Posted on 08/28/2014 8:07:57 AM PDT by thackney
It’s odd to see Germans being so downright silly, isn’t it?
Just wait until Putin turns off the Tap to Europe this Winter
Amazing what happens when the enviromentalist get involved. While they fly around in corporate jets and limos to events they tell countries and the people living there that they need to use less.
Why would he, what has Europe done to oppose him so far?
I think they invented silly.
It was a very,very silly decision Germany made to shut down their nuke plants.In my travels throughout Germany (West Germany,actually...I haven’t been there since reunification) I found that Germany doesn’t get nearly as much sunshine as some countries/regions.Like Spain,or the Australian Outback,or Nevada.
But,according to Lord Blackadder,they have no word for "fluffy".
If you're not a Britcom fan you won't get that.
... the country needs to develop an energy provision that is at the same time ecological, secure and affordable.By "ecological," I think they mean no/low CO2 emission. I have no idea what the metric is for "security." And "affordable" is always relative. And this thing is called a "dream?" My impression is that it was economic policy, established by the government.
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Solar power in Germany. Sorta like snow skiing in Egypt.
As long as money is no object...
develop an energy provision that is at the same time ecological, secure and affordable.
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They are describing nuclear power, but after Fukushima, they raised the level of their stupidity.
They haven't shut them all down, yet. They don't have the ability to generate enough without them.
Nuclear Power in Germany
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-G-N/Germany/
(Updated August 2014)
Germany until March 2011 obtained one quarter of its electricity from nuclear energy, using 17 reactors. The figure is now about 18%.
The cost of attempting to replace nuclear power with renewables is estimated by the government to amount to some EUR 1 trillion without any assurance of a reliable outcome, and with increasing reliance on coal.
More than half of Germany’s electricity was generated from coal in the first half of 2013, compared with 43% in 2010.
The British, on the other hand, have too many words.
George: I remember Bumfluff's housemaster wrote and told me that Sticky had been out for a duck, and The Gubber had snitched a parcel sausage end and gone goose over stumps frog side.
Blackadder: Meaning?
George: I don't know, sir, but I read in the "Times" that they'd both been killed.
What a surprise.
That’s hysterical. All that yammering about ‘renewables’ while they are essentially replacing their lower nuclear use with higer coal use.
Brilliant, those Germans.
BTW, I’m not sure Putin can cut off Europe’s gas, he needs the revenue and I don’t know where he goes to replace those sales.
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