by Tyler Durden
Wednesday February 10, 2021 - 15:30 p.m.
Barely a week after Davos figures met with world leaders and Silicon Valley oligarchs to prepare for the latest phase of the Big Reset, the underlying origin of their "climate emergency" thesis still struggles to correspond to reality.
Their famous “Zero Carbon” agenda, currently championed by top leaders like Justin Trudeau, Boris Johnson and Joe Biden, is proving much harder to achieve in reality than their elaborate UN agenda, Agenda 2030. , with its Powerpoint slides, computer projections and zoom calls.
No one is more affected by this grim reality than Europe's first green trailblazer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country is currently grappling with Europe's record frost this winter.
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Germany is considered the world capital of wind and solar energy. But, for the moment, "green" products cannot be bought, and this, at any price.
Its millions of solar panels are covered in snow and ice, and freezing weather encourages its 30.000 wind turbines to do nothing at all. [Note: don't forget the constant grid supply of electricity these things use by heating their mechanism so they don't freeze solid].
So much for the "transition" to a future powered entirely by wind and sun - also called "Energiewende".
Although they have been the object of much consternation and defamation over the past 20 years, German coal-fired power plants are today appreciated for what they are: truly significant sources of energy production, available on demand, whatever the weather. With a nationwide power outage a heartbeat away, Germany's obsession with unreliable wind and sun is like a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.
Last month, Pierre Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, explained how traditional energy sources like coal, nuclear and gas have bailed out Germany's green mess of solar and wind power..
Berlin on the edge of the abyss! Winter blackouts loom as coal-fired power plants run at 100% capacity and lights stay on
Wind and solar power in winter "between 0 and 2 or 3 percent - that's de facto zero", says the German power distribution professor.
Berlin's electricity supply has been strained :
Germany is now in the heart of winter. Much of the country has experienced considerable snowfall, which means that solar panels are often covered in snow and therefore rendered unusable. Even without snow, overcast skies for weeks prevented any noticeable solar energy production.
In addition, this winter there were many long periods without wind, so that the approximately 30.000 German wind turbines were largely out of service. In a world that is 100% dependent on green energy, that would mean near total darkness at home.
Fortunately, Germany's coal-fired and nuclear power infrastructure is (still) there to step in and keep electricity and the country running. This was the case for Berlin this winter, as a report by German television RBB reveals:
Germany's public broadcaster RBB (Berlin-Brandenburg) recently aired a report (above) on the region's winter energy problems, titled: "Germany's green energy put to the test by winter."
Charcoal to the rescue
The report acknowledges that all electricity "currently comes mainly from coal, and the Lausitz power plants" are now operating "at full capacity".
Curiously, the RBB report has been removed from the archives, but is thankfully available on YouTube thanks to the wind energy protest group Vernunftkraft.de.
In the report, Daniel Bartig, a mechanic at LEAG's Lausitz plant, tells RBB that he is skeptical of green power's ability to do the job, and asserts that "most of the energy currently comes from coal".
Green energy will not keep pace with demand
Next, RBB talks to Harald Schwarz, professor of electricity distribution at Cottbus University, who tells RBB that he is very skeptical about the efficiency of wind and solar power. As Germany prepares to shut down its reliable nuclear and coal-fired power plants, the gap between supply and demand will widen dangerously.
A physical reality "totally neglected" by political decision-makers
According to Professor Schwarz:
With this wind and photovoltaic energy supply, it's between 0 and 2 or 3 percent - it's de facto zero. You can see on many diagrams that we have days, weeks, in the year where we have neither wind nor photovoltaic. Especially this time for example - there is no wind or photovoltaics, and there are often times when the wind is very weak. These are things, I must say, which have been physically established and known for centuries, and we just totally overlooked that when discussing green energy".
We will have to rely on foreign energy in the future
RBB then warns of the increased risk of blackouts in the region, such as that of Berlin in 2019.
So what will happen in the future?
According to the journalist, theGermany will have to rely more on natural gas (from Russia), coal (from Poland) and nuclear (from France).
The stupidity and stubbornness of green energy in broad daylight.
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source: ZeroHedge.com
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