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2022-01-06 04:56:55 UTC
Bonus-Bonus: The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because
They Were Never Meant To
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 13:53:39 -0600, Unum says...
Whataya say, pussy-boy. Will it, or won't it lower electric bills?
Oh, and another thing. What happened, Pussy-Boy?
This is sad... the NEWEST AND BESTEST new energy has fallen. HOW can that
BE!!??
I guess it's like global warmING... it's NOT warmING... it's coolING. LOL If it
was warmING, we wouldn't have ANY cooling, or more snow or cooler temperatures.
The "climate" is doing exactly what it's always done... changed randomly, not
linearly.
Wind Power Drops By A Third In Quarter 3
Wind Power Drops By A Third In Q3
The latest energy trends data have been published by BEIS:
https://149366104.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-
content/uploads/2022/01/image_thumb.png
It is quite shocking to see that wind generation has fallen by 38% for onshore
and 24% for offshore year on year. This is despite new capacity being added.
We are familiar with short term drops in output, maybe for a few days or even
weeks. But to lose effectively a third of generation for a whole quarter shows
just how dangerous over reliance on wind power is.
The difference was made up largely from imports, which doubled:
https://149366104.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/image_thumb-
1.png
How long we can count on that is anybody's guess.
Keep sucking that dick, pansy-boy.
Why so darn gay?
You mad, sis?
=====
The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were
Never Meant To
Over the last decade, journalists have held up Germany's renewables energy
transition, the Energiewende, as an environmental model for the world.
"Many poor countries, once intent on building coal-fired power plants to bring
electricity to their people, are discussing whether they might leapfrog the
fossil age and build clean grids from the outset," thanks to the Energiewende,
wrote a New York Times reporter in 2014.
With Germany as inspiration, the United Nations and World Bank poured billions
into renewables like wind, solar, and hydro in developing nations like Kenya.
But then, last year, Germany was forced to acknowledge that it had to delay its
phase-out of coal, and would not meet its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction
commitments. It announced plans to bulldoze an ancient church and forest in
order to get at the coal underneath it.
After renewables investors and advocates, including Al Gore and Greenpeace,
criticized Germany, journalists came to the country's defense. "Germany has
fallen short of its emission targets in part because its targets were so
ambitious," one of them argued last summer.
"If the rest of the world made just half Germany's effort, the future for our
planet would look less bleak," she wrote. "So Germany, don't give up. And also:
Thank you."
But Germany didn't just fall short of its climate targets. Its emissions have
flat-lined since 2009.
Now comes a major article in the country's largest newsweekly magazine, Der
Spiegel, titled, "A Botched Job in Germany" ("Murks in Germany"). The
magazine's cover shows broken wind turbines and incomplete electrical
transmission towers against a dark silhouette of Berlin.
"The Energiewende - the biggest political project since reunification -
threatens to fail," write Der Spiegel's Frank Dohmen, Alexander Jung, Stefan
Schultz, Gerald Traufetter in their a 5,700-word investigative story.
Over the past five years alone, the Energiewende has cost Germany Eu32 billion
($36 billion) annually, and opposition to renewables is growing in the German
countryside.
"The politicians fear citizen resistance" Der Spiegel reports. "There is hardly
a wind energy project that is not fought."
In response, politicians sometimes order "electrical lines be buried
underground but that is many times more expensive and takes years longer."
As a result, the deployment of renewables and related transmission lines is
slowing rapidly. Less than half as many wind turbines (743) were installed in
2018 as were installed in 2017, and just 30 kilometers of new transmission were
added in 2017.
Solar and wind advocates say cheaper solar panels and wind turbines will make
the future growth in renewables cheaper than past growth but there are reasons
to believe the opposite will be the case.
It will cost Germany $3-$4 trillion to increase renewables as share of
electricity from today's 35%... [+] to 100% between 2025-2050
It will cost Germany $3-$4 trillion to increase renewables as share of
electricity from today's 35%... [+] AG Energiebinlanzen
Der Spiegel cites a recent estimate that it would cost Germany "Eu3.4 trillion
($3.8 trillion)," or seven times more than it spent from 2000 to 2025, to
increase solar and wind three to five-fold by 2050.
Between 2000 and 2019, Germany grew renewables from 7% to 35% of its
electricity. And as much of Germany's renewable electricity comes from biomass,
which scientists view as polluting and environmentally degrading, as from
solar.
Of the 7,700 new kilometers of transmission lines needed, only 8% have been
built, while large-scale electricity storage remains inefficient and expensive.
"A large part of the energy used is lost," the reporters note of a much-hyped
hydrogen gas project, "and the efficiency is below 40%... No viable business
model can be developed from this."
Meanwhile, the 20-year subsidies granted to wind, solar, and biogas since 2000
will start coming to an end next year. "The wind power boom is over," Der
Spiegel concludes.
All of which raises a question: if renewables can't cheaply power Germany, one
of the richest and most technologically advanced countries in the world, how
could a developing nation like Kenya ever expect them to allow it to
"leapfrog" fossil fuels?
The Question of Technology
The earliest and most sophisticated 20th Century case for renewables came from
a German who is widely considered the most influential philosopher of the 20th
Century, Martin Heidegger.
In his 1954 essay, "The Question Concerning of Technology," Heidegger condemned
the view of nature as a mere resource for human consumption.
The use of "modern technology," he wrote, "puts to nature the unreasonable
demand that it supply energy which can be extracted and stored as such... Air
is now set upon to yield nitrogen, the earth to yield ore, ore to yield
uranium... to yield atomic energy."
The solution, Heidegger argued, was to yoke human society and its economy to
unreliable energy flows. He even condemned hydro-electric dams, for dominating
the natural environment, and praised windmills because they "do not unlock
energy in order to store it."
These weren't just aesthetic preferences. Windmills have traditionally been
useful to farmers whereas large dams have allowed poor agrarian societies to
industrialize.
In the US, Heidegger's views were picked up by renewable energy advocates.
Barry Commoner in 1969 argued that a transition to renewables was needed to
bring modern civilization "into harmony with the ecosphere."
The goal of renewables was to turn modern industrial societies back into
agrarian ones, argued Murray Bookchin in his 1962 book, Our Synthetic
Environment.
Bookchin admitted his proposal "conjures up an image of cultural isolation and
social stagnation, of a journey backward in history to the agrarian societies
of the medieval and ancient worlds."
But then, starting around the year 2000, renewables started to gain a high-tech
luster. Governments and private investors poured $2 trillion into solar and
wind and related infrastructure, creating the impression that renewables were
profitable aside from subsidies.
Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk proclaimed that a rich, high-energy civilization
could be powered by cheap solar panels and electric cars.
Journalists reported breathlessly on the cost declines in batteries, imagining
a tipping point at which conventional electricity utilities would be
"disrupted."
But no amount of marketing could change the poor physics of resource-intensive
and land-intensive renewables. Solar farms take 450 times more land than
nuclear plants, and wind farms take 700 times more land than natural gas wells,
to produce the same amount of energy.
Efforts to export the Energiewende to developing nations may prove even more
devastating.
The new wind farm in Kenya, inspired and financed by Germany and other well-
meaning Western nations, is located on a major flight path of migratory birds.
============================================================================
The Global Average Temperature Dropped 0.29C Last Month - Now Sits At Just
0.08C Above The 30-Year Baseline
School Cancelled In Yakutia, Russia As Temperatures Plunge To -50C (-58F)
Record-Breaking Cold Continues To Grip Western Canada
"Red Alerts" Issued In India As Cold Wave Intensifies
Amid Freezing Lows & Energy Shortages, Europe Struggles To Keep The Lights On
Bhopal, India Suffers Lowest Temp In 55 Years
"Hazardous" Freeze To Hit The Prairies
Rare Polar Stratospheric Clouds Spotted
Europe Forecast A Bitterly Cold and Snowy Christmas
Colder Winter Headed For U.S. With Incoming 'Polar Vortex'
"Unprecedented" Cold Wave Is Hitting Scandinavia
Alaska Suffers "Persistent Record-Shattering Cold"
A Freezing Start To Winter Is "Rapidly Depleting" Europe's Gas Reserves
St. Petersburg's "Deep Freeze" Breaks 1893 Record
Sweden Busts All-Time December Low (-46.8F)
Bethel, Alaska Suffered Its Coldest November in 82 Years
Australia Suffered Coldest Nov Since 1999
Monthly Lows (And Rare Snows) Fall in Hawaii
Record Cold Grips Siberia (-68.3F)
Canada Sees Lowest November Temp Since 2004 (-45.6F)
Low Temperature Records Continue to Fall Across Europe
Australia's NSW Suffers Coldest November On Record
Record Lows Grip Europe
Sweden Registers -37.4C (-35.3F)
UK Schools Forced To Shut, + Bigger Freeze Inbound
Nordic Power Prices Surge On Sub-Zero Temps And Low Winds
Danger To Life' Warning Issued In Scotland
Spain Issues 'Cold Weather Alerts' - Restarts Old Coal Power Plant To Cope
In 2021 (To Date), A Total of 222 All-Time Low Temperature Records Have Been
Broken In The United States, Versus Just The 7 For All-Time High
They Were Never Meant To
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 13:53:39 -0600, Unum says...
The project, known as Mammoth Solar, will cover 13,000 acres, spread across
two counties...
And it STILL won't lower energy costs to the consumer.two counties...
Whataya say, pussy-boy. Will it, or won't it lower electric bills?
Oh, and another thing. What happened, Pussy-Boy?
This is sad... the NEWEST AND BESTEST new energy has fallen. HOW can that
BE!!??
I guess it's like global warmING... it's NOT warmING... it's coolING. LOL If it
was warmING, we wouldn't have ANY cooling, or more snow or cooler temperatures.
The "climate" is doing exactly what it's always done... changed randomly, not
linearly.
Wind Power Drops By A Third In Quarter 3
Wind Power Drops By A Third In Q3
The latest energy trends data have been published by BEIS:
https://149366104.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-
content/uploads/2022/01/image_thumb.png
It is quite shocking to see that wind generation has fallen by 38% for onshore
and 24% for offshore year on year. This is despite new capacity being added.
We are familiar with short term drops in output, maybe for a few days or even
weeks. But to lose effectively a third of generation for a whole quarter shows
just how dangerous over reliance on wind power is.
The difference was made up largely from imports, which doubled:
https://149366104.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/image_thumb-
1.png
How long we can count on that is anybody's guess.
Keep sucking that dick, pansy-boy.
Why so darn gay?
You mad, sis?
=====
The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were
Never Meant To
Over the last decade, journalists have held up Germany's renewables energy
transition, the Energiewende, as an environmental model for the world.
"Many poor countries, once intent on building coal-fired power plants to bring
electricity to their people, are discussing whether they might leapfrog the
fossil age and build clean grids from the outset," thanks to the Energiewende,
wrote a New York Times reporter in 2014.
With Germany as inspiration, the United Nations and World Bank poured billions
into renewables like wind, solar, and hydro in developing nations like Kenya.
But then, last year, Germany was forced to acknowledge that it had to delay its
phase-out of coal, and would not meet its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction
commitments. It announced plans to bulldoze an ancient church and forest in
order to get at the coal underneath it.
After renewables investors and advocates, including Al Gore and Greenpeace,
criticized Germany, journalists came to the country's defense. "Germany has
fallen short of its emission targets in part because its targets were so
ambitious," one of them argued last summer.
"If the rest of the world made just half Germany's effort, the future for our
planet would look less bleak," she wrote. "So Germany, don't give up. And also:
Thank you."
But Germany didn't just fall short of its climate targets. Its emissions have
flat-lined since 2009.
Now comes a major article in the country's largest newsweekly magazine, Der
Spiegel, titled, "A Botched Job in Germany" ("Murks in Germany"). The
magazine's cover shows broken wind turbines and incomplete electrical
transmission towers against a dark silhouette of Berlin.
"The Energiewende - the biggest political project since reunification -
threatens to fail," write Der Spiegel's Frank Dohmen, Alexander Jung, Stefan
Schultz, Gerald Traufetter in their a 5,700-word investigative story.
Over the past five years alone, the Energiewende has cost Germany Eu32 billion
($36 billion) annually, and opposition to renewables is growing in the German
countryside.
"The politicians fear citizen resistance" Der Spiegel reports. "There is hardly
a wind energy project that is not fought."
In response, politicians sometimes order "electrical lines be buried
underground but that is many times more expensive and takes years longer."
As a result, the deployment of renewables and related transmission lines is
slowing rapidly. Less than half as many wind turbines (743) were installed in
2018 as were installed in 2017, and just 30 kilometers of new transmission were
added in 2017.
Solar and wind advocates say cheaper solar panels and wind turbines will make
the future growth in renewables cheaper than past growth but there are reasons
to believe the opposite will be the case.
It will cost Germany $3-$4 trillion to increase renewables as share of
electricity from today's 35%... [+] to 100% between 2025-2050
It will cost Germany $3-$4 trillion to increase renewables as share of
electricity from today's 35%... [+] AG Energiebinlanzen
Der Spiegel cites a recent estimate that it would cost Germany "Eu3.4 trillion
($3.8 trillion)," or seven times more than it spent from 2000 to 2025, to
increase solar and wind three to five-fold by 2050.
Between 2000 and 2019, Germany grew renewables from 7% to 35% of its
electricity. And as much of Germany's renewable electricity comes from biomass,
which scientists view as polluting and environmentally degrading, as from
solar.
Of the 7,700 new kilometers of transmission lines needed, only 8% have been
built, while large-scale electricity storage remains inefficient and expensive.
"A large part of the energy used is lost," the reporters note of a much-hyped
hydrogen gas project, "and the efficiency is below 40%... No viable business
model can be developed from this."
Meanwhile, the 20-year subsidies granted to wind, solar, and biogas since 2000
will start coming to an end next year. "The wind power boom is over," Der
Spiegel concludes.
All of which raises a question: if renewables can't cheaply power Germany, one
of the richest and most technologically advanced countries in the world, how
could a developing nation like Kenya ever expect them to allow it to
"leapfrog" fossil fuels?
The Question of Technology
The earliest and most sophisticated 20th Century case for renewables came from
a German who is widely considered the most influential philosopher of the 20th
Century, Martin Heidegger.
In his 1954 essay, "The Question Concerning of Technology," Heidegger condemned
the view of nature as a mere resource for human consumption.
The use of "modern technology," he wrote, "puts to nature the unreasonable
demand that it supply energy which can be extracted and stored as such... Air
is now set upon to yield nitrogen, the earth to yield ore, ore to yield
uranium... to yield atomic energy."
The solution, Heidegger argued, was to yoke human society and its economy to
unreliable energy flows. He even condemned hydro-electric dams, for dominating
the natural environment, and praised windmills because they "do not unlock
energy in order to store it."
These weren't just aesthetic preferences. Windmills have traditionally been
useful to farmers whereas large dams have allowed poor agrarian societies to
industrialize.
In the US, Heidegger's views were picked up by renewable energy advocates.
Barry Commoner in 1969 argued that a transition to renewables was needed to
bring modern civilization "into harmony with the ecosphere."
The goal of renewables was to turn modern industrial societies back into
agrarian ones, argued Murray Bookchin in his 1962 book, Our Synthetic
Environment.
Bookchin admitted his proposal "conjures up an image of cultural isolation and
social stagnation, of a journey backward in history to the agrarian societies
of the medieval and ancient worlds."
But then, starting around the year 2000, renewables started to gain a high-tech
luster. Governments and private investors poured $2 trillion into solar and
wind and related infrastructure, creating the impression that renewables were
profitable aside from subsidies.
Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk proclaimed that a rich, high-energy civilization
could be powered by cheap solar panels and electric cars.
Journalists reported breathlessly on the cost declines in batteries, imagining
a tipping point at which conventional electricity utilities would be
"disrupted."
But no amount of marketing could change the poor physics of resource-intensive
and land-intensive renewables. Solar farms take 450 times more land than
nuclear plants, and wind farms take 700 times more land than natural gas wells,
to produce the same amount of energy.
Efforts to export the Energiewende to developing nations may prove even more
devastating.
The new wind farm in Kenya, inspired and financed by Germany and other well-
meaning Western nations, is located on a major flight path of migratory birds.
============================================================================
The Global Average Temperature Dropped 0.29C Last Month - Now Sits At Just
0.08C Above The 30-Year Baseline
School Cancelled In Yakutia, Russia As Temperatures Plunge To -50C (-58F)
Record-Breaking Cold Continues To Grip Western Canada
"Red Alerts" Issued In India As Cold Wave Intensifies
Amid Freezing Lows & Energy Shortages, Europe Struggles To Keep The Lights On
Bhopal, India Suffers Lowest Temp In 55 Years
"Hazardous" Freeze To Hit The Prairies
Rare Polar Stratospheric Clouds Spotted
Europe Forecast A Bitterly Cold and Snowy Christmas
Colder Winter Headed For U.S. With Incoming 'Polar Vortex'
"Unprecedented" Cold Wave Is Hitting Scandinavia
Alaska Suffers "Persistent Record-Shattering Cold"
A Freezing Start To Winter Is "Rapidly Depleting" Europe's Gas Reserves
St. Petersburg's "Deep Freeze" Breaks 1893 Record
Sweden Busts All-Time December Low (-46.8F)
Bethel, Alaska Suffered Its Coldest November in 82 Years
Australia Suffered Coldest Nov Since 1999
Monthly Lows (And Rare Snows) Fall in Hawaii
Record Cold Grips Siberia (-68.3F)
Canada Sees Lowest November Temp Since 2004 (-45.6F)
Low Temperature Records Continue to Fall Across Europe
Australia's NSW Suffers Coldest November On Record
Record Lows Grip Europe
Sweden Registers -37.4C (-35.3F)
UK Schools Forced To Shut, + Bigger Freeze Inbound
Nordic Power Prices Surge On Sub-Zero Temps And Low Winds
Danger To Life' Warning Issued In Scotland
Spain Issues 'Cold Weather Alerts' - Restarts Old Coal Power Plant To Cope
In 2021 (To Date), A Total of 222 All-Time Low Temperature Records Have Been
Broken In The United States, Versus Just The 7 For All-Time High
