Europe’s energy crisis hits science

Re:Europe’s energy crisis hits science by shmel on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:12AM (#32765770)

Don't forget that Merkel's coalition surrounded wind energy with huge amount of red tape and regulations that basically resulted in almost zero new wind turbines built in last few years.

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Re:Europe’s energy crisis hits science by pjmlp on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:40AM (#32766255)

Compared with Portugal, it still surprises how easy it is for anyone in Germany to block wind turbines in Germany.

Spoils the landscape image view is apparently a valid argument to block their construction, so you just need enough signatures every time a new construction site gets announced.

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Re:Europe’s energy crisis hits science by pydry on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:50AM (#32766445)

And yet still #3 in the world by capacity.

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Re:Europe’s energy crisis hits science by tomp on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:47AM (#32766396)

When I drive around Europe (Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy) or fly above (also NETHERLANDS, Belgium, UK) Germany has *by far the most land-based wind turbines.

So I think we can 100% blame “renewables”.

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