Re:How messed up was Germany's energy policy?
by UKR_anon on Monday August 22, 2022 @05:47PM
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The FSB [0] is financing western NGOs and political parties to fight against Nuclear Power and to promote energy policy and solutions. [1] This Discussion is pointless without acknowledging that fact. This is also just the tip of the Iceberg where the KGB (Gazprom) was caught, it would be naive to believe that thats all they did.
This influence imo explains ignorance of German politicians regarding Energy Politics.
We have to balance two goals here.
1. Stay energy diversified for national security.
2. Reduce use of fossil fuels to combat climate change.
The figures that are often presented of germanys high Renewable electricity production are so misleading they could be straight from a KGB office.
If we really want to tackle point 1. and 2. We can't just magically ignore heating, transportation, heavy Industry and fertilisers.
All these run on fossile fuels right now. The Longterm goal has to be transition to EVs, Use synthetic fuels for aviation, heat with heat exchangers (60% of new build homes in germany are equipped with them).
So just conveniently ignoring these massive energy demands and talking about sustainability is delusional.
With all these energy requirements it becomes pretty obvious that germany can not produce all that energy with just Solar and Wind. It can also not store enough of this energy for 82 millions people for periods of low sun and low wind.
The best time to start building nuclear plants was 10 years ago, the second best time is today.
Fusion will not be on time here. Sweden and Finland solved the end storage problem. Which is imo a talking point purposefully propagated by foreign adverse Intelligence Agencies. After all noone give a f** where and how all the Highly toxic chemicals are stored. (The are stored in the same way, deep down in Salt mines).
I think a cold and painful winter will be good for the german people. I compare them to the Antiwaxxers for child vaccines.
They lived in such a good period of time and never saw a child with chickenpox or measles, so they think its not an issue anymore. You can talk to them and explain the danger they are in as much as possible. They will laugh and scream at you.
They have to suffer for one winter to understand the importance of national security and energy independence. Even right now, so close to the disaster winter, many germans are ignorant and think they will solve it with 20kg of burning wood.
This influence imo explains ignorance of German politicians regarding Energy Politics. We have to balance two goals here. 1. Stay energy diversified for national security. 2. Reduce use of fossil fuels to combat climate change.
The figures that are often presented of germanys high Renewable electricity production are so misleading they could be straight from a KGB office. If we really want to tackle point 1. and 2. We can't just magically ignore heating, transportation, heavy Industry and fertilisers. All these run on fossile fuels right now. The Longterm goal has to be transition to EVs, Use synthetic fuels for aviation, heat with heat exchangers (60% of new build homes in germany are equipped with them). So just conveniently ignoring these massive energy demands and talking about sustainability is delusional.
With all these energy requirements it becomes pretty obvious that germany can not produce all that energy with just Solar and Wind. It can also not store enough of this energy for 82 millions people for periods of low sun and low wind.
The best time to start building nuclear plants was 10 years ago, the second best time is today. Fusion will not be on time here. Sweden and Finland solved the end storage problem. Which is imo a talking point purposefully propagated by foreign adverse Intelligence Agencies. After all noone give a f** where and how all the Highly toxic chemicals are stored. (The are stored in the same way, deep down in Salt mines).
I think a cold and painful winter will be good for the german people. I compare them to the Antiwaxxers for child vaccines. They lived in such a good period of time and never saw a child with chickenpox or measles, so they think its not an issue anymore. You can talk to them and explain the danger they are in as much as possible. They will laugh and scream at you. They have to suffer for one winter to understand the importance of national security and energy independence. Even right now, so close to the disaster winter, many germans are ignorant and think they will solve it with 20kg of burning wood.
The Winter is comming.
[0] further called KGB [1] https://twitter.com/ziontree/status/1497998920739274757?s=20...