**** If you're going down to the German woods today, beware of a big surprise. Although it won't be cuddly Teddys with well-stocked picnic baskets and wonderful games to play - chances are it'll be a power starved German armed with an axe, looking to filch a pile of timber to cook his bratwurst and … Continue reading Wind Power Costs send Germans back to the Stone Age
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Wind Power: Germany’s Road to Economic & Social Disaster
**** In our last post we covered the fact that German economists have (uncharacteristically) united in their opposition to Germany's renewables policy - referred to as the "Energiewende" - which has seen thousands of giant fans - and millions of solar panels - rolled out across Deutschland: one of their number, Max Planck concluding that … Continue reading Wind Power: Germany’s Road to Economic & Social Disaster
German Wind Power Policy: an Economic Suicide Pact
**** For anyone looking for a taste of Australia’s economic future, then look no further than Germany. For that reason, over the next few posts, STT is going to have a close look at the debacle that is German wind power policy and its disastrous impacts on German business and households. Germany’s renewable policy - … Continue reading German Wind Power Policy: an Economic Suicide Pact
Mum & Dad Investors Fleeced as German Wind Power Hits the Wall
**** Thousands of well meaning German mums and dads - conned by wind weasel's lies and promises of fat returns - invested their hard-earned Euros in hundreds of wind projects - now they're watching their cash fast disappearing - like confetti in a cyclone. Meanwhile, to make matters worse, German leader Angela Merkel is shutting … Continue reading Mum & Dad Investors Fleeced as German Wind Power Hits the Wall
Wind Power: All Pain & NO Gain
Germans have woken up to the horrendous fact that their renewables rush has left them with an electricity grid on the brink of collapse, soaring power prices and that it was all for nothing. Instead of reducing CO2 emissions, the Germans have spent €billions subsidising thousands of giant fans and - despite the grandest of … Continue reading Wind Power: All Pain & NO Gain
German Wind Power does what the Dambusters couldn’t do
**** On the night of 16/17 May 1943, RAF No. 617 Squadron aka the “Dambusters” set out in 19 Avro Lancaster MKIII bombers armed with Barnes Wallis’s revolutionary bouncing bomb - in what was called Operation Chastise. The purpose of the famous raid was to attack 3 major dams on the Ruhr in Germany: the … Continue reading German Wind Power does what the Dambusters couldn’t do
Wind Power: Germany’s Fatal Attraction
All lies and promises – the wind industry has finally been rumbled in Germany and is about to be shown the door in Australia. Wind weasels and their parasites have been guilty of more than just a little hubris. Claiming to be able to deliver cheap, reliable sparks was always going to be their undoing. … Continue reading Wind Power: Germany’s Fatal Attraction
German Offshore Fan Plan almost Kaput
The bigger they come, the harder they fall. And none will fall harder than the German wind weasel. Germans have woken up to the obscene costs of supporting a power generation system based on perverse ideology – rather than economic (or even common) sense. Here’s Der Spiegel on how the scam is grinding to a … Continue reading German Offshore Fan Plan almost Kaput
Europe: back to the Dark Ages?
**** Energy Bosses Call for End to Subsidies for Wind, Solar Power Group Includes CEOs From Eni, GDF Suez and E.ON The Wall Street Journal Géraldine Amiel 11 October 2013 BRUSSELS - Top executives of companies that provide half of Europe’s electricity production capacity on Friday called on politicians to end “distorting” subsidies for wind … Continue reading Europe: back to the Dark Ages?
Germans on the brink of power price precipice
Soaring renewable energy costs set to stoke German energy debate Financial Times Chris Bryant (in Frankfurt) 15 October 2013 The cumulative total that German consumers have spent subsidising green energy is set to pass €100bn next year, a symbolic mark that could fuel further political debate about the country’s costly energy transition to renewables. The … Continue reading Germans on the brink of power price precipice
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