Is Germany running out of wind?
It’s bad enough for a straight-A wind energy Musterschuler (model student) like Germany to suddenly fall back to fifth place in class (at least when it comes to the number of turbines installed last year, that is), but to be passed up in the process by the Mother of all Umweltsünder (environmental sinners), the United States of America herself, well, that’s about enough to knock the wind out of you, as in them, which is of course what it did.
It seems that new turbine installations in Germany have dropped a full 25 percent in the past few months, primarily due to subsidies that the government doesn’t want to pay anymore. So you see, for all of the loud talk about new breakthrough technology and wave of the future and the next big export industry thing and saving the planet, blah, blah, money, it seems, makes the turbine go round after all. If these windmills don’t get subsidized here, they don’t get built. At least not for now, they don’t.
But I have confidence that Germany’s wind ideologues will be back up on their feet to be blown off them again in no time. After all, when it comes to energy policy, there is only one thing Germany has more of than wind, and that’s hot air.
“Wer Wind sät, wird Flaute ernten.”
It seems that new turbine installations in Germany have dropped a full 25 percent in the past few months, primarily due to subsidies that the government doesn’t want to pay anymore. So you see, for all of the loud talk about new breakthrough technology and wave of the future and the next big export industry thing and saving the planet, blah, blah, money, it seems, makes the turbine go round after all. If these windmills don’t get subsidized here, they don’t get built. At least not for now, they don’t.
But I have confidence that Germany’s wind ideologues will be back up on their feet to be blown off them again in no time. After all, when it comes to energy policy, there is only one thing Germany has more of than wind, and that’s hot air.
“Wer Wind sät, wird Flaute ernten.”
Kommentare auf Deutsch? Klar.
PS: Thanks for the global change link, EuroYank.
Wind farms in the US, and I think I can safely assume, the rest of the world, is more a matter of building them rather they will actually live up to the hype.
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And here is the link ... http://www.globalchange.umd.edu/energytrends/germany/6/
(Renewable Energy Policy in Germany: An Overview and Assessment.)
Your devoted student and understudy (Comment this)
If I understand EuiroYank, Germany is allowing its domestic wind farms to go to pot because there is a lot of money to be made elsewhere in the EU.
When I lived in Germany 30 years ago, Germans had to get on a 2 year waiting list for a Mercedes Benz. This was because 80% of the production was being shipped overseas, primarily to the U.S,A.
Exports ueber alles?
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some 35,000 Viet Nam veterans have vigorously pressed Washington to compensate them for injuries and illnesses that they believe were caused by exposure to Agent Orange. The herbicide contains dioxin, a potent poison that causes cancer in laboratory animals. But Government officials have delayed paying most claims, pointing to a lack of scientific proof that Agent Orange hurt the soldiers ... and here is the link http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,969769,00.html (by the way Pat Patterson you are a stupid IDIOT) (Comment this)
You sound like a Gazprom employee!
Don't worry about the U.S. economy. I went shopping with my fiancee at Victoria Secret last weekend. First, the mall was packed. Second, Victoria Secret had a line at the cash register that went outside the door as fashionable women paid $50 each for a Busenhalter.
Remember, While greedy French and German banks bought surities that were based on sub-prime mortgage loans, poor, undereducated Americans were being terribly exploited with high interst rates. Nieder mit den Eurogeiere! (Comment this)
one more time - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange (Comment this)
The Wikipedia entry clearly does not cite one study that showed any link between Agent Orange and the symptoms that have been claimed but does give a pretty accurate account of the political and legal attempts to prove and acknowledge damages. But, I repeat, there is not one line in the entry that shows any actual proof or any studies that have found that Agent Orange caused these symptoms.
As to who is the idiot I will leave that judgement to someone who can actually read without moving his lips and then falling down asleep exhausted and confused after a few sentences. (Comment this)
Normally I would agree, but EuroYank has been online for five years and it is a recognized brand name like your blog is.
I stand behind my blog, and my autobiography is also on EuroYank under (http://www.sauerkrautyankee.com/)
It is one thing to disagree and play games and use satire, BUT I can document that Pat Patterson has been calling me an anti-semite and a NAZI on your blog for a long time.
I want to nail him and sue him. Can you come clean with me regarding his website and any other identity you have of him? Do you have a record of his ISP.
I do not wish to subpoena the ISP records for your blog, but I am serious about this. And once again I ask you kindly. I will use any legal means possible to obtain the ISP records of your blog if necessary. (Comment this)