Germany Slowly Getting off Russian Gas By Not Restarting Nuclear
There is some mostly empty talk from Germany about reducing imports of Russian energy.
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Legacy German Auto Sales Down 30% but Tesla Up 300%
Here are car sales figures for 2019 to 2022. It shows Tesla had 300% sales growth and legacy auto down an average of about 30% (excluding Tesla being up 300%). Germany 🇩🇪 Q1.2022 vs Q1.2019 (to ignore the lockdowns) Audi: -29.9% BMW: -19.6% Dacia: -15.8% Ford: -55.8% Hyundai: -21.1% Kia: +0.1% Mercedes: -25.9% Opel: -38.5% …
Ukraine and Russia Both Lose
Chris Cappy of Task and Purpose and Bill Roggio are both veterans of the US military. They both agree that some delays and problems for Russia are expected. However, Russia is reaching its military objectives. The 40-mile long column of tanks are stopped to set up a forward base of operations. Artillery and tanks are …
Germany Doubling Defense Spending in 2022
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced to parliament on Sunday Germany will raise its defense and military spending above 2% of its total GDP. They will spend €100 billion ($112.7 billion) of the 2022 budget for the armed forces. Germany spent €47 billion in 2021. Germany will be third place in defense spending after the USA …
Germany Needs to Keep Nuclear to Hit 2030 Climate Targets
Germany failed to meet its 2020 clean energy target and will lose 12% of its clean energy if it shuts 8 GW of current nuclear power. Germany will miss its 2030 climate target of 65 percent less emissions that in 1990 emissions. They are projected to miss by 16 percentage points and reach only 49 …
Outside of First Building at Tesla GigaBerlin Factory is Mostly Done
The walls and roof for the first factory building at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin are done. There appear to be four main buildings and several smaller ones. Tesla has published plans which show four main buildings and about eight smaller ones. SOURCES- Tesla, GigaBerlin Youtube Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com Brian WangBrian Wang is a …
External Walls and Roof of Tesla Giga Berlin On Track for August Completion
Tesla is using large cranes to put pre-constructed wall and roof sections into place for the Gigafactory in Berlin. This appears to be on track to reach the completion of the outside building structure by the end of August. This would place the factory at about the June 2020 stage of Tesla Shanghai. There would …
German Nuclear Phase Out Boosted Emissions by 5% and Caused Over 10,000 Deaths
Carnegie Mellon University, Berkeley and other researchers used hourly data on power plant operations and a novel machine learning framework to estimate how German electrical plants would have operated differently if the nuclear phase-out had not occurred. They found that the lost nuclear electricity production due to the phase-out was replaced primarily by coal-fired production …
Germany Solar and Wind is Triple the Cost of France’s Nuclear and Will Last Half as Long
France’s nuclear energy spending was 60% of what Germany spent on renewables. France gets about 400 Terawatt hour per year from nuclear but Germany gets 226 Terawatt-hours each year. 45 Terawatt-hours of Germany’s renewable power comes from burning biomass which generates air pollution. Germany’s solar farms will have to be rebuilt every 15-25 years. The …
Germany and UK Will Be in Recession if Third Quarter GDP Growth is Negative
Germany might have a recession in 2019. Commerzbank Chief Economist Joerg Kraemer and Kiel Institute economist Jens Boysen-Hogrefe agreed that while there is more pain to come for Germany’s manufacturing sector, the nation’s current construction boom would inhibit any government stimulus program. Germany’s second-quarter German GDP was negative and the third quarter we might see …
Japan and German Emissions Went Up After Nuclear Shutdowns
Japan’s emissions went up after nuclear reactors were shutdown after Fukushima Tsunami. Germany’s emissions also went up for 3 out of four years after nuclear energy shutdowns. Following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Germany permanently shut down eight of its 17 reactors Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science …