Go Green They Say

[minderasr]

Green Destruction: German Forest that Inspired Grimm’s Fairy Tale Being Felled for Wind Turbines

Interestingly, no eco-activists are blockading the roads into Reinhardswald (site of Sleeping Beauty Castle), or tying themselves to trees to protect the “old growth forests”

The energy suicide of Germany is rapidly becoming legendary.

Legal Insurrection readers will recall that the nation shuttered its last nuclear power plant in 2023. The German government decided to double down on net-zero dreams and renewable energy promises.

    Germany is already big on wind: with nearly 30,000 onshore wind turbines, the country trails only the US and China.

    But it’s not enough to meet the country’s climate goals. Today, only 0.8% of Germany’s land area is approved for onshore wind energy. By 2032, the government wants to have 2% of land area allocated for onshore wind power. This means installing between 1,000 and 1,500 new turbines a year, or four to five a day by 2030, as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz recently said.

    Germany needs wind energy to meet its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2045, a target it’s currently in danger of missing, according to multiple studies. The country also missed its emissions reduction targets the last two years in a row, according to think tank Agora Energiewende.

And here we are. A famous forest that inspired Grimm’s fairy tales is being felled for wind turbines.

    A large area of Reinhardswald, an ancient German forest featured in the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, is being partially cut down in favour of 241-metre tall wind turbines.

    Following a months-long construction freeze, administrative courts have allowed heavy machinery to raze parts of the forest, including some trees that are more than 200 years old.

    Around 120,000 trees in the 200km² mountainous woodland in the Weser Uplands in the district of Kassel, Hesse, are said to have been condemned to the axe.

    The destruction comes at the request of the Green Party, citing the need for more “green” energy as a reason. Mayors in the vicinity are opposing the move.

    Germany has begun felling up to 120,000 trees from the 'fairy tale' forest of Reinhardswald – setting of many Brothers Grimm tales – to make way for wind turbines. But not a peep in protest comes from the Greens. https://t.co/oFcv8oW1uK

    — Toby Young (@toadmeister) March 8, 2024

The central European country is sacrificing part of its natural and cultural heritage on the altar of implausible (impossible?) “net-zero.”

However, those aren’t the only negative impacts from the energy-suicide Germany is committing.

    Many factors contribute to the skyrocketing costs in Germany for electricity and natural gas: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resultant sanctions, as well as the destruction of Nord Stream pipelines, for example. But one of the biggest drivers has been Germany’s net-zero energy policy, Energiewende, and the country’s rapid move to variable renewables, wind and solar, for electric generation. They necessarily require backup generating capacity, since the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine all the time.

    That’s usually provided by fossil fuel or nuclear power plants, but Germany passed legislation in 2019 to shut down all its coal plants by 2038, and last year the country shuttered the last three plants in its once-formidable nuclear fleet (in 1990 nuclear provided a quarter of Germany’s electricity).

    As a result, the country has been forced to import electricity and natural gas at substantially higher prices. Germany has recently been delaying planned closures of coal plants and is now also planning new gas plants as well, but the damage has been done. Germany now has some of the highest prices for electricity in the world.

    As a result, the entire German economy is in the doldrums. Growth forecasts for this year were recently slashed to just 0.2%, and as inflation is forecast to come in at about 2%, that implies actual economic contraction. Other indicators are also dire, with orders at German engineering firms and overall foreign investment dropping dramatically.

    New cartoon! Grim tales from Germany as they begin destroying an ancient forest to build wind turbines. H/t @LD_Sceptics https://t.co/DkkXMRNOmG pic.twitter.com/Jdya30GZOk

    — Cartoons by Josh (@Cartoonsbyjosh) March 9, 2024

I recall a time when protecting “old growth forests” was critical to protecting the planet.

    Trees play an important role in the fight against climate change. They capture and store carbon in their biomass — their roots, stumps and branches.

    According to new European research, when it comes to a tree’s climate benefit, as a tree get older it also stores more carbon.

    The University of Hamburg study suggests that old trees know best. Researchers studied unmanaged tropical forests in Suriname, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America, and looked at three different species of trees that ranged in age from 84 to 255 years old. They aren’t the oldest trees on the planet, but they make up a complete wilderness of unmanaged forests.

    The study found that the older a tree is, the better it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere. In fact, the research suggests that almost 70 per cent of all the carbon stored in trees is accumulated in the last half of their lives.

I find it fascinating that there are no eco-activists blockading the roads into Reinhardswald or tying themselves to trees. If they were truly interested in environmental protection, especially a sensitive forest ecosystem, they would take a break from their tire-slashing and defacing of masterpieces.

Of course, German farmers may pick up the slack. They are not enamored of the green energy dictates and seem willing to push back.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/03/green-new-deal-destruction-in-europe-german-forest-that-inspired-grimms-fairy-tale-being-felled-for-wind-turbines/

[FullClip]

Pretty much the same deal on a smaller scale here in Maine.  All the other states in New England want" "green power"but don't want them in their back yards.  So out of state and a lot of out of country companies are putting them up here.  Big subsidies from the state and feds, get charged to the utility company which passes the costs onto the consumers.

 

Wind power and solar power is like hiring a drunk.  You never know if he'll show up, never know how long he'll stay and never know how much work he'll get done.   We still have to have those evil fossil fuel plants in standby or operating at low loads to pick up the load when the wind stops or a cloud goes over the sun . 

Wish the people who love this stuff so much were connected directly to the wind and solar farms with no intervention by the real power plants. 

[railfancwb]

Lots of solar panel farms in middle Tennessee, eliminating formerly productive agricultural land. Wonder where they will put the panels as they die. Note that a nice cover of snow and ice may protect the panels from hailstones. 

[DAKA]

2 minutes ago, railfancwb said:

Lots of solar panel farms in middle Tennessee, eliminating formerly productive agricultural land. Wonder where they will put the panels as they die. Note that a nice cover of snow and ice may protect the panels from hailstones. 

Won't need agricultural land, billy gates is gonna' have us eain' bugs  

[Mrs.Cicero]

4 minutes ago, railfancwb said:

Lots of solar panel farms in middle Tennessee, eliminating formerly productive agricultural land. Wonder where they will put the panels as they die. Note that a nice cover of snow and ice may protect the panels from hailstones. 

Just here to point out the WEF tyrants want all the coal, natgas, and nuke plants shut down and replaced with wind and solar on land that will no longer grow crops, while simultaneously telling everyone their home gardens are bad for the climate, and we must allow big ag companies to grow all the food commercially… while Bill Gates is buying up all the farmland in the United States… come to your own conclusions.

[Mrs.Cicero]

6 minutes ago, DAKA said:

Won't need agricultural land, billy gates is gonna' have us eain' bugs  

Either that or Haitian Barbecue… helluva way to reduce the population…

[El Spicoli]

We devise our own demise.

[LostinTexas]

People died here as a direct result of the "Green" power generation a couple years ago. $Billions in property damage.

Lesson learned? Not a chance, just throw more and more up, then bury the decaying blades in our countryside. Shackling fossil fuel plants along the way.

Criminal bastards.

[gwalchmai]

13 hours ago, El Spicoli said:

We devise our own demise.

But, but, everybody loves the Stay-Puft Man...

 

[El Spicoli]

2 hours ago, gwalchmai said:

But, but, everybody loves the Stay-Puft Man...

 

I ain't afraid of no ghosts and most people don't fear God, in fact they mock Him (to use the "proper" pronoun).    What can you do?  Be a light, share the Gospel, and look up because soon and very soon....

[minderasr]

16 hours ago, Mrs.Cicero said:

Bill Gates is buying up all the farmland in the United States

China is doing the same...or at least trying to.

[Ramjet38]

22 hours ago, LostinTexas said:

People died here as a direct result of the "Green" power generation a couple years ago. $Billions in property damage.

Lesson learned? Not a chance, just throw more and more up, then bury the decaying blades in our countryside. Shackling fossil fuel plants along the way.

Criminal bastards.

I think those blades could be cut in half and put up as a wall at the border.

[Huaco Kid]

3 minutes ago, Ramjet38 said:

I think those blades could be cut in half and put up as a wall at the border.

Why not make hundreds of miles of (heavily compacted together) of extremely low windmills.

Charge to watch streaming video.

Watch them as they try to dodge the blade tips (WOOF...  WOOF....  WOOF...  WOOF... ) in a Frogger-type frenzy!

[Batesmotel]

They are also putting turbines in the ocean. Whale sushi anyone?Yes they kill fish and marine mammals.

The other ones are large blades that just go back and forth as they generate energy. They are supposed to be secured to the sea floor but they move around and break free from the moorings and damage life on the seabed.