Energy Insanity In Germany. These People are Nuts!

[Please note my important comments below.]

From ZeroHedge . The original article is from Notrickszone dot com

At FaceBook, Dane Peter Bardland presents a chart and commentary on Germany’s upcoming rapid nuclear power phaseout.

By the end of 2022, the government will have shut down another 6 plants with a total (baseload) capacity of 8.54 gigawatts!

Chart: Presented by Peter Bardland

Yesterday we commented here that Germany will in fact be shutting down all the baseload power sources, which ironically kept the country from blacking out in 2021 because wind and solar power failed to deliver as expected.

“Disaster playing out”…”pretty crazy”

Bardland writes:

In just over a month, Germany will close 3 of its newest and best nuclear power plants and more than 4050 MW of electricity will disappear from northern Europe’s power grid. 4050 MW is equivalent to the average electricity consumption of all of Denmark.

It will put supply security further under pressure and them choosing to do so in the middle of winter is pretty crazy.

Not only will the 4050 MW of shut off nuclear power lead to more CO2 emissions, but it will cause much more pollution from the burning of biomass and fossil fuels. Next winter, Germany will close the last 3 nuclear power plants, also 4000 MW.

Anyone who has followed the energy and climate political debate, even superficially, over the last 10-20 years can see that Germany, Denmark and other ‘green crazy countries’ are doing it vigorously AGAINST what logic and science dictates.

We see a slow disaster playing out with The Greens in the lead role as the crazy villain, hell-bent in their eagerness to wipe out life and prosperity.

(PS. Buy warm clothes, food, water and candles, for the coming winter).”

On top of the baseload power shutdown madness, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said he favored a one-year complete lockdown of unvaxxed Germans. There’s definitely something in someone’s water.

[Doug here: The sad thing is that, once a nuclear plant is built and in operation, it's power is almost free and it"s extremely reliable. To shut down a nuclear plant now means an extremely costly decommissioning that is a premature and unnecessary cost.

Every energy grid needs a very large and reliable baseload, ESPECIALLY GERMANY!  Solar and wind is intermittent and extremely low quality in Germany at 50 degrees north latitude in winter.  Their highest electrical demand/loads are in their winter.  But, in winter, there are 4 months without ANY solar panel output due to clouds and the low angle of the sun. 

Worse, due to climate change insanity and extreme ignorance of their energy reality, they are hellbent on MAKING ALL OF THEIR AUTOS ELECTRIC WHILE AT THE SAME TIME REDUCING POWER GENERATION!!!  Pure insanity. 

Add even more to this insanity is the inability of the Germans to approve the NordStream 2 gas pipeline that is ready to provide cheap and abundant natural gas supplies from Russia while natural gas inventories in Germany and the EU are already too low for this time of the year.  I guess the lesson is: don't underestimate the power of elected officials to screw-up everything.  People are going to die this winter due to crazed politicians. 

See my posts: Large Scale Solar & Wind Power Not The Solution: Too Many Problems and Costs, Add ANOTHER Problem and Cost to Wind and Solar Power, More Analyses Confirm Solar & Wind Power Is More Of a Problem Than Solution, Germany's Solar Projects Are a Bust, Germany Abandons Nuclear Power ]