German riot police clear protesters for coal mine expansion

Amid the energy crisis in Europe, and a looming shut down of the last nuclear plants in Germany in April 2023 and declining gas input; coal has been revived as the baseload power in Germany.<p>In the last months of 2022, about a third of power production came from coal. In 2006, about a third instead came from nuclear plants.<p>Source (Swedish): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tn.se&#x2F;naringsliv&#x2F;24056&#x2F;efter-nedlaggningen-av-karnkraft-nu-vantar-brunkol-i-vagguttagen&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tn.se&#x2F;naringsliv&#x2F;24056&#x2F;efter-nedlaggningen-av-ka...</a><p>Officially coal is supposed to be phased out by 2030.

The irony here is that members of the green party are demonstrating against policies that their own party agreed to.

It is a physical impossibility to have one’s cake and eat it too. The only energy source that can provide green energy reliably going forward is nuclear, but the Greens have always been against it.<p>Wind and solar don’t work in Central Europe.<p>Whats left, now that the wolf is at the door, if you want the lights on and heat for the family?<p>Dirty coal.

The biggest scam of renewables is not the viability of the technology itself, but the lie by omission that all renewables require baseload power which always happens to be non-renewable. The massive expansion of gas peaking plants in Germany, Europe and the rest of the developed world is the prime example of the lie.<p>Statistics are presented about the benefits of renewables, which seemingly never include the environmental destruction of the gas peaking plants propping them up.<p>If you counter with &#x27;what about batteries&#x27;, the lie by omission shifts from environmental destruction to child slavery. Battery supply chains cannot escape the contaminant that is child slavery.<p>Of course, this is while the West agreed to give China and India free reign to build unlimited coal plants until 2030.<p>Why can&#x27;t renewables shake these fundamental deceptions? You&#x27;re either hiding emissions (gas) or hiding child slavery (batteries).

Rightfully so.<p>Germany is facing the danger of de-industrialization and losing their economy, they need to react fast to get energy prices back to a realistic level, Its not the time for rosy climate goals and climate extremists(Die letzte Generation), the entire country is at risk.<p>Despite other comments saying Germany is wasting its taxes, the way Germany handled the gas crisis is certainly better than the UK, which ironically should&#x27;ve been less affected.<p>high taxes allowed Germany to strike new deals with Qatar, and to buy gas from alternative, certainty more expensive suppliers.