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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It burdens the climate, accelerates the greenhouse effect and
causes irreversible damage.
Take the fluctuation/storage problem:...
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