By P Gosselin
Wind energy installation stalls, firewood becomes scarce as Germany shuts down its coal and nuclear power, sees gas stockpiles dwindles away.
As natural gas and oil for heating skyrockets, many Germans are now turning to firewood as a way to keep warm this coming winter. But now firewood is getting rare too, and prices are skyrocketing. The German online Merkur reports of “exploding demand”.
According to firewood dealer Konrad Kötterl. “Some people are panicking about not being able to get any more wood.” As a result, they’re stockpiling. Normally, he has three to four orders a day in the summer. “Right now, it’s 20 to 30.”
Personally, I called a local firewood dealer earlier in the week. They told me they have none left and that they could put me down on a waiting list.
Wind turbine woes
Meanwhile, Die kalte Sonne here reports on how wind energy installation is moving along only at a snail’s pace, and so will never be able to rescue Germany from its accelerating energy demise:
“Germany’s government The expansion of wind energy is making only snail-like progress. The German Tagesschau reports, but forgets to clarify that the 57,000 megawatts are rated nominal capacity. While this could theoretically be achieved, in practice it almost never is.
In the first half of 2022, 238 new wind turbines were installed with a combined capacity of 977 megawatts. This means that the speed of wind power expansion is similar to the same period last year – it has even decreased slightly, explained the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) and the VDMA machine and plant building association.
Since old turbines were also decommissioned, the so-called net addition in the first half of the year was 878 megawatts, which is slightly more than in the previous year’s comparison. According to the report, at the end of the first half of the year, there were 28,000 wind turbines in Germany with a total capacity of just under 57,000 megawatts.’
What is astonishing in the report are the figures on employees in the industry. Currently there are 100,000, but there had once been 40,000 – 50,000 more. That’s not really much when measured against a total of more than 40 million jobs subject to social security contributions. Renewable energies are often portrayed as a job miracle machine, but the potential is limited and modest, especially compared to other industries.”
The energy situation in Germany has deteriorated so much that Swiss publicist Roland Tichy asks: “Are we on the path back to the Stone Age?”
Well, at least Sone Age people had enough firewood.
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How are supplies of animal dung holding up? Must have become VERY expensive!
The Germans are smarter than this, what has become of them?
“firewood becomes scarce as Germany shuts down its coal and nuclear power,…”
There’s a lot of trees in Russia, though I don’t think Napoleon or Mr Hilter brought many back with them.
Gawd the leftist are scum and dum. Get them out of power at all costs. They are ruinous, authoritarian pukes! Dangerous to all living souls.
“now firewood is getting rare too“. How is that possible?!?! The Germans just agreed to cut down forests to make way for wind turbines. That should have given them enough wood to last at least this winter.
Oh wait… “The expansion of wind energy is making only snail-like progress“. I guess most of the forest is still standing.
“Well, at least S(t)one Age people had enough firewood”
But then, they didn’t have too many people.
Now it gets more worser:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/germanys-crisis-about-get-even-worse-rhine-water-levels-plummet
Game over:
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/gazprom-declares-force-majeure-will-halt-gas-flows-germany-indefinitely
German Govt. Laughed when TRUMP told them what was going to happen, Laugh along with them.
Tell Ukraine no more money or weapons and to negotiate peace ASAP … They are taking us down the path to WWIII.
if the German people don’t want to freeze to death this winter, they should deal with their liberal progressive government.
Oh, wait… I forgot. Germany has no Second Amendment.
Viel Gluck, dumme Arschen.
It’s OK …. the politicians have theirs.
They did this to themselves – a country which has always been energy challenged has continued to find ways to thwart themselves.
Germany has great, but untapped geothermal resources. The need to start getting serious about investing in geothermal plants.
Now they will have to cut the trees down to accommodate the green wind mills. Smiles…walks away.
They can get more from their buddies the Ruskies.
Using up the wood to produce heat. Using up the wood to increase CO2 emissions since there are fewer trees to convert CO2 to oxygen. Maybe we can use fossil fuels to save the trees?
Time to import clean burning antracite coal to Germany from Pennsylvania.
Das ist schade lol