By P Gosselin
Wind power set up stalls, firewood turns into scarce as Germany shuts down its coal and nuclear energy, sees fuel stockpiles dwindles away.
As pure fuel and oil for heating skyrockets, many Germans at the moment are turning to firewood as a solution to hold heat this coming winter. However now firewood is getting uncommon too, and costs are skyrocketing. The German on-line Merkur studies of “exploding demand”.
In line with firewood vendor Konrad Kötterl. “Some individuals are panicking about not with the ability to get any extra wooden.” Because of this, they’re stockpiling. Usually, he has three to 4 orders a day in the summertime. “Proper now, it’s 20 to 30.”
Personally, I referred to as a neighborhood firewood vendor earlier within the week. They advised me they’ve none left and that they may put me down on a ready listing.
Wind turbine woes
In the meantime, Die kalte Sonne right here studies on how wind power set up is shifting alongside solely at a snail’s tempo, and so won’t ever be capable of rescue Germany from its accelerating power demise:
“Germany’s authorities The growth of wind power is making solely snail-like progress. The German Tagesschau studies, however forgets to make clear that the 57,000 megawatts are rated nominal capability. Whereas this might theoretically be achieved, in apply it nearly by no means is.
Within the first half of 2022, 238 new wind generators had been put in with a mixed capability of 977 megawatts. Which means the pace of wind energy growth is much like the identical interval final yr – it has even decreased barely, defined the German Wind Vitality Affiliation (BWE) and the VDMA machine and plant constructing affiliation.
Since outdated generators had been additionally decommissioned, the so-called web addition within the first half of the yr was 878 megawatts, which is barely greater than within the earlier yr’s comparability. In line with the report, on the finish of the primary half of the yr, there have been 28,000 wind generators in Germany with a complete capability of slightly below 57,000 megawatts.’
What’s astonishing within the report are the figures on staff within the trade. At present there are 100,000, however there had as soon as been 40,000 – 50,000 extra. That’s not likely a lot when measured towards a complete of greater than 40 million jobs topic to social safety contributions. Renewable energies are sometimes portrayed as a job miracle machine, however the potential is proscribed and modest, particularly in comparison with different industries.”
The power scenario in Germany has deteriorated a lot that Swiss publicist Roland Tichy asks: “Are we on the trail again to the Stone Age?”
Properly, no less than Sone Age folks had sufficient firewood.
