
Energy Deficient: Wind & Solar Obsessed Germany Faces Long Dark Winter
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With another bitter winter biting and suicidal renewable energy policies, Germans are reaping the whirlwind. Suffering Europe’s highest power prices and routine power rationing, is just the beginning. Mass blackouts and deliberate power cuts, like those suffered last winter, are guaranteed. Such is life when you attempt to run on sunshine and breezes.
Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt was Managing Director of RWE Innogy GmbH – the renewable energy sector – from 2008 to 2012. Until 2019, he was the sole director of the German Wildlife Foundation. Vahrenholt, who holds a doctorate in chemistry, has been an honorary professor at the University of Hamburg. He has been signalling the obvious for years now: Germany’s obsession with wind and solar is destroying it from within.
Gross Energy Mismanagement: Energy Expert Warns Of Europe Power Blackouts, “Numerous Deaths”
No Tricks Zone
Pierre Gosselin
23 November 2021
In a recent interview with independent journalist Boris…
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The Loophole Behind NYC’s Skinny Skyscrapers – Cheddar Explains
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in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, Public Choice, urban economics Tags: zoning
2017 National Poll Results – Abortion Law Reform gender gap
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in gender, politics - New Zealand Tags: abortion law reform
December 11, 1688: The Glorious Revolution of 1688: King James II-VII is Captured at Faversham
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The Queen (Mary of Modena) and James Francis, Prince of Wales left for France on December 9, 1688 and King James II-VII followed separately on 10th. Accompanied only by Sir Edward Hales and Ralph Sheldon, James made his way to Faversham in Kent seeking passage to France, first dropping the Great Seal in the Thames in a last ditch attempt to prevent Parliament being summoned.
In London, his flight and rumours of a “Papist” invasion led to riots and destruction of Catholic property, which quickly spread throughout the country. To fill the power vacuum, the Earl of Rochester set up a temporary government including members of the Privy Council and City of London authorities, but it took them two days to restore order.
When news arrived James II-VII had been captured in Faversham on 11 December 11, by local fishermen, Lord Ailesbury, one of his personal attendants, was sent to…
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December 11, 1936: Acession of HRH Prince Albert, Duke of York as King George VI of the United Kingdom
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As King Edward VIII was unmarried and had no children, Prince Albert, Duke of York, was the heir presumptive to the throne. Less than a year later, on December 11, 1936, Edward abdicated in order to marry Wallis Simpson who was divorced from her first husband and in the process of divorcing her second.
Edward VIII had been advised by British prime minister Stanley Baldwin that he could not remain king and marry a divorced woman with two living ex-husbands. He abdicated and Albert, though he had been reluctant to accept the throne, became king. The day before the abdication, Albert went to London to see his mother, Queen Mary. He wrote in his diary, “When I told her what had happened, I broke down and sobbed like a child.”
As mentioned yesterday the abdication document was signed on December 10, 1936 At Fort Belvedere. King Edward VIII signed his…
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Saudi Arabia’s Oil Problem
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in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, Public Choice Tags: oil, Saudi Arabia
Dividing Up The Middle East – The Creation of Lebanon I THE GREAT WAR 1920
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in defence economics, technological progress, war and peace Tags: World War I
Monumental Design Fail: Industrial Wind Turbines Simply Can’t Handle High Winds
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When the weather turns nasty, giant industrial wind turbines simply turn off. When there’s no wind, they produce nothing; when winds hit gale force, they produce nothing. It’s as if their designers included Goldilocks, the porridge thief who wanted things “just right” and snubbed her nose at all that wasn’t.
Modern industrial wind turbines do not operate when wind speeds hit around 25 m/s (90kph or 55mph) – when Hurricane Harvey hit Texas back in August 2017, he dished up a gale double that speed, and more.
In order to prevent their catastrophic disintegration (as seen in the video below) Texas’s wind turbines deliberately downed tools, en masse, (as they are deliberately designed to do) leaving the critical work of providing power to storm-battered Texans to its fleet of nuclear power plants.
America’s Great Plains are touted by wind power rent-seekers as prime territory for subsidy gouging; they claim the…
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December 10, 1936: The Abdication Crisis
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In 1936 a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King-Emperor Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second.
Opposition
Opposition to the King and his marriage came from several directions. Edward’s desire to modernise the monarchy and make it more accessible, though appreciated by many of the public, was distrusted by the British Establishment. Edward upset the aristocracy by treating their traditions and ceremonies with disdain, and many were offended by his abandonment of accepted social norms and mores.
Social and moral
Government ministers and the royal family found Wallis Simpson’s background and behaviour unacceptable for a potential queen. Rumours and innuendo about her circulated in society. The King’s mother, Queen Mary, was even told that Simpson might have held some sort of sexual control over Edward, as she had released…
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The Hanoverians: William IV (1830-1837)
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When George IV’s only daughter died, the crown fell to his younger brother, William. As a teenager William was sent into the Royal Navy where he developed a strict sense of etiquette, earning him the future moniker “The Sailor King.” He also served in the American Revolutionary War –news of his presence apparently spawned an abortive plot by George Washington to kidnap the young prince. During the Napoleonic Wars, William became friendly with Lord Nelson, but once attaining a command of his own William proved unpopular among the men. His time in the Navy was marked by an endless parade of drinking and womanizing around the world. He rose in the ranks to attain a largely ceremonial title, Lord High Admiral, but he soon lost the respect of those around him and William was effectively forced to resign his post.

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