Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t JoNova; Bye bye German green revolution – “There are no taboos on deliberations”, according to senior Green Party member Robert Habeck.
Nuclear, coal, LNG: ‘no taboos’ in Germany’s energy about-face
By Christoph Steitz, Riham Alkousaa and Maria Sheahan
BERLIN, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Germany signalled a U-turn in key energy policies on Sunday, floating the possibility of extending the life-spans of coal and even nuclear plants to cut dependency on Russian gas, part of a broad political rethink following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
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In a landmark speech on Sunday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz spelled out a more radical path to ensure Germany will be able to meet rising energy supply and diversify away from Russian gas, which accounts for half of Germany’s energy needs.
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“We must change course to overcome our dependence on imports from individual energy suppliers,” he said.
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Germany is also weighing whether to extend the life-span of its remaining nuclear power plants as a way to secure the country’s energy supply, the country’s economy minister Robert Habeck, a member of the Greens, said.
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Habeck also said letting coal-fired power plants to run longer than planned was an option, throwing into doubt Germany’s ambitious exit from coal, which is planned for 2030.
“There are no taboos on deliberations,” Habeck said, adding that it was Germany’s goal to ultimately choose which country will supply its energy.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-step-up-plans-cut-dependence-russia-gas-2022-02-27/
Germany needs an immediate solution to real energy problems caused by the Ukraine crisis, problems which cannot be solved by costly fake solutions like wind and solar.
Let us hope Green Party member Robert Habeck’s lead will inspire other Western politicians, to prioritise energy security over virtue signalling.
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Under pressure, everything becomes fluid
The world woke up and had to find a way to elegantly have a reason to push back on the green agenda.
Abandon downvoting!!! If someone is trolling you, then downvoting is actually encouragement. If you want to see griff and Barry go away, then stop voting or commenting on their posts.
Who wants them to go away?
They are so much FUN! 😀
Heh. Last check, Barry was at MINUS 70!
Go, Barry.
Lololol
We want them to stay the humor an stupidity is actually quite entertaining.
I rarely downvote your oily comments
Check out the funny satire on Brandon’s STOU tonight. https://babylonbee.com/news/state-of-the-union-will-just-be-90-minute-broadcast-of-dumpster-engulfed-in-flames
That’s what they ought to show, because that’s what the Biden administration is: A Dumpster fire.
Biden has a Bizarro administration. Everything he does is just the opposite of what he should do, If he were looking out for the American people.
Everything he does is just the opposite of what he should do
I’ve been asking “If you wanted to intentionally destroy the United States, what would you do differently?”
Fifty years late, unfortunately. Their politics has got some way to go to catch up with their engineering skills.
I wonder who will really be first to manufacture large numbers of small modular reactors?
So Germany is now planning to meet their 2020 CO2 goals in 2040 instead of 2030. Got it.
Reality has a way of biting one in the backside!
Necessity is the mother of reinvention. Some children take longer to work out their parents weren’t stupid.
A great many people around the world take a very long time to work out that the political parties that they have voted into power do not have a clue how to govern their countries.
Unfortunately it takes a crisis to wake up electors to the damage many governments have inflicted on their countries in the name of climate change and zero carbon .
Germany is prepared should Russia stop exporting gas to the country, minister for the economy Robert Habeck has said.
Asked by Deutschlandfunk radio what the government would do if Russia stops gas exports, Reuters reports Habeck replied
‘We are prepared for that. I can give the all-clear for the current winter and summer. For the next winter, we would take further measures.’
Habeck pointed to planned new legislation to ensure gas storage is full for winter.
“So we are also taking precautions for the worst case, which has not happened yet because the Russians are delivering,” he said, adding that in a worse case scenario Berlin could keep “coal-fired power plants in reserve, maybe even keep them running”, but that it was committed to moving to renewables in the medium-term.
What’s the definition of “medium-term” here?
It’s politician speak for “I haven’t a clue”
Double dumb ass on them. Of course they need to keep their coal-burning and nuclear generation going. Or thousands of elderly Germans will die of hypothermia in cold, dark houses as the blackouts of longer duration start occurring in greater numbers. Please, all you Germans, the Greens helped make you vulnerable to the idiotic Russian government. Never, ever vote for a Green Party member again!
Funny how US President Joe Biden didn’t mention any these ideas in his State Of The Union speech last night.
“Funny?” Hardly. Unsurprising, certainly.
I saw the light
I saw the light
No more darkness
No more night –
Now I’m so happy
No sorrow in sight
Praise the Lord
I saw the light
Not wishing to be bell ended by the Germans, the Public Accounts Committee of the UK Parliament has declared The Climate Change Committee of the UK Parliaments’ costs and projections for Net Zero by 2050 “heroic assumptions”
British management speak at its best, an example that the English speaking world could never match…_
https://www.netzerowatch.com/government-abandons-official-net-zero-cost-estimate/
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/599602
HAs the German “Green Party” finally realized that Russia played a large part of the radicalization of their members against Nuclear power?
I just hope work is in progress to shut Russian gas off for good.