Germany to Abandon 1.1 Trillion Wind Power Program by 2019

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The program has turned out to be too costly for the citzens and hasn't reached their goals in reducing Co2 emissions.

The government estimates that it will spend over $1.1 trillion financially supporting wind power, even though building wind turbines hasn’t achieved the government’s goal of actually reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Germany created lucrative subsidies and tax benefits for wind power in 2011 after it decided to abandon nuclear power entirely by 2022 following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan. German utilities are already suing the government for $21 billion over the nuclear shutdown plan.

Electricity from new wind power is nearly four times as expensive as electricity from existing nuclear power plants, according to analysis from the Institute for Energy Research.

The rising cost of subsidies is passed onto ordinary rate-payers, which has triggered complaints that poor households are subsidizing the affluent.
Nuclear power made up 29.5 percent of Germany’s energy in 2000 — in 2015, the share dropped down to 17 percent.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/08/g...ion-wind-power-program-by-2019/#ixzz460Qmr41q
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There are several large coal and nuclear energy companies in Germany that have ties to the government and are groaning that they'll lose their workers.

The IER is full of it, too.
 

I was listening to the radio a few months ago and some guy was talking about his research company that had developed a gizmo that actually 'scrubbed' the emissions from coal and other energy sources reduced them to a big fat ZERO! Now why isn't anyone talking ad nauseum about that sort of thing? If true, it would save coal jobs, oil jobs, etc., if GHG emissions were the only concern. According to the researcher they'd already been talking with the Alberta government about their invention.

On the other hand maybe some genius's need to continue working toward a method that pulls energy out of the atmosphere. A friend of ours is an amateur inventor and he was working on some kind of thing that pulls electricity out of the ground via copper pipes and some kind of wiring thingy (doesn't that sound scientific :D?) and while it wasn't a lot, I think he's been able to partially charge a battery with it. So if a guy in his basement can rig up a contraption that can do this in a small way, what the heck is the problem for the guys with the super computers and actual working labs to experiment in? Oh right, there's the metering problem and how do you make people pay for it! That's why JP Morgan quit funding Tesla's research I think. Pretty sure I read that.
 
As for Tesla and J. P. Morgan - that's a nice little piece of folklore.

Fact is that Tesla asked Morgan for funding to develop wireless communication. That's why he started building the transmitter tower at Wardencyffe in New York.

Morgan gave him $150k and told him he could give no more.

In the meantime, Marconi achieved the first transatlantic signal via Morse code, supposedly Tesla's goal. But Tesla really wanted to send power wirelessly. He sent a series of letters to Morgan begging for more money but Morgan stood firm.
 
Transition from one way to another on a national or global scale takes time. Sometimes slow natural obsolescence is the best way. Everything can't become a national project for money reasons alone.
 

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