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Is there any deeper thinking behind this than just that wind and solar are “clean” so we should build more of them?

Personally, I called a local firewood dealer earlier in the week. They told me they have none left and that they could put me down on a waiting list.

It’s about 5.6 million jobs affected by the lack of natural gas. It is not about taking shorter showers.

A prolonged period of unfavorable weather (calm and overcast) could cause a serious energy crunch to hit one or both of Germany or the UK as soon as this winter...

Germany's renewable policy inspired energy insecurity has reached crisis levels, with Germany's Vice Chancellor warning of "Lehman like" economic contagion if energy prices rise any further.

Leading German economist Hans Werner Sinn sees 6 major problems with Europe’s green energy transition (Energiewende) and warns other nations against following the German energy model.

It’s official: the world is committed to rapidly reducing CO2 emissions

So it’s great to know that we will shortly have a new natural gas distribution system in Greenwich Village, ready for the next hundred years or so.

Germany’s government has not only taken a wrecking ball to the nation in terms of COVID, but also to its biodiversity in its self-deluded bid to protect the climate. 

2021 was also the first time in 22 years that the total power generation by green energies fell. In 2021, only 238 billion kwh of energy were produced compared to 250 billion kwh in 2020. In 2019, 241 billion kwh were produced.

In other words, those who demand 2% of the land area with B-plans for wind power plants actually need 10% of the land area.

The COP26 model, the one built around a future temperature, is going nowhere, as was proven these past few weeks. Neither enthusiasm nor perceived need will, in fact, move mountains. Anyone that has any doubt about that,...

So far, they have almost nothing in the way of grid scale energy storage. In the evening, they ramp up the natural gas plants, and import power from Arizona and Nevada — mostly natural gas, nuclear, and coal. Close to 30%...

As wildly fluctuating, weather-dependent green energies come increasingly online, German grid operators and the German Federal Audit Office are warning the German government of power blackouts...

The planned new construction of green power plants will not even come close to offsetting this output. Should the electricity demand, after the Corona lockdown, rises again to the level of 2019, it will be suspenseful, especially...