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Τετάρτη 30 Οκτωβρίου 2013

Der Spiegel - Reality Check: Germany's Defective Green Energy Game Plan


All of the wind turbines, rooftop solar panels, hydroelectric and biogas plants in Germany have not reduced CO2 emissions in Europe by a single gram.
All of the wind turbines, rooftop solar panels, 
hydroelectric and biogas plants in Germany have not reduced CO2 
emissions in Europe by a single gram.
Germany pretends to be a pioneer in the green revolution. 
But its massively expensive Energiewende has done nothing 
to make the environment cleaner or encourage genuine efficiency. 
One writer argues: Either do it right, or don't do it at all.

So, perhaps you've heard about Germany's heroic green revolution
about how it's overhauling its entire energy infrastructure to embrace 
renewable energy sources? Well, in reality, our chimney stacks 
are spewing out more than ever, and coal consumption jumped 8 percent 
in the first half of 2013. Germans are pumping more climate-killing 
CO2 into the air than they have in years. And people are surprised.

Why coal, you might ask? Aren't Germans installing rooftop solar 
panels andwind turbines everywhere? What's being done with 
the billions of euros from the renewable energy surcharge, 
which is tacked onto Germans' power bills to subsidize green energy 
and due to rise again soon? This is certainly not how we imagined 
the Energiewende, Germany's push to abandon nuclear energy 
and promoterenewable sources, which Chancellor Angela Merkel's 
government launched in 2011 in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
This same government acts as if this coal fever were merely 
a growing pain or transitional problem. But that's not true. 
Instead, it stems from structural flaws in the Energiewende
Renewable energy and the coal boom are causally linked. 
The insane system to promote renewable energy sources ensures that, 
with each new rooftop solar panel and each additional wind turbine, 
more coal is automatically burned and more CO2 released 
into the atmosphere.
Counterincentives Galore
Indeed, Merkel's Energiewende is morphing into an environment killer. 
It burdens the climate, accelerates the greenhouse effect and 
causes irreversible damage.
Take the fluctuation/storage problem:...
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