK IN THE MIRROR!

 

If you are German, you already know that if it really came down to it, Russia could do anything it wants to in Europe! From large, forward weapons installations in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad, Russia could effectively destroy Germany, from one end to the other, in less than twenty minutes.... Etwas "schlim", na und...?

Fortunately, instead, Russia would MUCH rather do economic business with you, selling you and anyone else all the natural gas you will want for decades into the future, and make immense amounts of money! And it is probably in your best interests, at least for a while, to take advantage of this situation with Nord Stream 2 instead of having all these angry, protracted fights among yourselves that go on and on and on, about how you will accommodate wind or solar sites, so that all Germans will be happy about it.

 

Countries all around the world have spent billions and billions and all failed. There has been no starving of funding.

 

Fine! Then smile, get ready to pay a HELL of a lot more for solar and wind -- along with the batteries , and have a nice day. Shut down all the coal and natural gas plants tomorrow morning!

The Democrats will probably invent huge new welfare programs to pay the energy bills of the growing numbers of people who will be "freezing in the dark" when the sun doesn't shine, the wind doesn't blow, and the batteries are drained.

 

Who starved it of funds?
Last time I looked the concrete shrouding which holds the structure in place became crystallised by the neutrons passing through it.
The World nuclear association states its current position.

• Fusion power offers the prospect of an almost inexhaustible source of energy for future generations, but it also presents so far insurmountable engineering challenges.

 

Most countries are now seeing that they wont need batteries, turned out wind power was not unreliable after all. So long as you put the farms in the right place. We have hundreds in the Wash off the Norfolk coast where the wind blows constantly. That's happening all over the first world now and we're hoping second world countries like Texas will see it working after we did all the research.

 

Be happy, at least in Germany you will soon have Nord Stream 2, and inexpensive 'erdgas' for a long, long time. Don't worry -- Russia wants your MONEY, not your blood.... Habe Spaß! (Have fun!)

Here, in what used to be the United States of America, we have our own breed of radical "Gutmenschen" running the country, and the first thing that our new "Führer" did was to shut down the Keystone Pipeline between the U. S. and Canada.