Germany’s Botched Transition To Green Energy A Warning To World

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WRITTEN BY SABINE BEPPLER-SPAHL ON JUL 5, 2022. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS

Germany’s Botched Transition To Green Energy A Warning To World

Germany is going backward. Last month, Robert Habeck [pictured]—German vice-chancellor and co-leader of the Green Party—announced that Germany will significantly increase its use of coal power, in order to wean itself off Russian gas.

The energy situation is critical, says Habeck – not least as Russia has cut the amount of gas it supplies to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline by 60 percent. [bold, links added]


So much for Germany’s much-vaunted Energiewende or clean-energy transition.

For years, the transition to renewable energy has been sold as an expression of modernity – of a new, technologically advanced, environmentally sustainable Germany.

It is one of the few policies that politicians have shown any enthusiasm for in recent years.

Now that the Energiewende is going into reverse – with a Green Party minister leading the charge back to one of the most polluting forms of energy – its shortcomings are impossible to ignore.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/germanys-botched-transition-to-green-energy-a-warning-to-world/

[Kamaji]

There is no transition to so-called "green energy" that won't end up being "botched", for the simple reason that it is not possible to do so and still have a twentieth - let alone a twenty-first - century economy and society around.

[catfish1957]

There is no transition to so-called "green energy" that won't end up being "botched", for the simple reason that it is not possible to do so and still have a twentieth - let alone a twenty-first - century economy and society around.

Envirowhacko manifesto is basically to send society back to the 19th century, while imposing socialist rules for all. 

[DefiantMassRINO]

There was no "transition" away from hydro-carbons... they just set themselves up to be squeezed by Russia.  They should have had a more diversified energy portfolio - diversifying across mutliple energy types and multiple resource providers.