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5. We don't HAVE to have solar and wind because obviously, during episodes of Dunkleflaute we clearly don't have them.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 12:58 PM
Jul 12

Dunkelflaute, during the 2024-2025 winter German coal burning festival this winter which left all of Europe pissed off at surging power rates, has become a widely used word.

Cold without wind: German ‘dunkelflaute’ brings electricity prices to crisis levels and depletes gas reserves

Subtitle

German consumers will pay almost €400 per megawatt hour on Thursday, the highest figure since the end of 2022


I noted other Europeans calling the German wind and solar fantasy of filth a "shit show" which of course, it was, at least for anyone with a sense of decency:

The Norwegian Energy Minister States It Bluntly: "It's an absolute shit situation."

I have no use, none whatsoever for the Magat scale lie that so called "renewable energy" doesn't depend on fossil fuels.

For the battery morons spreading this lie, I calculated how much cobalt would need to have been dug by Congolese slaves to cover just the German Dunkelfluate event some years back, in response to another uninformed apologist for the trillion dollar "renewable energy" scam that has done NOTHING, NOT A FUCKING THING to slow the rate of increase of extreme global heating events:

The Number of Tesla Powerwalls Required That Would Address the Current German Dunkleflaute Event.

(The uninformed barely literate "I'm not an antinuke" antinuke at the time loved to wax romantic about the fascist Elon Musk's Powerwalls.)

As for hydrogen, anyone trying to sell this fossil fuel greenwashing scheme by claiming that the world is so awash in so called "renewable energy" that "green hydrogen" is a thing, doesn't know a fucking thing about how much energy is wastes to make hydrogen and the fact that it is overwhelmingly made from dangerous fossil fuels.

Hydrogen stupidity is even worse than battery stupidity, and battery stupidity is already pretty bad.

These cults are useless.

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