[InterceptPoint]

Greenies Rejoice. You have successfully reduced the global temperature by .0000000001 degrees centigrade. This will delay the onset of globull warming by 1.73444 seconds.

And such a small penalty for this victory - only 300,000 people need to go without electricity.

[The Working Man]

Unintended consequences?

Or perhaps this was intended all along.

[PeterPrinciple]

In the end, what actually drives up costs would remain unaffected: the haphazard expansion of wind and solar energy.

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from the article. When I read that I see the words wind and solar. They might want me to see the words haphazard expansion, meaning more centralized control.

[allendale]

This is not the first time the Germans have made a huge strategic blunder. The irony is that air quality will suffer as people will burn just about anything to keep warm and eat. Reliable cheap electricity is essential for a healthy environment and to alleviate miserable poverty. “Green energy” will never power a modern industrial society. Political environmentalists are green socialists and are guilty of crimes against humanity. These hairbrained schemes are more than nuisance in Germany but are causing death and disease in the third world.

[riri]

BKMK for later

[Da Coyote]

Always remember, that one is a liberal when one realizes that he/she has no discernible ability to create wealth or value, but still believes that they are smart enough to tell others what to do.

And science, my friends, is most definitely not a friend of liberals.

Hopefully, we’ll know their hiding places after CW-II and we will also know what to do with them.

Remember - they don’t give a smelly Obama about you, so please do the same to them when their time for justice comes.

[NormsRevenge]

here are mini-ice ages and then there are political ice ages..

sadly EUrope is already suffering one and about to have another one re-visit.

not to worry, the EU officials are all nice and cozy in their chalets

[alexander_busek]

The title of this article "Germany's Energy Poverty..." is unintentionally misleading.

I understand that the article is about poor people who are struggling to pay for electricity, which is increasing in price. But the title might be falsely construed to mean that Germany, itself, is poor in energy. In fact, nothing could be farther from the truth: Germany is rich in energy resources, is actually a net exporter of electricity, and makes extensive use of renewables - chief among them, wind and solar (the latter is highly subsidized). But because it lacks sufficient electricity storage capacity (e.g., pump storage facilities), during peak electricity production (such as the midday hours on sunny days), it is forced to sell (for nearly nothing) the excess electricity to, e.g., Austria and Switzerland - countries with plenty of storage facilities which then frequently sell back electricity to Germany in the early morning or late evening.

Germany's problem is simply that the increasing solar/wind capacity cannot replace a single conventional power plant, because those conventional power plants are needed to ensure baseline delivery on windless / cloudy days, and because it lacks sufficient electricity storage capacity.

Unfortunately, all of those private citizens who installed photoelectric modules on their roofs in recent times were promised artificially high prices for the electricity they deliver - for the next 20 years.

Regards,

[TexasRepublic]

They are all East Berliners now. Ha, ha!

[dead]

In heavy seas, work on the wind farm is suspended. The same applies when porpoises and their young are spotted, because of the potential damage to their sensitive hearing by construction noise.

Perhaps if it hurts their ears, they will swim away when construction starts, Zigfried.