Germany begins to enter winter denying necessary power plants to operate – A sharp drop because of that?

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Via P Gosselin above 5. July 2022

The energy and gas crisis is growing in Germany…

By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt
(Translated by P. Gosselin, a hyperlink added)

There is another taboo law that the German federal government does not want to touch: the denuclearization law. Most people in Germany have come across the flawed statements of Chairman Green of Federal Cyber ​​Agency, Klaus MüllerAccordingly, nuclear power plants do not generate heat and therefore do not help mitigate gas shortages.

But 14% of electricity comes from gas-fired power plants. We will only be able to replace 2/3 of power plants run on gas by strengthening coal-fired power plants. In the end, eliminating three nuclear power plants would mean giving up a large portion of this savings, because the discarded electricity cannot be replaced by any other means than by gas-fired power plants. burn.

Even the rapid expansion of wind and solar power (which, by the way, only produces electricity) is not helping. To replace the electricity of three nuclear power plants running numerically, one person needs two-thirds of the 2.2 million existing solar power plants. In other words: to replace this amount of electricity, we need 5 to 10 years to replace the gap of about 35 TWh with new PV power plants. And then we will still have no electricity at night.

Power company Evonik CEO Christian Kullmann vividly described the extent of the gas crisis: Imagine a gas transit train that starts in Seville and ends in Frankfurt [1860 km], one wagon at a time on the whole trip. And he asked the question about How long can the German chemical industry get this gas?. Mind you, only the chemical industry. Answer: 6 hours. About 5.6 million jobs are affected by the lack of natural gas. It’s not about Shorter shower.