Storage needs are obvious for years if not decades. Yet there are none viable so far, at least at larger level. Germany is most obviously suffering from it.
It is a problem. First, energy prices are negative if there is a worldwide surplus - thinks summer with long sunny and perhaps windy days, hence you have to pay for somebody to take it. But the real problem is that they can't store for times when they need it, and when that time comes (specially during winter), they burn coal. A lot of it. Or gas. Basically they have to cover worst case scenario with production.
The negative energy price problem is entirely made up. the companies running the grid can ground surplus energy any time. nobody gets paid to take energy in Germany ever. Free energy is not a problem. It's a solution.
Also Germany has lots of pump storage plants and can store enormous amounts of electricity and use them when they later need it.
Germany is about to phase out coal and gas and just still uses it, because the transition period is a bit slow.
Hm, OK, what are they going to do during short and cloudy winter days? And you are optimistic if you think Germany has enough pump or other storage to survive winter without burning coal, gas or imports. A lot of those.
first of all solar produces power even on cloudy days, just less.
it's rarely cloudy in a whole country the size of Germany, but if it is, it's usyally also good conditions for wind power.
in any case, Germany has some ermergency plans. the LNG terminals they quickly started building while having russia problems were planned so they can be switched to green hydrogen imports in the future.
also it's normal to trade energy with European neighbours. everyone is trying not to be a burden for their neighbours though. btw this was of great help when Frances rivers ran dry during the last hot summer and Frances nuclear reactors couldn't operate due to lack of cooling water.
Germany isn't done switching to 100% renewable yet. Lots of homes are still connected to city wide gas networks (for stoves and heating, but it's on track and things are looking good.
German citizens energy bills are required to have diagrams about the energy mix used to provide them with electricity and coal and gas grow smaller every year.
first of all solar produces power even on cloudy days, just less.
Oh, much much less. Even bigger problem is that days are short, those panels don't produce anything at all during night.
in any case, Germany has some ermergency plans. the LNG terminals they quickly started building while having russia problems were planned so they can be switched to green hydrogen imports in the future.
Again, relying on somebody else. Plus there is no green hydrogen at that scale anywhere in the world, nor the storage is there - abroad and in Germany.
also it’s normal to trade energy with European neighbours. everyone is trying not to be a burden for their neighbours though. btw this was of great help when Frances rivers ran dry during the last hot summer and Frances nuclear reactors couldn’t operate due to lack of cooling water.
What country would exchange summer time energy for winter time one? If there is a wider problem with energy supply, each country will take care of itself first.
But yes, drought it's a problem with older NPPs, new ones are better at cooling AFAIK.
Germany isn’t done switching to 100% renewable yet.
And that's why it was really smart of Germans to close all NPPs yesterday.
I would appreciate this mbfc content on smaller less well known sources but imo we can assume Reuters and other big names are already trusted.
Also this article is a simple reporting of unambiguous events that undoubtedly occurred so there's really no need to check the source. It's not an interpretation of a political situation.
This is working as intended, Ukraine attacks refineries, which makes it necessary for Russia to export crude oil at lower prices.
This way Ukraine can hit the Russian economy, without causing oil prices to increase on the global market, something Ukrainian allies have expressed concern about.
It is allegedly already causing difficulties for Russia to refine enough oil for their needs for their war against Ukraine, and that makes it necessary for Russia to export crude oil and buy some of it back at higher prices after it has been refined.
So it looks that the State of Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 147 of the 193 member states of the United Nations. Hope I'm counting correctly and didn't leave out a country, cause it looks like the relevant wiki page [International recognition of the State of Palestine] has not yet been updated. Not even for Ireland's recognition of Palestine and that happened last month. Soon I hope.
For me the question remains. What could make the remaining white colonialists and Zionist settler colonialists change their minds and finally recognize Palestine, so that a 2-state solution is implemented.
They also know what collaborating with the Nazis is like.
I haven't heard about this before, so I can't argue about it at this point.
Then you say:
So I don’t think Armenia’s decision will have much of an effect.
How you managed to draw this conclusion from your previous statement, is a mystery to me.
And since you mentioned Nazi collaborations, I'll say the following. I noticed that the sources you provided the one is Zionist and the other Polish, and both collaborated with Nazis for sure.
we speak with activist and blogger Tony Greenstein, a veteran of the Palestine solidarity movement in the UK, about his new book "Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation."
How you managed to draw this conclusion from your previous statement, is a mystery to me.
A state that is currently glorifying Nazi collaborators will automatically be dismissed as hostile to Jews and to Israel. Any action of theirs in related matters is therefore irrelevant.
Unless they have a different goal. Like getting closer to states like Iran.
And since you mentioned Nazi collaborations, I'll say the following. I noticed that the sources you provided the one is Zionist and the other Polish, and both collaborated with Nazis for sure.
How is that relevant to news sources?
I was pointing out that Armenia is currently glorifying a Nazi collaborator, building statues of him and calling him a hero. Not in the past.
Reuters and AP News are really the only two sources I pretty much implicitly trust anymore. As far as I'm concerned, the person reporting false news and attributing it to Reuters should be hung by the neck until dead.
I think Reuters only has a Best of feed from their agency side, which isn't really that useful as a news feed. All their feeds seem to be shut down, at least the ones I had stopped working.
Oh I know, what I mean is when the major US outlets just say "A Reuters report says (XYZ)....and WE say that means ABCD!" like that is hardly good journalism, that's more along the lines of glorified op-eds.
The frustration is how AP and Reuters report the facts of what's going on, and then the other outlets take that and TELL you how to feel about it rather than do their own fact finding
I trust Reuters more than I trust Media Bias Fact Check. I of course still vary my media diet, but they're certainly a pillar of it.
Seem to remember that they had a big scandal with a climate change denier editor that changed some articles a few years ago. Good to remember that no oragnisation is above scrutiny.
People faked loads of shit regarding what Israel did or didn't. These fake news aren't really a new thing. Interesting that they now say reuters said something they just didn't...
Have you heard Wab Kinew speak? He's got my vote. First politician I've ever heard speaking real shit. Maybe he's full of shit and will fuck it all up, but I have hope. I agree that Jagmeet shouldn't get a 10th chance.
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