Reality Bites: Germany’s Wind & Solar Transition Declared Abject Failure

Renewables, money to run out before stupidity

Andrew Quin

A study involving The University of Melbourne, The University of Queensland, Princeton University’s Andlinger Centre for Energy and Environment, and Nous Group, provided an analysis of Australia’s path to achieving net zero carbon emissions, saying Australia would need $1.5 trillion to build out enough renewables to meet 2050 targets.

The average person has no idea how much a trillion dollars is, so let’s clarify it. Go back a trillion seconds and Neanderthals were on the Earth, and not just in Canberra as they still are today. Australia’s entire GDP is approx. US$1.5 Trillion, That is the entire output of the country in a year.

The report estimates the workforce needed to install and operate new generation assets, transmission lines, and decarbonisation efforts to be at least 200,000 people by 2030 and potentially reach 700,000-850,000 people by 2060, comprising up to 4% of Australia’s total workforce.

The likely scenario is that in coming decades it will be so obvious that renewables with existing technology, cannot replace fossil fuels and that Co2 cannot be adjusted to fine tune the climate to the average punter’s liking, the whole renewables thing will be either cancelled, or the economy will be so wrecked, that there will not be enough money or ability to raised Debt capital to carry out the climate control fantasy.

“one German State’s Prime Minister, Michael Kretschmer has come out and said what everyone has known all along: Germany’s asserted wind and solar transition is nothing short of a failure – one designed by dimwitted ideologues and cunning profiteers.”

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So the people to feel sorry for are the Australian’s doing it tough financially as Green renewables racketeers make off will billions, nay trillions of dollars that could have been spent on something to improve their lot in life.

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Reality Bites: Germany’s Wind & Solar Transition Declared Abject Failure

The German government’s cultish obsession with wind and solar is a mixture of wishful thinking and mass delusion. Both have collided with reality as Vlad Putin continues to put the squeeze on Europe’s gas supplies – gas which has been used to run the banks of fast-start-up gas turbines essential to backing up mammoth, sudden and unpredictable collapses in wind and solar output.

Brave talk about wiping out nuclear and coal-fired power plants has largely evaporated.

And one German State’s Prime Minister, Michael Kretschmer has come out and said what everyone has known all along: Germany’s asserted wind and solar transition is nothing short of a failure – one designed by dimwitted ideologues and cunning profiteers.

Energy Crisis: State Prime Minister Declares Green Energy Transition Has ‘Failed’
Breitbart
Peter Caddle
1 August 2022

Germany’s green energy transition from carbon fuels and nuclear energy to renewables has “failed”, a state Prime Minister has declared.

Germany’s green energy transition efforts to see the country move from using fossil fuels and nuclear energy and toward green renewables have “failed”, the Prime Minister of German Federal state Saxony has declared, before demanding the country’s government to rethink its abandonment of nuclear to avert disaster.

Having gotten itself addicted to Russian gas exports, Germany had for a long time held on to the belief that pushing its climate crazy green agenda harder would solve its energy problems, and that the country would be able to shut down all of its nuclear power stations without issue.

According to a report by Handelsblatt, however, as the country faces the possibility of gas shortages and blackouts over the winter months, Saxony Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer has labelled the government’s green transition a failure, and is now demanding that the country’s remaining nuclear power stations stay online.

“The energy transition with gas as the base load has failed,” he reportedly said, with the publication noting that — even before the current gas crisis — green energy struggled to supply sufficient power in the country last winter.

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