Antinuclear

Germany’s energy program has won out against all the nuclear propaganda and lies

unrepentant global warming hysterics such as Britain’s James Lovelock or the USA’s James Hansen cling to the all-powerful image of nuclear power, like any easily impressed and easily manipulated schoolboy

in Germany,  its bet against nuclear power, driven by massive popular and political support has won out against all the nuclear propaganda and lies.

Germany’s Energiewende And The End Of Nuclear Power, The Market Oracle Nov 25, 2012  By: Andrew_McKillop “……..Making a smooth transition to a renewable energy-based economy is simply not possible by ruining energy consumers. The big-spending wishlist, to be sure, is almost endless: as shown by the now  farcical story of UK government attempts to “relaunch nuclear power” in Britain, with its contracts for difference and electricity market regulation – and guaranteed producer prices for nuclear electricity up to 166 euros per 1000 kWh (145 GBP/MWh) – trying to breathe life back into La Fee Atomique, or the nuclear fairy as it is called in nuclear-besotted France, is a very expensive game.
Europe’s antiquated power system should become more flexible, more efficient, able to respond quickly to demand, but when this wish is confronted by the two options of either centralized power production, or decentralized production, there is no simple answer. For coal and nuclear power however the answer is simple. For all practical purposes, coal and nuclear power plants have only two settings: off or on. In an emerging renewables-dominated power system, with increasing numbers of independent self-generators off-grid and offline, the economic case for abandoning coal and nuclear grows ever stronger. The choice becomes simple in this respect: neither nuclear nor coal.

To be sure, unrepentant global warming hysterics such as Britain’s James Lovelock or the USA’s James Hansen cling to the all-powerful image of nuclear power, like any easily impressed and easily manipulated schoolboy. They gargle idiot friendly slogans such as Hansen’s one-liner – despite the real world results from Germany: “for the foreseeable future, renewable energies will not be a sufficient source of electric power.” In Germany and today, overproduction of renewable-source electricity is already a major problem.
This in no way means that Energiewende faces “plain sailing”. Even it’s most ardent supporters admit that it faces plenty of increasing-sized hurdles. In theory at least, Germany needs to build more peak response power plants—natural gas turbines that can ramp up and down, sometimes in less than a  minute, to quickly smooth out the intermittent power profile of renewables. The electrical grid also needs to be expanded, at least in theory, but ever less certainly – because this is an expensive proposition. Debate on the subject, which is low cost, will tend to substitute building the new pylons and cables, or burying them underground at even higher cost. A highly theoretical pan-European power system is even more expensive, and even less likely also because it is “politically challenging”.

Coming months will show to what extent global warming fear is still able to be utilised to defend new and higher energy taxes and higher energy prices – this is freshly re-elected president Obama’s bet. He may lose this bet, but in Germany its bet against nuclear power, driven by massive popular and political support has won out against all the nuclear propaganda and lies.http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article37715.html

November 26, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized