German energy minister invents new unit of measurement

In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Habeck coined the term “climate watt hour” without correction. What that means is completely unclear.

Have the Greens invented a new unit of measurement for energy? Habeck was allowed to elaborate quite unchallenged on “climate watt hours” on Boxing Day.

In a kind of advertising article for the country’s Renewable Energy Plan [Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz, abbreviated to EEG], the FAZ invited the energy minister to rant on about utopian wind turbine targets. He expressed the desire to add an additional 10 gigawatts of wind power per year. That means about 2000 more windmills per year. However, this is technically impossible because eight new wind turbines would then have to be constructed every working day.

In addition, municipalities should benefit from the profits of the wind farm operators. In this context, Habeck used the term “climate watt hour”. He admitted that “ten gigawatts of new construction per year is of course a really high number – we’ve never done that in Germany, we’ve never been there – and that’s permanent”.

In addition, of course, the article did not inquire as to where the electricity should come from when there is no wind.

The FAZ reported verbatim:

The municipalities have now been given the right to share in the profits of the wind farm operators. “The municipalities can then use this financial participation of the municipalities in the amount of 0,2 cents per climate watt hour for other things, for example to renovate the swimming pool or outdoor pool. We are strengthening regional value creation through renewable energies.” Habeck also referred to a location advantage: “Companies will seek out and prefer regions that have a high density of renewable energies.”

The article in the FAZ is still online without correction.

Almost half of the electricity in Germany in 2022 came from renewable sources, he said. The goal of the government is to increase the share of electricity generated from renewable energies in electricity consumption to at least 80 percent by 2030.

People are dying because of the cold

With their ideological lie about the “energy transition”, the Greens have driven the country into the coldest Germany in its democratic history, according to former Bild editor Julien Reichelt.

“Because of high energy prices, because of low heating, people are dying,” he said.

“Cold is life-threatening. Much more dangerous than heat. Around 4,5 million people die every year as a result of the cold. Nine times more than the 500 000 people who die as a result of heat. You can tell that cold is far more dangerous than heat by the fact that our language knows the word ‘freeze’ but no word for dying from heat.

“Cold is dangerous, among other things, because our blood pressure rises when it is cold. Blood pressure is an absolute killer.

“The less heating, and that is exactly what the Green Party is asking us to do, the more people die as a direct result. There are countless ways to die from the cold, you don’t have to freeze to death straight away.”

Reichelt demonstrated how the “cold horror curve in Europe” showed the direct impact of energy prices being pushed up by green ideology.

“High energy prices will claim lives. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives. The curves were calculated by the data analysts of the Economist, the best business magazine in the world.”

Meanwhile there has been an excess mortality of 60 573 deaths in England and Wales, which can be attributed to the cold. This compares to 791 deaths that can be attributed to heat: A ratio of one heat death to 76,8 cold deaths. This is the stuff with which climate hysterics want to construct a health catastrophe from heat, an undertaking that can no longer be surpassed in terms of cynicism.

In the course of their decarbonization fervor, the traffic-light coalition has also been touting green hydrogen. But because hydrogen changes the composition of the atmosphere, the climate impact could be much more serious than that of carbon dioxide. This is never questioned, and the traffic-light continues to subsidize the hydrogen industry with billions of taxpayers’ money.