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Six Strikes Against Green Energy

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Leading German economist, Hans Sinn, has laid out 6 "formidable problems" with Germany's and the EU's green energy push. The 6 points could be applied to any country in the First World, including Australia.

. The Paris Accord is non-binding and has been signed by only 61 of 191 countries. Two thirds of the world is not obliged to do anything. The 61 signatories will just outsource their emissions (ruining their industries and economy) to the other 130 countries. So the Accord will have no effect on global emissions.

. Targets are "utopian", leaving Europe dependent on other countries, like Russia. The belief that the EU can get by on "volatile renewables" is just "media propaganda".

. Electricity from wind and sun is "too volatile" to assure an affordable and complete power supply".

. The market as a discovery process to innovate low CO2 technologies is being shut down in favour of "doing it by decree".

. Electric cars using Germany's current electric supply mix are emitting "far more CO2 over their lifetimes than conventional combustion engines". Even after 150,000 kms, a diesel VW Golf emits less CO2.

. Going without fossil fuels will not just have a tiny effect on emissions, but rather "no effect". Whatever fuels Europe opts to use, all the other 130 countries will simply burn them (fossil fuels) instead. CO2 emissions will keep growing - "no matter what Europe does, decrees or decides".

The same applies to the rest of the West, including little old Australia, with 25 million people.
Posted by ttbn, Friday, 17 June 2022 4:57:59 PM
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What our local fundamentalists refuse to admit or see is that though Australia is a big country in size it is unimportant on a world scale, if we stopped all emissions it would make no difference, except to us financially .
Posted by Is Mise, Friday, 17 June 2022 7:45:40 PM
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is Mise,
Australia doesn't have an emission problem though it has a pollution problem that does affect the local environment !
Posted by Indyvidual, Friday, 17 June 2022 9:23:23 PM
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What a pity it isn't a baseball game. "too volatile"? Not words I'd use to describe a piddling amount of unreliable power coming from a large area. Can someone tell Adam that a power crisis was ended by coal fired power and not caused by it?
Posted by Fester, Friday, 17 June 2022 9:58:19 PM
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There is a surge in coal demand in China and India – as well as in the U.S., where coal use jumped by 17% last year

By the end of next year, China will be producing about 4.4 billion tons of coal per year and India will be mining about 1.2 billion tons. Add those together and you get 5.6 billion tons of coal, which is more than 9 times the amount of coal that will be mined in the U.S. this year. 

In India, the push for more coal has led the government to give a "special dispensation" to the Ministry of Coal which allows the agency to relax environmental controls and public consultations so mines can produce more coal.
Posted by ttbn, Friday, 17 June 2022 10:41:49 PM
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I think the whole world is full of crap.
I told you all that I think the best kind of battery is stored energy in the form of water in a dam.
Why cant they just pump the water back up into the dam from a lower holding pond after its gone through a turbine?
If this guy in a Vietnamese rice paddy can figure out how to pump water for free then why can't it be done?
http://youtu.be/dV9B_yWgYEs

Free energy, forever.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Saturday, 18 June 2022 5:42:31 AM
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