Last updated on March 1, 2013
Ok, now it is official: Germany has gone batshit crazy.
Power firms should invest massively in coal and gas-fired power technology and renewable energy sources, Harry Voigtsberger, economy minister of Germany’s most populous state North Rhine Westphalia, said in the Financial Times Deutschland.
The original article can be read here (in german).
Angela Markel seems to be agreeing…
In a document from Friday’s meeting obtained by Reuters, Merkel and her ministers laid out a six-point plan that includes a 5 billion-euro credit programme to support renewables.
It will also require building new gas and coal plants, Merkel said. “Gas and coal power plants were discussed… an accelerated exit from nuclear energy will lead to replacement power stations,” she said.
Why? So they can get rid of nuclear power…
This is about as stupid an idea as to say that in order to prevent paper cuts to your finger you should cut off your arms!
Sure… you achieve what you aimed for… but did you really concider the side effects before you took a knife and started carving?
Diese dummen Deutschen…
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Do you have a link to what you claim the minister have said?
Ok, hint for those not-so-internet-savvy: blue text = clickable link.
Sorry Mr. Karnefors your arrogance backfires on yourself once again. There is no link to that statement.
Thanks for the heads up… seems the original article we linked to has been edited. A replacement link has fixed that and a new quote from the original article shows that now we have not only economy minister of one of the federation states saying it; now it’s also Angela Merkel and some of her ministers.
Good job (Not) Per. That really helped our case. 🙂
Mr. Karnerfors how come you believe that making up fake quotes helps your case?
How do you think that ignoring facts as they happen right before your very eyes is helping yours?
Seriously… it never ceases to amaze me what lengths you anti-nukeheads are prepared to to go promote nonsense as long as it supports your opinion…. and the extreme vigour with which you work to shut out, deny and distort facts that speak against it.
Does it really hurt your pride that much to concider the fact that you might have been wrong? I suppose it does…
Mr. Karnerfors how do you think that ignoring facts as they happen right before your very eyes is helping yours?
Seriously… it never ceases to amaze me what lengths you nukeheads are prepared to to go promote nonsense as long as it supports your opinion…. and the extreme vigour with which you work to shut out, deny and distort facts that speak against it’s problems.
Does it really hurt your pride that much to consider the fact that you might have been wrong? I know it does.
I guess I was right: you don’t have an original thought of your own. You are a one-trick-pony that only knows the standard trick Cut & Paste..
And now I have found the original article in Financial Times Deutchland.
But still nothing close to what NPYP claimed he said.
Well why don’t you call Reuters and tell them they misquoted them then.
The original article doesn’t report the quote mentioned. Most of the article talks about building a grid to bring the energy produced by the windfarms in the north down to the industrial south. It’s only at the end that there is this quote:
Er forderte die Konzerne auf, massiv in die Modernisierung fossiler Kraftwerke zu investieren.
He urged the companies to invest heavily in the modernization of fossil fuel power plants. is not the same as you quoted. You left a key word like modernization out of the equation.did you cut and paste from somewhere?
Michael did not leave out any word, it is a cut and paste from the English article in the first link, but you are correct that it does not seem to be a direct quote of what was said in the original article. Please take a few minutes to read the comments before yours, and you will see that there were some development of the post over time.
But, does it matter? The signal is clear: no matter how much and impressive investments that will be done in renewables, smart grids etc., the investments in fossil fuels (in whatever form) means that they will remain for a long time. The investments in renewables will have to replace nuclear first before they can do any impact on fossil fuels.