Energy Transition: Germans Revolt Against Wind Power – As Power Prices Spiral Out of Control

[excalibur]

Will we learn? Or will we be Bidenized?

Germany’s wind power transition has hit the wall: rural Germans are sick and tired of the noise, ruined landscapes and communities; and Germans of all persuasions are fed up with Europe’s highest power prices, which continue to rocket as a consequence of its so-called ‘renewable energy transition’ aka the ‘Energiewende’.

Thanks to massive subsidies and mandated targets, over 30,000 of these things have been speared into every last corner of Deutschland. But, as the team from Jo Nova explain below, the backlash against industrial wind power has brought the German wind industry to a shuddering halt.

Is this the future of wind all over the world?

The salad days of wind power in Germany are over. Bad news is rolling in from several directions. Twenty years of hope-n-subsidies has run aground. Profits are grinding down, and hardly any new towers are being erected. People are fighting back against the noise, the views, and the bird chopping. Conservationists might like the idea of wind, as long as it’s in someone else’s forest. Suddenly groups that oppose wind towers are gaining traction, and the red tape and legal battles have grown wings and settled on new developments like a bat plague.

New turbines are now supposed to be two kilometers from any home, and there just isn’t enough spare land to build them on. German wind farms are running out of Germany.

If only they were profitable and provided an essential service, they might still have friends.

...​

Energy Transition: Germans Revolt Against Wind Power – As Power Prices Spiral Out of Control

Germany’s wind power transition has hit the wall: rural Germans are sick and tired of the noise, ruined landscapes and communities; and Germans of all persuasions are fed up with Europe’s highest p…

stopthesethings.com

 

[Manonthestreet]

Why do they hate the planet....uuummmm..........ummmmmmmm

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

Will we learn? Or will we be Bidenized?

​

Germany’s wind power transition has hit the wall: rural Germans are sick and tired of the noise, ruined landscapes and communities; and Germans of all persuasions are fed up with Europe’s highest power prices, which continue to rocket as a consequence of its so-called ‘renewable energy transition’ aka the ‘Energiewende’.​

​

Thanks to massive subsidies and mandated targets, over 30,000 of these things have been speared into every last corner of Deutschland. But, as the team from Jo Nova explain below, the backlash against industrial wind power has brought the German wind industry to a shuddering halt.​

​

Is this the future of wind all over the world?​

​

The salad days of wind power in Germany are over. Bad news is rolling in from several directions. Twenty years of hope-n-subsidies has run aground. Profits are grinding down, and hardly any new towers are being erected. People are fighting back against the noise, the views, and the bird chopping. Conservationists might like the idea of wind, as long as it’s in someone else’s forest. Suddenly groups that oppose wind towers are gaining traction, and the red tape and legal battles have grown wings and settled on new developments like a bat plague.​

​

New turbines are now supposed to be two kilometers from any home, and there just isn’t enough spare land to build them on. German wind farms are running out of Germany.​

​

If only they were profitable and provided an essential service, they might still have friends.​

​

...​

Energy Transition: Germans Revolt Against Wind Power – As Power Prices Spiral Out of Control

Germany’s wind power transition has hit the wall: rural Germans are sick and tired of the noise, ruined landscapes and communities; and Germans of all persuasions are fed up with Europe’s highest p…

stopthesethings.com

Shutting down perfectly fine nuke plants seems silly.

Same move as the leftists have done in the US of A.

I see a pattern....

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Will we learn? Or will we be Bidenized?

​

Germany’s wind power transition has hit the wall: rural Germans are sick and tired of the noise, ruined landscapes and communities; and Germans of all persuasions are fed up with Europe’s highest power prices, which continue to rocket as a consequence of its so-called ‘renewable energy transition’ aka the ‘Energiewende’.​

​

Thanks to massive subsidies and mandated targets, over 30,000 of these things have been speared into every last corner of Deutschland. But, as the team from Jo Nova explain below, the backlash against industrial wind power has brought the German wind industry to a shuddering halt.​

​

Is this the future of wind all over the world?​

​

The salad days of wind power in Germany are over. Bad news is rolling in from several directions. Twenty years of hope-n-subsidies has run aground. Profits are grinding down, and hardly any new towers are being erected. People are fighting back against the noise, the views, and the bird chopping. Conservationists might like the idea of wind, as long as it’s in someone else’s forest. Suddenly groups that oppose wind towers are gaining traction, and the red tape and legal battles have grown wings and settled on new developments like a bat plague.​

​

New turbines are now supposed to be two kilometers from any home, and there just isn’t enough spare land to build them on. German wind farms are running out of Germany.​

​

If only they were profitable and provided an essential service, they might still have friends.​

​

...​

Energy Transition: Germans Revolt Against Wind Power – As Power Prices Spiral Out of Control

Germany’s wind power transition has hit the wall: rural Germans are sick and tired of the noise, ruined landscapes and communities; and Germans of all persuasions are fed up with Europe’s highest p…

stopthesethings.com

But they're saving the Earth.......

 

[jillian]

Shutting down perfectly fine nuke plants seems silly.

Same move as the leftists have done in the US of A.

I see a pattern....

I think nuclear power WOULD be fine if there was a safe means of disposing of waste.
But there isn’t.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

I think nuclear power WOULD be fine if there was a safe means of disposing of waste.
But there isn’t.

You're just like nuclear waste here dear.

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

I think nuclear power WOULD be fine if there was a safe means of disposing of waste.
But there isn’t.

Oh but there is:

Reprocessing.

Like other countries do.

Why Doesn't U.S. Recycle Nuclear Fuel?

The chattering class’s call for action on “climate change” overlooks a crucial point: to succeed, we need to increase reliance on nuclear power, the cleanest technology available, despite the vocal opposition from those who fear another Three-Mile Island or a more-serious disaster like Chernobyl...

www.forbes.com

 

[Votto]

Why do they hate the planet....uuummmm..........ummmmmmmm

They should shove all the wind mills in ovens and call it a day.

It's just what they do.

 

[Dekster]

Well Germany got itself in a pickle. First they have to pay their neighbors to take the excess power off the german grid so it doesn't melt on sunny/windy days; second they still have to pay 100% of the cost of the standby power that otherwise would be providing them all their power anyway; in addition they have to pay for the subsidies; and lastly the conservationists have turned on them because their wind turbines are chopping up the pretty migrating birdies.

California is on the same path.

 

[foggedinn]

Russian natural gas is their best current non-nuclear alternative for relatively low cost power. The US has been against it ever since it became available. Wind power was just wishing and hoping.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Germany gets flooded and Merkel claims it's climate change..,..and vows to spend gazillions.


Good grief

 

[asaratis]

Here's something that the hippies demanding wind power likely have no knowledge whatsoever.

...and that's just for the steel.

They likely also are so foolishly optimistic that they think a lifespan of 20 years for a single tower doesn't carry any maintenance costs. They likely dream of replacing all existing electric power plants with windmills and solar panels.

Here's one analysis of the wind side of that posit. Though it is based on replacing all power plants with wind power, even cutting his calculations in half still results in unattainable conditions.

Energy analyst David Wells has calculated that replacing 160,000 terawatt-hours of total global energy consumption with wind would require 183,400,000 turbines needing roughly: 461,000,000,000 tons (461 billion tons) of steel for the towers; 460,00,000,000 tons of steel and concrete for the foundations; 59,000,000,000 tons of copper, steel, and alloys for the turbines; 738,000,000 tons of neodymium for turbine magnets; 14,700,000,000 tons of steel and complex composite materials for the nacelles; 11,000,000,000 tons of complex petroleum-based composites for the rotors; and massive quantities of other raw materials – all of which must be mined, processed, manufactured into finished products, and shipped around the world.

Assuming 25 acres per turbine, the turbines would require 4,585,000,000 acres (1,855,500,000 hectares) – 1.3 times the land area of North America! Wells adds: Shipping just the iron ore to build the turbines would require nearly 3 million voyages in huge ships that would consume 13 billion tons of bunker fuel (heavy oil) in the process. And converting that ore to iron and steel would require 473 billion tons of coking coal, demanding another 1.2 million sea voyages, consuming another 6 billion tons of bunker fuel.


For sustainability disciples: Does Earth have enough of these raw materials for this transformation?

It gets worse. These numbers do not include the ultra-long transmission lines required to carry electricity from windy locations to distant cities. Moreover, Irina Slav notes, wind turbines, solar panels and solar thermal installations cannot produce high enough heat to melt silica, iron, or other metals, and certainly cannot generate the required power on a reliable enough basis to operate smelters and factories.

The entire article is worth reading if you're interested.

The True & Staggering Environmental Cost of Wind & Solar Power: Unsustainable Energy Defined

For the uninitiated, the sight of snow white wind turbines flailing in the breeze in some green field reinforces that feel-good notion that wind power is the crème de la crème of ‘green ener…

stopthesethings.com

 

[asaratis]

...and this video (only 5 minutes 35 seconds) explains the costs to our environment of high dependence on wind, solar and battery power.

 

[Rye Catcher]

I think nuclear power WOULD be fine if there was a safe means of disposing of waste.
But there isn’t.

Plans for New Nuclear Reactors Worldwide - World Nuclear Association

Plans for New Nuclear Reactors Worldwide. Information on the growth of global nuclear capacity with a table showing all under construction reactors.

www.world-nuclear.org

Next Generation Nuclear Power

New, safer and more economical nuclear reactors could not only satisfy many of our future energy needs but could combat global warming as well

www.scientificamerican.com