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On the Threshold of Renewable Energy Chaos

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    This link is about Germany, but my purpose in starting this thread is to open a wide-ranging discussion of renewable energy.


    Last-Ditch Effort: Germany Weighs Electricity Rationing Scheme To Stabilize Its Now Shaky Green Power Grid
    By P Gosselin on 19. January 2021

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    Is the German model America’s future?
    Putting matches in charge of fighting gasoline fires? Even more interference appears to be the German government’s approach to solving the power grid mess that its earlier meddling created in the first place.

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    Germany struggles to keep the lights on, looks for a law to prevent its power grid from crashing.

    Before the days of climate alarmism and hysteria, the job of deciding how to best produce electricity was left to power generation engineers and experts – people who actually understood it. The result: Germany had one of the most stable and reliable power grids worldwide.

    Green energies destabilized the German power grid

    Then in the 1990s, environmental activists, politicians, climate alarmists and pseudo-experts decided they could do a better job at generating power in Germany and eventually passed the outlandish EEG green energy feed-in act and rules. They insisted that wildly fluctuating, intermittent power supplies could be managed easily, and done so at a low cost.

    Blackouts threaten

    Fast forward to today: The result of all the government meddling is becoming glaringly clear: the country now finds itself on the verge of blackouts due to grid instability, has the highest electricity prices in the world, relies more on imports and is not even close to meeting its emissions targets.

    Germany’s rickety and moody power grid now threatens the entire European power grid stability, as we recently witnessed.

    The need for “smoothing out” demand peaks

    So what solution does Berlin propose today? You guessed it: more meddling and interference, more outlandish bureaucrat solutions. Included among them are shutting down the remaining baseload coal-fired and nuclear power plants, and relying even more on the power sources that got the country into its current mess in the first place.

    And new are restrictions as to when power can be consumed by consumers and industry! Energy rationing and targeted blackouts. . . .
     
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    As long as they have neighbors they can pay to take excess production off the grid to keep it from melting down or from whom to buy energy from when their green isn't servicing demand, there is nothing that will change their minds. If they ever have a sunny windy day when they don't have anybody willing to absorb their overproduction, they will rethink what to do with what remains of their grid.
     
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    Destroying the forests to save the forests?

    Biomass, Palm Oil, Wind-Parks: Climate Protection Measures Costing Tons Of Money, Destroying Forests
    By P Gosselin on 27. January 2021

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    Many “climate protection” policies promote the destruction of forests. Image: NASA (public domain).

    The climate alarmist Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) says climate protection policies are more than 5 times more expensive than they have to be. More trees are the way to go. Yet climate protection is driving the biomass fuel movement and deforestation from palm oil and wind parks. . . .
     
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    Not a surprise.

    Berlin On The Brink! Winter Blackouts Loom As Coal Plants Run At 100% Capacity, Struggle To Keep Lights On In
    By P Gosselin on 28. January 2021

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    Wintertime wind and solar energy “between 0 and 2 or 3 percent – that is de facto zero,” says German power distribution professor.

    Berlin’s power supply severely strained

    Germany now finds itself in the dead of winter. Much of the country has seen considerable snowfall, meaning solar panels are often covered by snow and thus rendered useless. Even without snow cover, the weeks-long overcast sky prevents any noteworthy solar power generation.

    Moreover, this winter there have been many long windless periods, and so Germany’s approx. 30,000 wind turbines have been largely out of operation. In a world 100% reliant on green energies, this would mean near 100% darkness at home.

    Luckily Germany’s still existing coal and nuclear power infrastructure is (still) there to step in and keep the power on and the country running. This has been the case for Berlin this winter an RBB German television report reveals: . . .
     
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    Still feckless, after all these years . . .

    Biden to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Like the Paris Agreement, it Will Make No Difference
    January 27th, 2021
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    Joe Biden’s administration has made climate change one of its top priorities. Photographer: Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg

    In what appears to be a never-ending string of ineffective efforts to force the public to use expensive, unreliable, intermittent, and not-widely-deployable renewable energy, the Biden Administration is issuing an executive order that (among other things) directs federal agencies to end fossil fuel subsidies.

    Personally, I would not mind if all federal subsidies were ended, since all that subsidies do is put the government, rather than the consumer, in charge of what you spend your money on.

    But federal subsidies on fossil fuels represent less that 3% of the revenues of the fossil fuel industry. This action will have essentially no impact on an economy that still runs on fossil fuels. That 3% will be voluntarily paid by the consumer, just directly rather than through subsidies.

    In contrast, renewables currently enjoy 25 times the level of subsides per unit of energy produced as do fossil fuels, and the market penetration of EVs is still only 1.2%. One can see that massive government meddling in the energy market is the only way that people will — at least for the foreseeable future — “choose” renewables over fossil fuels. . . .
     
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    Fine. End the subsidies. It will save a few bucks. There is a story about how some complicated combination of subsidies and tax breaks somehow made it profitable to run a tank-car train full of oil back and forth across the Canada-US border. Maybe that's why they cancelled Keystone XL...?

    And how about ending the subsidies for corn-as-fuel, while we're at it? I once knew a woman who lived in a small town in the middle of 1Mkm^2 of forest who heated her home with corn, not wood, because the subsidy to using corn for energy made it cheaper than wood. True story.
     
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    And end subsidies to renewables.
     
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    Shafting The Poor
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    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Let me start with a couple of the most callous and heartless quotes that I know of. Here’s a description from Politico of the first…
     
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    Winter Storm Threatens Germany’s Power…Freezing Hell Threatens If Already Rickety Grid Collapses!
    By P Gosselin on 6. February 2021

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    Green energy and COVID-19 policies are playing energy Russian roulette with people’s lives. Perfect winter storm brewing.
    A winter blizzard is set to strike Central Europe, bringing with it the potential to wreak power outage havoc. Temperatures will plummet to as low as -15°C accompanied by bone-chilling high winds. Closed shops due to COVID-19 have left citizens unprepared. A protracted power outage would be devastating.

    In the coming hours, a high pressure system situated over Scandinavia and storm Tristian to the south will collide over central Europe and develop into dangerous weather conditions over one of Europe’s most populated regions, North Rhine Westphalia Germany. . . .
     
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    Idiots unite!

    Joint 10 Point 100% RE Declaration
    Posted on 10 Feb 21 by MIKE DOMBROSKI • 2 Comments

    A group calling itself the Global 100% RE Strategy Group has just made a press release for a 10 point joint declaration. It has seven main signers which, of course, includes Mark Jacobson of Stanford. The other six and their main affiliations are:

    Prof. Andrew Blakers (Australian National University)
    Hans-Josef Fell (Energy Watch Group)
    Prof. Brian Vad Mathiesen (Aalborg University)
    Prof. Eicke Weber (ESMC, CBC, UC Berkeley em.)
    Prof. Christian Breyer (LUT University)
    Tony Seba (RethinkX)

    The gist of these ten points is number two where they propose transforming the worlds energy system to 100% renewable by 2030-2035. In the press release they point out that 2030 is for electricity and 2035 is for the other sectors. I’m getting erratic behavior trying to copy and paste from these PDFs which is a pity, because ridicule can not do them justice. Besides being beyond delusional, they’re horribly organized. They’re not very long so IMO they’re worth the amusement. They remind me of a post by Geoff from 2017 entitled, Conversation in a Straight Jacket. . . .
     
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    People Who Moved To Texas From California Finally Feeling At Home Now That Power Is Out
     
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    ". . . It is sad and ironic that in a state known for its huge petroleum and natural gas resources, wind power’s lack of reliability has brought the state to its knees in a time of crisis. This is not unlike what California experienced in 2020 during record heat where wind and solar power could not keep up with demand and there was near collapse of the grid.

    The folly of chasing renewable energy as a means of mitigating “climate change” is making itself abundantly clear today in Texas. When will politicians wake up and realize that renewable energy almost always results in unreliable energy?

    Perhaps when Texas electricity customers get their sky-high electric bill for what little electricity they’ve been allowed to have, they’ll push for change."

    Texas Wind Power Failure Continues, Most of State Experiencing Outages
    RENEWABLE ENERGY FEBRUARY 15, 2021

    Millions of Americans Without Power in Freezing Cold as Wind Power Fails
    RENEWABLE ENERGY FEBRUARY 15, 2021
     
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    Texas at -20C, five million without power as Wind Turbines freeze
    Welcome to Woke World where states pretend to control the weather while the weather controls the state

    An Arctic blast; an ice storm called Uri, has frozen up half the wind turbines in the hot southerly Big State of Texas.

    Supplier Oncor is warning it may be hours before power is restored. People are livid, their pipes are freezing, some have had no electricity for 12 hours. Their website is down, their phone lines are out. People can’t even report outages.

    UPDATE: NY Times is already blaming Climate Change for the frigid weather.

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    Anchorage, Alaska is warmer than parts of Texas.

    At least five dead and 5 MILLION without power as winter storm Uri sweeps the nation, freezes wind turbines, plunges wind chills to -20 in Texas and causes tornadoes in the south west. . . .
     
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