Europe’s Green Energy Basket Case Is Barack Obama’s Dream

Posted: September 26, 2013 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Alarmism Debunked, BIG Government, Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Climatism, Empirical Evidence, Environmentalism, EPA, Fact Check, Failed Green Schemes, Govt Climate Agenda, Green Agenda, Green Energy, Obama, Renewables, Socialism, Solar, Sustainability, Taxpayer waste, Wealth Redistribution, Wind Farms | Tags: Climate alarmist, eco-activist, ecofacist, environment, EPA, Europe, Germany, Green Energy Failure, Obama, Renewable energy, Spain, unreliables | 3 Comments

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?”
– Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue.
Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,
we will be doing the right thing in terms of
economic and environmental policy.“
– Timothy Wirth,
President of the UN Foundation

“Climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here,
and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new
global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.“
– Barack Obama,
US President

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According to satellite measurements and peer-reviewed science, for 16 years and 9 months, there has been no Global Warming at all.

Peer-Reviewed studies that confirm the lack of any recent global warming:

• Climate change: The case of the missing heat : Nature News & Comment
• Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998–2008
• Retrospective prediction of the global warming slowdown in the past decade
• Overestimated global warming over the past 20 years – Nature Climate Change 28/8/2013
• Warmist scientists talk about no Global Warming

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Let’s See How The “Clean Energy Economy” Is Doing in Germany And Europe :

GERMANY IS A GREEN ENERGY BASKET CASE 

via JoanneNova

• German’s electricity bills have doubled since 2000. (Germans pay about 40c a KWH.)
• Up to 800,000 Germans have had their power cut off because they couldn’t pay their bills.
• Germany’s renewable energy levy rose from €14bn to €20bn in one year as wind and solar expanded. German households will pay a renewables surcharge of €7.2bn this year alone.
• Germany has more than half the worlds solar panels. They generated 40% of Germany’s peak electricity demand on June 6, but practically 0% during the darkest weeks of winter.
• Seimens closed it’s entire solar division, losing about €1bn. Bosch is getting out too, it has lost about €2.4bn.
• Solar investors have lost almost about €25bn in the past year. More than 5,000 companies associated with solar have closed since 2010.
• Germany has phased out nuclear, but is adding 20 coal fired stations. Gas power can’t compete with cheap coal or subsidized renewables and 20% of gas power plants are facing shutdown.
• Despite the river of money paid to renewables, emissions have risen in Germany for the last two years.

It’s a case of lose-lose all around, everyone — taxpayers, investors, renewables companies, gas companies — all lost. Waste and stupidity on a colossal scale.

The pattern is similar in the rest of the EU:

• Two weeks ago the Czech Government has decided to end all subsidies.
• Spain owes €126bn to renewable energy investors.
• In Spain more than 5,000 solar entrepreneurs face bankruptcy without the subsidies.
• EU leaders now officially list affordable energy as being more important than greenhouse emissions.

How much was lost from European manufacturing, to China, which could not compete? Investors are “pouring money into the US, where energy prices have fallen to one-third of those in the EU, thanks to the shale gas revolution.” 

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In fact, the German green revolution has been so successful they have just ‘test-fired’ five new coal-fired power plants with a combined capacity of around 4 GW.

And just in case the wind stops blowing or the sun is blocked by clouds of evil man’s 12 parts per million colourless, odourless, trace gas carbon dioxide, rendering their half a trillion €uro investment in windmills and solar panels useless, Germany have another 15 coal plants planned to open by 2020.

German Coal Fired Power Stations Due to Open By 2020

Operator	Location	MW	Date Due	Status
Trianel	Lunen	750	2013	In Trial
EnBW	Karlsruhe	874	2013	In Construction
GDF	Wilhelmshaven	800	2013	In Construction
Steag	Duisberg	725	2013	In Construction
E.ON	Datteln	1055	2013	In Construction
RWE	Hamm	1600	2013	In Construction
Vattenfall	Hamburg	1640	2014	In Construction
GKM	Mannheim	911	2015	In Construction
MIBRAG	Profen	660	2020	A/W Approval
RWE	Niederaussem	1100	n/a	A/W Approval
GETEC	Buttel	800	n/a	A/W Approval
Dow	Stade	840	n/a	A/W Approval

BDEW, the German Energy Producers Association.

UPDATE

via Climate Change Dispatch :

Germany To Open 10 New Coal-Fired Power Stations

Written by Dr. Benny Peiser, GWPF, November 18 2013.

How much was lost from European manufacturing, to China, which could not compete? Investors are “pouring money into the US, where energy prices have fallen to one-third of those in the EU, thanks to the shale gas revolution.” 

But if “King Barack Hussein Canute” and his overreaching EPA have their way, energy prices will skyrocket, just like they have in Germany, Europe and Australia.

And if Obama and his overreaching EPA succeed in their quest to de-carbonise America, the “Clean energy economy” will become “an engine of [recession] for decades to come”.

UPDATE

via NoTricksZone

German Chamber Of Industry and Commerce: Renewable Energy Driving Out 25% Of Industrial Companies

By P Gosselin on 6. September 2013

See Also:

• Let’s copy Germany: 23,000 wind towers make 7% of its electricity to stop 0 degrees of warming
•  Wind farms — are 96% useless, and cost 150 times more than necessary for what they do « JoNova
• The EU green hell
• Europe Pulls The Plug On Its Green Energy Future
• The price of moral-vanity: A catalogue of Green economic disaster unfolds across Europe
• Germany Succeeds Making Energy Unaffordable For 15% Of Its Population – 600,000 Households Disconnected Annually!
• Woodland Heists: Rising Energy Costs Drive Up Forest Thievery
• Forget global warming!? Earth undergoing global COOLING since 2002!
• Obama’s Climate Change Quotes: Best Lines From Georgetown Speech
• Revealed: The EU’s great green U-turn on policy that is sending energy bills soaring across the continent
• Germany’s Massive Renewable Energy System Puts Out Only 7% Of It’s Rated Capacity in November!

Related:

• NATURE STUDY Confirms Global Warming Stopped 15 Years Ago
• Sea Level Rise slowed from 2004 – Deceleration, not acceleration as CO² rises | CACA
• State Of The Climate Report | CACA
• Bureaucratic Dioxide
• UTTER INSANITY: Spending $160b to cut the temperature by 0.00005 degrees
• Australian emissions reductions target is undone by one week in China « JoNova
• Lessons in wasting money: Use more wind and solar and… emit just as much CO2 « JoNova

Environmental Damage Caused By Renewable Energy:

• In China, the true cost of Britain’s clean, green wind power experiment: Pollution on a disastrous scale
• Abound Solar’s Toxic Waste Highlights Enviro Hypocrisy on Pollution
• PEER REVIEW: Toxic health risks associated with rare earth metals extracted for use in solar PV’s and industrial wind turbines.
• PEER REVIEW: Lessons in wasting money: Use more wind and solar and… emit just as much CO2
• The dirty secret of Britain’s power madness: Polluting diesel generators built in secret by foreign companies to kick in when there’s no wind for turbines – and other insane but true eco-scandals

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