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Germany spent years forcing its economy through a subsidized green transition. Now Berlin needs the money back. Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government plans to cut more than €30 billion from Germany's 'Climate and Transformation Fund.' Heat pump support will be restricted while electric vehicle funding will be slashed. The fund...

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Germany's self-induced energy crisis has to be studied as a case study in how to destroy a leading industrial nation. After Germany phased out its nuclear power plants, it even blew up the cooling towers in an act of self-sabotage. And now, just as the world is facing its biggest energy security crisis in history, Germany has positioned itself in the worst possible position. Those 2 reactors once supplied Germany with: - ~4% of its electricity annually - Nuclear once accounted for almost 30% of Germany's electricity Today, Germany has among the highest electricity prices in the world and is facing rampant deindustrialization. Chancellor Merz acknowledged that the nuclear phaseout was a mistake but said there is nothing to do about it.
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Germany's self-induced energy crisis has to be studied as a case study in how to destroy a leading industrial nation. After Germany phased out its nuclear power plants, it even blew up the cooling towers in an act of self-sabotage. And now, just as the world is facing its biggest energy security crisis in history, Germany has positioned itself in the worst possible position. Those 2 reactors once supplied Germany with: - ~4% of its electricity annually - Nuclear once accounted for almost 30% of Germany's electricity Today, Germany has among the highest electricity prices in the world and is facing rampant deindustrialization. Chancellor Merz acknowledged that the nuclear phaseout was a mistake but said there is nothing to do about it.

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Germany has just erased another symbol of its industrial strength. The demolition of the Gundremmingen cooling towers marks not only the end of a nuclear facility but the continued dismantling of Germany’s economic backbone. What began under the red-green coalition two decades ago, and was later accelerated by Angela Merkel’s panic-driven phaseout, is now being completed under Friedrich Merz. The same politicians who once promised “sustainability” are now presiding over energy dependence, deindustrialization, and the collapse of what was once Europe’s most competitive economy. Nuclear power was not Germany’s problem. It was its greatest asset: clean, efficient, and far cheaper than imported gas or unstable renewables. Yet ideological blindness turned success into guilt. The country that once built the best reactors in the world now imports nuclear energy from France and coal-based electricity from Poland. The political class calls this progress while businesses shut down and energy-intensive industries relocate abroad. Under the Merz administration, the absurdity has reached its final stage. While AI data centers, chip fabs, and future manufacturing all demand enormous amounts of reliable power, Germany is blowing up the very plants that could have supplied it. Instead of securing affordable electricity for innovation, Berlin is subsidizing wind turbines that stand still half the year and gas plants that rely on foreign regimes. This is not strategy; it is surrender disguised as virtue. The destruction of Gundremmingen is not about energy policy. It is about the decline of rational governance. Germany’s leaders are sacrificing economic sovereignty for ideology, while pretending it is moral necessity. The result is predictable: higher costs, weaker industry, and growing dependence on those who still value energy realism. What fell today in Bavaria were not cooling towers, but the last remnants of Germany’s common sense.

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75,877 views • 9 months ago

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🇩🇪 “We should have not turned off the nuclear power plants, we don’t have enough energy generation now” -> Chancellor Merz admits that energy prices in Germany are kept low with government subsides, and that Germany can’t keep funding it. He promises a huge victory, by announcing a speedy BUREAUCRATIC PROCESS to get permissions for new power plants and then, also to create a tender for the construction of the new plants, which then can be built afterwards. -> This is at least 5 years, if not 10 until the first power plant is fully operational. They do not even have permits yet. FFS

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29,730 views • 1 month ago

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This is Amazon's new $11 billion AI data center campus in St. Joseph County, Indiana. It will draw 2.2 gigawatts of electricity - the output of a large power plant, enough to supply 1 million homes. For years the public was told energy had to be rationed: use less, dismantle reliable sources, accept scarcity - all to save the planet. That story has now been abandoned. AI requires massive continuous electricity to power the data centers, and AI is now seen as the superior control system. So energy is no longer a liability. It is a strategic necessity. Power will now come from wherever. Whatever works. Whatever scales. The climate narrative was tossed out the moment AI dominance became the new priority. Power was to be rationed. Now it is required. Power was the problem. Now it is the solution.

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41,103 views • 5 months ago

I’ve seen a lot of bad reporting during my career. But the piece published by Bloomberg on Dec 16 about Germany’s faltering economy doesn’t even mention the Energiewende or the wind drought that have led to soaring prices across the country. Germany has wasted $750B on an energy system is unreliable and expensive. And now German industry is fleeing. #germany #energiewende #alternativeenergy #greenenergy #solar #wind #climate #climatechange #nuclear #oil #gas #electricity #electricgrid #EU
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I’ve seen a lot of bad reporting during my career. But the piece published by Bloomberg on Dec 16 about Germany’s faltering economy doesn’t even mention the Energiewende or the wind drought that have led to soaring prices across the country. Germany has wasted $750B on an energy system is unreliable and expensive. And now German industry is fleeing. #germany #energiewende #alternativeenergy #greenenergy #solar #wind #climate #climatechange #nuclear #oil #gas #electricity #electricgrid #EU

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34,323 views • 1 year ago

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Historic steps are being taken at Baku Stadium for energy efficiency and sustainability at COP29. Baku Stadium, the venue for the COP29 conference to be held from November 11-22, will use three main renewable energy sources to meet its electricity needs: Solar Energy System, HVO biofuel generators, and hydroelectric power plants. The complete supply of electricity during the conference from renewable sources demonstrates that the event is being conducted in line with the principles of sustainable development. All these initiatives ensure that the COP29 event serves as a benchmark for green energy and sustainability for both Azerbaijan and the world. #COP29 #COP29Azerbaijan

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12,727 views • 1 year ago

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U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres demands $1.3 trillion a YEAR "to protect people and communities from the here-and-now effects of climate chaos" The doomers are not calling their shakedown "carbon credits" anymore. The new term is "climate adaptation." "Africa is home to 60% of the world's best solar resources, 30% of critical minerals, 1/5 of humanity. Yet it receives just 2% of global clean energy investment. At the same time, more than 600 million Africans still lack access to electricity. This is unjust and a lost opportunity for Africa and the world. Developed countries must keep their promises, including support to the fund for responding to loss and damage and the green climate fund. The 300 billion U.S. dollars pledged to developing countries must be delivered with concrete steps to mobilize the $1.3 trillion a year by 2035. ... Recent reforms and policy decisions have increased the lending capacity of multilateral development banks by 600 to 800 billion U.S. dollars. They must use it aggressively to finance the infrastructure of the future and climate adaptation. They must also adapt their instruments to match the scale and time frame of the challenge, including 50-year finance where needed."

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55,811 views • 1 month ago

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EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Reeves has proposed increasing defence spending by less than £10 billion over the next four years despite stark warnings that Britain’s “national security and safety is in peril” The chancellor has outlined plans with the prime minister for a “limited” increase amid concern about the impact of the Iran war on the public finances The armed forces have warned that they are facing a funding gap of around £28 billion over the next four years on their existing plans However a government source said that Reeves has proposed an increase in funding of less than £10 billion during her discussions with Sir Keir Starmer, fearing a bigger increase would be unaffordable The Iran war has pushed up the cost of government borrowing and households face higher energy bills, petrol costs and prices in shops The chancellor is drawing up plans for a targeted energy bill bailout for low-income households this winter and is also expected to shelve plans to begin increasing fuel duty by 5p a litre from September at a cost of about £2.6 billion. Both measures will add to pressure on the public finances The State of It political podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times has been told that Reeves is unwilling to break her fiscal rules or increase taxes to boost defence spending John Healey, the defence secretary, is pressing for a bigger increase as there are concerns that £10 billion will not be enough, given the increasing likelihood that British forces will be deployed to Ukraine and the Middle East

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42,545 views • 3 months ago

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NOW Israeli Defense Minister Katz: -We are ready to resume the war with Iran; we are awaiting the green light from the United States. - We will return Iran to the Stone Age by bombing its energy and electricity facilities and crushing its economic infrastructure. - The attack will be different this time, and we will launch devastating strikes that will shake the foundations of the Iranian regime. - We are awaiting a US green light to annihilate the Khamenei dynasty and return Iran to the Stone Age.

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