Not a day goes by without the North American media bragging about the "success" of Germany`s green power. What they don`t tell you is at what price that "success" came.
Not just financially damaging but also savagely damaging a lot of what was until then an unmarred Black Forest.
The only way solar and wind power can satisfy a power on demand grid is to be able to store excess energy during low demand time periods so that it can supply enough power during peak demand times.
German Engineers have solved this problem with power storage systems that are called Pumpspeicherkraftwerk.
You can Google using this word but then you`ll never find an accurate translation or the popular outrage that came too late after Germans could see what the impact was on their environment.
A Pumpspeicherkraftwerk uses excess solar and wind power to pump water up into huge concrete storage basins that reverse the flow on demand and generate hydro electric power.
The artist`s concept looks rather innocuous, but in reality it looks like this:
And more and more hilltop forests are decapitated to look like this Hornbecken Pumpspeicherkraftwerk in the Black Forest :
They are growing in numbers as if "Bomber Harris" was at it again cratering the German country side carpet bombing it with huge block buster bombs.
Even the Swiss had enough of it when these power systems sprouted up in their country and now they vote against it in town hall meetings all over the place like in Altdorf:
Altdorf Online: Abstimmungen
~1600 against ~ 800 pro.
Even though it`s not funny, the thought how dismayed the greenies in the US would be is, once they would see these ugly basins on every hilltop in the Appalachians after they have been clearcut to make room for the wind turbines, the solar field, the basins and the pipelines.
Not just financially damaging but also savagely damaging a lot of what was until then an unmarred Black Forest.
The only way solar and wind power can satisfy a power on demand grid is to be able to store excess energy during low demand time periods so that it can supply enough power during peak demand times.
German Engineers have solved this problem with power storage systems that are called Pumpspeicherkraftwerk.
You can Google using this word but then you`ll never find an accurate translation or the popular outrage that came too late after Germans could see what the impact was on their environment.
A Pumpspeicherkraftwerk uses excess solar and wind power to pump water up into huge concrete storage basins that reverse the flow on demand and generate hydro electric power.
The artist`s concept looks rather innocuous, but in reality it looks like this:
And more and more hilltop forests are decapitated to look like this Hornbecken Pumpspeicherkraftwerk in the Black Forest :
They are growing in numbers as if "Bomber Harris" was at it again cratering the German country side carpet bombing it with huge block buster bombs.
Even the Swiss had enough of it when these power systems sprouted up in their country and now they vote against it in town hall meetings all over the place like in Altdorf:
Altdorf Online: Abstimmungen
~1600 against ~ 800 pro.
Even though it`s not funny, the thought how dismayed the greenies in the US would be is, once they would see these ugly basins on every hilltop in the Appalachians after they have been clearcut to make room for the wind turbines, the solar field, the basins and the pipelines.
