COALENERGY It’s Cold: Germany Fires Up Reserve Coal Plant
By Charles Rotter
It’s Cold: Germany Fires Up Reserve Coal Plant
Germany has fired up a refurbished coal unit to help meet energy needs as the region’s first cold spell takes hold.
The success of the Energiewende on full display.
Last year’s historic energy crisis forced Germany to temporarily increase its reliance on the dirty fuel after supplies of Russian pipeline gas were shut off. While that poses a setback for the government’s plans to curb harmful emissions, it’s part of its strategy to contain price increases for consumers during the heating season.
Now this part is really funny.
Economy minister Robert Habeck said in an interview with German broadcaster ARD last week that the government will not need to reactivate old reserve plants in the winter of 2024-2025.
H/T stevez56
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Oldseadog
October 18, 2023 2:12 am
Good to know that Herr Habek knows what the weather willo be like during the winter of 2024/25. He must be a “climate scientist” if he can predict the weather that far into the future.
Now I need to contact him to find out what the weather will be like next week in Oban.
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Oldseadog
Reply to Oldseadog
October 18, 2023 2:14 am
will, not willo.
Please, pretty please, bring back the edit button.
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Oldseadog
Reply to Oldseadog
October 18, 2023 2:15 am
And Habeck not Habek. Apologies.
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Tom Abbott
Reply to Oldseadog
October 18, 2023 4:38 am
No need to apologize, it happens to all of us. 🙂
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strativarius
Reply to Oldseadog
October 18, 2023 3:07 am
Are you anti-wisp?
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strativarius
Reply to strativarius
October 18, 2023 3:12 am
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121044/
Edna was my favourite….
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strativarius
Reply to strativarius
October 18, 2023 3:17 am
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Joseph Zorzin
Reply to Oldseadog
October 18, 2023 3:50 am
Has it been determined what the cause of the missing edit button is?
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Bill Toland
Reply to Joseph Zorzin
October 18, 2023 4:56 am
Global warming.
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Krishna Gans
Reply to Joseph Zorzin
October 18, 2023 5:06 am
If I remember well it caused some problemes and didn’t do correctly what it was thought to do.
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Ben_Vorlich
Reply to Oldseadog
October 18, 2023 2:25 am
I hope the sun shines for you if you’re on holiday. If you live there I’m envious, especially of the drive through the Pass of Brander and The Falls of Lora. Magica; part of the world.
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Oldseadog
Reply to Ben_Vorlich
October 18, 2023 4:01 am
Thanks. School tattie holidays.
Usually go on the ferry at the Cloch and through Ardrishaig but the road is blocked by a landslide S of Ardfern.
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CampsieFellow
Reply to Oldseadog
October 18, 2023 3:14 am
Either that (unlikely) or he presumes that Germany will be able to provide all the electricity demanded from other sources. Perhaps he believes in the Magic Battery Storage Fairy.
I second your request for restoration of the Edit button.
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abolition man
October 18, 2023 2:13 am
Another in the long list of major successes of Marxism!
One would think that an intelligent person would begin to wake up to the hype and hyperbole; but the post-hypnotic trance state seems quite strong, making the alarmists nearly invulnerable to reality!
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Ben_Vorlich
October 18, 2023 2:29 am
UK has had everything running the last few days, even today which is pretty breezy, Even coal and Open Cycle Gas providing half 0.5GW between them
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Peta of Newark
Reply to Ben_Vorlich
October 18, 2023 3:35 am
Just coal alone has been making over 1GW these last few days (when it wasn’t windy prior to Babet’s arrival)
But even now when wind has picked up, they’re keeping the coal burners warm.
they’re even burning kerosene and ‘other‘ – whatever that might be.
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ilma630
October 18, 2023 2:31 am
The ‘Energiewenders’ response? The usual warped thinking of “We need more renewables”!!
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Tom Abbott
Reply to ilma630
October 18, 2023 4:46 am
Meanwhile, China and India are building coal-fired power plants as fast as they can making any reductions of CO2 by Germany inconsequential.
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strativarius
October 18, 2023 2:44 am
At least the Germans have that option and didn’t pass a Miliband suicide bill.
Rishi Sunak has been urged to close Britain’s gas network and instead roll out heat pumps by Sir John Armitt, chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC).
https://www.gbnews.com/money/rishi-sunak-heat-pumps-gas-energy
And in today’s Climate Clarion
“Low income UK homes ‘should be given free heat pumps’ to meet climate targets
More than 2 million low-income households should be given a free electric heat pump to replace their gas boiler if the UK hopes to meet its legally binding climate targets”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/18/low-income-uk-homes-should-be-given-free-heat-pumps-to-meet-climate-targets
I think some free insulation is called for before we start throwing money down yet another drain?
I cannot find a heat pump that comes in below at least £10,000 and if it is just a straightforward installation do we include new radiators etc?
According to the figures, giving 2 million households a free heat pump will cost at least £20,000,000,000
We’re going to need more printing presses….
Viel glück Deutschland!
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mikewaite
Reply to strativarius
October 18, 2023 4:11 am
So the national Infrastructure commission is proposing to close down all domestic gas boiler systems in the UK . Clearly it has not communicated this with Cadent who maintain the gas distribution system. They have just informed us that our road (with no industrial units using gas kilns or ovens anywhere near it ) will be ripped up , along with our driveways to replace the existing gas pipes with long lasting plastic piping. Given that there are 2 grammar schools and 2 private prep schools along the road , the chaos at school run time is likely to be enormous . Just for the few remaining years that we are allowed to use gas heating and cooking.
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strativarius
Reply to mikewaite
October 18, 2023 4:39 am
97% of people in the UK are totally unaware that there is a national infrastructure commission.
That’s [a total lack of] communication for you.
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DavsS
Reply to strativarius
October 18, 2023 4:25 am
Which suggests that being a complete moron is a requirement to be chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission
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strativarius
Reply to DavsS
October 18, 2023 4:37 am
It certainly helps.
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Jim Gorman
Reply to strativarius
October 18, 2023 5:30 am
“”””More than 2 million low-income households should be given a free electric heat pump to replace their gas boiler”””””
They are not free! Someone, some where pays for them. Probably the low-income folks will pay the largest share of their income to the tax man so they in turn can have a free heater!
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observa
October 18, 2023 2:53 am
You know you’ve really got a problem when taxeater central is worried about the level of slushfunding going down in a race to the bottom line-
EU countries agree deal to reform power market subsidies (msn.com)
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observa
October 18, 2023 3:02 am
Meanwhile Green industry is working feverishly on the electricity demand side-
Electric truck maker Volta Trucks files for bankruptcy in Sweden | Reuters
Ford F-150 Lightning sales crash, production slashed (msn.com)
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Joseph Zorzin
Reply to observa
October 18, 2023 3:59 am
I expected a failure of the F-150 EV. Wrong market- mostly good old boys with a gun rack on the back- many with a plow on the front. Not the kind of people who think we need to save the planet from CO2- more worried about gun haters and face masks.
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observa
Reply to Joseph Zorzin
October 18, 2023 6:23 am
Apparently only 17% of Americans buy (can afford) new cars so they’re generally stacked with all latest upmarket tech to appeal to that segment and increasingly it looks like expensive EVs have satisfied that market-
GM scales back ambitious electric ute plans due to low demand (msn.com)
FOMO is clearly over and EVs have to compete as just another car alternative as well as ongoing mature turnover rates for the flippers and leasers.
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Lee Riffee
Reply to Joseph Zorzin
October 18, 2023 7:28 am
Yes. Price, utility (or lack of – I love that staged pic in the MSN article – no one is going to buy an EV truck to do any actual work!) among other things are reasons. Ford didn’t bother actually looking into the kinds of customers that buy the gas powered F 150.
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Geoff Sherrington
October 18, 2023 3:17 am
What (apart from image manipulation) causes the red glows at the top of those water cooling towers?”
Geoff S
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nhasys
Reply to Geoff Sherrington
October 18, 2023 3:25 am
Climate change idiots burning??
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sewie123
Reply to Geoff Sherrington
October 18, 2023 3:48 am
Looks to me like the red “Keep The Planes Away” lights hitting off the waste steam of the towers.
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Krishna Gans
Reply to sewie123
October 18, 2023 5:16 am
That’s it
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corev
Reply to Geoff Sherrington
October 18, 2023 4:36 am
Isn’t that escaping vapor a more powerful GHG than CO2? What are they showing? More warming and H2O POLLUTION?
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Joseph Zorzin
Reply to Geoff Sherrington
October 18, 2023 6:32 am
Whenever enviros show any cooling towers, they always make the nice, white steam look dark and filthy. Ease enough with Photoshop.
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nyeevknoit
October 18, 2023 3:46 am
500 MW seems low for the number of cooling towers…5000 perhaps?
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SteveG
October 18, 2023 3:55 am
Economy minister Robert Habeck said in an interview with German broadcaster ARD last week that the government will not need to reactivate old reserve plants in the winter of 2024-2025.
…must have modelled it, inevitably it will be wrong…
Well, who’d a thought, all those years ago we’d all be sitting here, drinking Château de Chasselas and keeping warm with coal!
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Ed Zuiderwijk
October 18, 2023 3:57 am
The Germans can thank their good fortune that they still have operational coal-fired plants. Here in England the dumbfek authorities blew up most of them, instead of mothballing, often by a dignitary pushing a button with much fanfare and a self-satisfied inane smirk signalling climate virtue.
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DavsS
Reply to Ed Zuiderwijk
October 18, 2023 4:30 am
The turbines from the demolished Didcot power station were sold to Germany, so they’ll be making good use of them.
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bnice2000
October 18, 2023 4:10 am
Story Tip
Biden’s Kamikaze Climate Plan For The US Economy – Climate Change Dispatch
China’s primary goal is to become the lone global superpower by 2049.
And everything Biden’s handlers tell him to do, just helps China achieve that goal.
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Tom Abbott
Reply to bnice2000
October 18, 2023 5:07 am
Well, the Chicoms have paid the Bidens millions of dollars. They expect something for their money, and it looks to me like they are getting their money’s worth out of Joe Biden. Just about everything Joe does helps the Chicoms and harms the United States.
Joe Biden is a complete disaster for the United States and for the World. The worst president evah!, who goes from one harmful move to another.
I heard Biden this morning call the Hamas terrorists/murderers “the other team” in his press conference from Israel.
Iran keeps saying they are going to intervene if Israel continues to attack Hamas. Normally, I would put this up to bluster on the part of the Mad Mullahs, but if they keep saying this enough, then it may become a self-fullfilling prophesy, as they will look impotent if they don’t intervene.
So, we can probably expect a big escalation of the fighting in the Middle East. I don’t know if the Mad Mullahs think this is the time to make their move on Israel but it is shaping up to look that way. They have obviously orchestrated everythng that has happened so far. How far are they going to push things, is the question at the moment.
Israel does have a large arsenal of nuclear weapons. If Israel’s survival is threatened, they will use them, as would we in a similar situation.
And the Mad Mullahs of Iran and their American sympathizers, Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the cause of all this insanity going on in the Middle East right now.
Where is Obama’s statement on this situation? Not a peep out of him. No reporters are putting a microphone in his face.
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Redge
October 18, 2023 4:32 am
Story Tip:
Greta is in trouble again
Greta Thunberg charged following Fossil Free London protest
And rightly so.
Ms Thunberg said: “People all over the world are suffering and dying from the consequences of the climate crisis caused by these industries who we allow to meet with our politicians and have privileged access to.”
Er…no, there is no evidence a single person has died because of “climate change”
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Right-Handed Shark
Reply to Redge
October 18, 2023 5:01 am
No doubt another staged “arrest” in an attempt to give the doom pixie a boost to her failing relevance. She’ll be let off with a sound “talking to”, won’t even get a fine.
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strativarius
Reply to Redge
October 18, 2023 5:06 am
Used, abused and now completely washed up has-been child star of climate porn gets arrested – again.
That’s the story. And this is where it began….
On August 20, 2018 a tweet featuring a photo of “a Swedish girl” sitting on a sidewalk was released by the tech company, We Don’t Have Time, founded by its CEO Ingmar Rentzhog:
“One 15 year old girl in front of the Swedish parliament is striking from School until Election Day in 3 weeks[.] Imagine how lonely she must feel in this picture. People where [sic] just walking by. Continuing with the business as usual thing. But the truth is. We can’t and she knows it!”
Rentzhog’s tweet, via the We Don’t Have Time twitter account, would be the very first exposure of Thunberg’s now famous school strike.
…
Tagged in Rentzhog’s “lonely girl” tweet were five twitter accounts: Greta Thunberg, Zero Hour (youth movement), Jamie Margolin (the teenage founder of Zero Hour), Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, and the People’s Climate Strike twitter account (in the identical font and aesthetics as 350.org).
https://web.archive.org/web/20230118071557/http://www.theartofannihilation.com/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/
Imagine being [climate propaganda] past it when you hit 18
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Tom Abbott
Reply to Redge
October 18, 2023 5:11 am
That’s right. There is not one shred of evidence that atmospheric CO2 has ever killed anyone.
Greta, like all climate change alarmists, assumes too much, based on nothing.
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abolition man
Reply to Redge
October 18, 2023 7:15 am
The poor, deluded child! Imagine the embarrassment if she ever wakes up to reality; CO2 is wholly beneficial, and NOTHING that GangGreen proposes ameliorates the suffering and dying of the poor!
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ResourceGuy
October 18, 2023 6:52 am
It’s more expensive to handle a coal power plant like a swing producer. But hey, it’s only money along the climate crusades trail.
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beng135
October 18, 2023 6:59 am
What? In the US, AFAIK, they’re purposely dismantling/scrapping shut-down coal plants so they can never be restarted.
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