The collapse of Germany's solar and wind industry!!

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duh..........who couldn't see this coming? And I will say..........Im laughing.

Germans call it ‘Energiewende’......turning out to be a complete and utter failure!!!:oops-28: Perhaps some German's wont mind taking a risk of freezing their balls off to go green but the government certainly wont take the risk.....ummmm...............more duh.



The End of the Energiewende?
Energy Post Weekly
Heiner Flassbeck
10 January 2017

Stable high-pressure winter weather has resulted in a confrontation. An Energiewende that relies mainly on wind and solar energy will not work in the long run. One cannot forgo nuclear power, eliminate fossil fuels, and tell people that electricity supplies will remain secure all the same.

We have attempted unsuccessfully to find Energiewende advocates willing to explain that inconsistency. Their silence is not easy to fathom. But maybe the events themselves have made the outcome inevitable.

With nuclear power no longer available, a capacity of at least 50 gigawatts is required by other means, despite an enormously expanded network of wind turbines and solar systems

This winter could go down in history as the event that proved the German energy transition to be unsubstantiated and incapable of becoming a success story. Electricity from wind and solar generation has been catastrophically low for several weeks. December brought new declines. A persistent winter high-pressure system with dense fog throughout Central Europe has been sufficient to unmask the fairy tale of a successful energy transition, even for me as a lay person.

Will Germany’s Winter Wind & Solar Power Collapse Mean the End of the ‘Energiewende’?



As Ive been saying for 25 years........renewable energy as a prime source of energy is nothing but a fantasy embraced by suckers. It is not happening now and will never happen. The people of Germany are seeing what a joke it really is this winter.

Fairy tales are ghey.........and the consensus science will continue to not matter.:deal:
 
All this proves is they have to build more of it......Forward to third world grid Heil merkal
 
On the other hand American solar is kicking ass!!!


Really?

Can you please post up a graph for us showing where solar stacks up vs. coal, oil, gas and hydro for providing American electricity??

C'mon s0n.....post it up so we can all see how much solar is "kicking ass".:2up:

Now don't be a faggot weenie and disappear, heh?
 
Well, solar is the second biggest source of installed energy the past 2 years. Sure it is starting out from a small percentage but that is growing...

Can we at least agree that solar is growing and coal is becoming a smaller percentage of energy.
 
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"The U.S. is indeed the fastest developed growth market for solar globally and in 2016 will be the highest growth market overall," said Mohit Anand, GTM's senior analyst for Global Solar Market

http://www.computerworld.com/articl...t-to-smash-solar-power-records-this-year.html

No new coal plants at all. Wind and solar account for over 68% of all new generation in 2015.
 
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"The U.S. is indeed the fastest developed growth market for solar globally and in 2016 will be the highest growth market overall," said Mohit Anand, GTM's senior analyst for Global Solar Market

http://www.computerworld.com/articl...t-to-smash-solar-power-records-this-year.html

No new coal plants at all. Wind and solar account for over 68% of all new generation in 2015.

Yeah but despite the seemingly impressive growth, still only accounts for about 5% max of generating our electricity.

In 25 years, will still account for less than 10%.

IDK....some might be impressed with that number...........Im not.
 
Well, solar is the second biggest source of installed energy the past 2 years. Sure it is starting out from a small percentage but that is growing...

Can we at least agree that solar is growing and coal is becoming a smaller percentage of energy.
installed capacity that produces less than 17% of its name plate (capacity) value... and fails at the drop of a hat...crashing power grids globally.

If that's your definition of success I don't want it.. Just as the German people have discovered they also don't want it...
 
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"The U.S. is indeed the fastest developed growth market for solar globally and in 2016 will be the highest growth market overall," said Mohit Anand, GTM's senior analyst for Global Solar Market

U.S. set to smash solar power records this year

No new coal plants at all. Wind and solar account for over 68% of all new generation in 2015.

Yeah but despite the seemingly impressive growth, still only accounts for about 5% max of generating our electricity.

In 25 years, will still account for less than 10%.

IDK....some might be impressed with that number...........Im not.
Name plate (installed potential) is far more than realized output.. only about 17%...
 
duh..........who couldn't see this coming? And I will say..........Im laughing.

Germans call it ‘Energiewende’......turning out to be a complete and utter failure!!!:oops-28: Perhaps some German's wont mind taking a risk of freezing their balls off to go green but the government certainly wont take the risk.....ummmm...............more duh.



The End of the Energiewende?
Energy Post Weekly
Heiner Flassbeck
10 January 2017

Stable high-pressure winter weather has resulted in a confrontation. An Energiewende that relies mainly on wind and solar energy will not work in the long run. One cannot forgo nuclear power, eliminate fossil fuels, and tell people that electricity supplies will remain secure all the same.

We have attempted unsuccessfully to find Energiewende advocates willing to explain that inconsistency. Their silence is not easy to fathom. But maybe the events themselves have made the outcome inevitable.

With nuclear power no longer available, a capacity of at least 50 gigawatts is required by other means, despite an enormously expanded network of wind turbines and solar systems

This winter could go down in history as the event that proved the German energy transition to be unsubstantiated and incapable of becoming a success story. Electricity from wind and solar generation has been catastrophically low for several weeks. December brought new declines. A persistent winter high-pressure system with dense fog throughout Central Europe has been sufficient to unmask the fairy tale of a successful energy transition, even for me as a lay person.

Will Germany’s Winter Wind & Solar Power Collapse Mean the End of the ‘Energiewende’?



As Ive been saying for 25 years........renewable energy as a prime source of energy is nothing but a fantasy embraced by suckers. It is not happening now and will never happen. The people of Germany are seeing what a joke it really is this winter.

Fairy tales are ghey.........and the consensus science will continue to not matter.:deal:
seems more like, "chickens little" mustering instead of well regulated militia.

better aqueducts, better roads, and better windmills, along with more well regulated militia; can make wing energy happen, anywhere it may be windy.
 
better aqueducts, better roads, and better windmills, along with more well regulated militia; can make wing energy happen, anywhere it may be windy.
Wind Energy has already failed where it is the windiest, it will never work, it has failed for the last 40 years in California, how many more years and how many more billions do you think it will take to fix the problems.
 
California imports more power every year, from out of state. California imports power from Coal burning plants in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Solar has failed in California. Wind in California is the same story, not one original Wind Power company exists, they all went bankrupt, sold the assets, then the next company went bankrupt, sold the assets. Then the wind turbines start to break down, the costs rise rapidly, and the company goes bankrupt. Over and over, and over. The solution is always more money, more wind mills and solar panels, to build more, faster and bigger. All that building creates pollution, toxic waste, and CO2, which the idiots never ever mention. It is as if they really believe they pick Wind Turbines and Solar Panels off an Apple tree. The idiocy is beyond compare. The only thing to do is to call them morons.
 
better aqueducts, better roads, and better windmills, along with more well regulated militia; can make wing energy happen, anywhere it may be windy.
Wind Energy has already failed where it is the windiest, it will never work, it has failed for the last 40 years in California, how many more years and how many more billions do you think it will take to fix the problems.

Why do you believe it has failed?

Washington, D.C. — The United States continues to lead the world in wind energy production according to recently released data by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Over 31 percent of Iowa’s in-state electricity generation came from wind last year – marking another major milestone. This is the first time wind has supplied a state with more than 30 percent of its annual electricity. Iowa, Kansas and South Dakota all generated more than 20 percent of their electricity from wind in 2015.--http://www.awea.org/MediaCenter/pressrelease.aspx?ItemNumber=8463
 
duh..........who couldn't see this coming? And I will say..........Im laughing.

Germans call it ‘Energiewende’......turning out to be a complete and utter failure!!!:oops-28: Perhaps some German's wont mind taking a risk of freezing their balls off to go green but the government certainly wont take the risk.....ummmm...............more duh.



The End of the Energiewende?
Energy Post Weekly
Heiner Flassbeck
10 January 2017

Stable high-pressure winter weather has resulted in a confrontation. An Energiewende that relies mainly on wind and solar energy will not work in the long run. One cannot forgo nuclear power, eliminate fossil fuels, and tell people that electricity supplies will remain secure all the same.

We have attempted unsuccessfully to find Energiewende advocates willing to explain that inconsistency. Their silence is not easy to fathom. But maybe the events themselves have made the outcome inevitable.

With nuclear power no longer available, a capacity of at least 50 gigawatts is required by other means, despite an enormously expanded network of wind turbines and solar systems

This winter could go down in history as the event that proved the German energy transition to be unsubstantiated and incapable of becoming a success story. Electricity from wind and solar generation has been catastrophically low for several weeks. December brought new declines. A persistent winter high-pressure system with dense fog throughout Central Europe has been sufficient to unmask the fairy tale of a successful energy transition, even for me as a lay person.

Will Germany’s Winter Wind & Solar Power Collapse Mean the End of the ‘Energiewende’?



As Ive been saying for 25 years........renewable energy as a prime source of energy is nothing but a fantasy embraced by suckers. It is not happening now and will never happen. The people of Germany are seeing what a joke it really is this winter.

Fairy tales are ghey.........and the consensus science will continue to not matter.:deal:

Judging by Germany's two wars they started and how it ended for them, they don't seem to have the best judgment.

We can only speculate when they will start the third world war.
 
California imports more power every year, from out of state. California imports power from Coal burning plants in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Solar has failed in California. Wind in California is the same story, not one original Wind Power company exists, they all went bankrupt, sold the assets, then the next company went bankrupt, sold the assets. Then the wind turbines start to break down, the costs rise rapidly, and the company goes bankrupt. Over and over, and over. The solution is always more money, more wind mills and solar panels, to build more, faster and bigger. All that building creates pollution, toxic waste, and CO2, which the idiots never ever mention. It is as if they really believe they pick Wind Turbines and Solar Panels off an Apple tree. The idiocy is beyond compare. The only thing to do is to call them morons.
I believe we should be advancing fusion (an energy with a future), anyway.
 
California imports more power every year, from out of state. California imports power from Coal burning plants in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Solar has failed in California. Wind in California is the same story, not one original Wind Power company exists, they all went bankrupt, sold the assets, then the next company went bankrupt, sold the assets. Then the wind turbines start to break down, the costs rise rapidly, and the company goes bankrupt. Over and over, and over. The solution is always more money, more wind mills and solar panels, to build more, faster and bigger. All that building creates pollution, toxic waste, and CO2, which the idiots never ever mention. It is as if they really believe they pick Wind Turbines and Solar Panels off an Apple tree. The idiocy is beyond compare. The only thing to do is to call them morons.
I believe we should be advancing fusion (an energy with a future), anyway.
Fission is here, now. It is not like we can not make power, electricity, cheaply and safely, forever, with current technology.
 
Why do you believe it has failed?
Because it is very weak, very expensive, and reliant upon fossil fuels to be built, maintained, and replaced. Because it requires us to work for others, it requires me to pay for others electricity. Because it kills millions of birds, bats. Because it destroys miles of land, ridgelines. Because they are 300 foot tall monstrosities industrializing the rural country. Because they leak oil.
 
Ill wind: Farmers find problems with wind power generators


More than a dozen grain and livestock producers who purchased wind turbines to cut energy costs and help the environment have had nothing but problems. The company that sold the turbines --- Earth Linked Energy Solutions of Story City --- is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Customers say the turbines cost far more than they've saved.

Attempts to reach Earth Linked owners Laura Royal and Nate Ante were unsuccessful.

The windmills, according to some owners, are beset with mechanical problems and often sit idle --- sometimes for months at a time. Other Earth Linked customers say turbines aren't as productive as company officials led them to believe. One producer said Earth Linked promised government aid to help pay for the project that never materialized.
 
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