“Mugged By Reality”

April 14, 2023 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Energy, German, Germans, Germany, Green energy, Greens, Hysteria, Nuclear energy, Renewables Leave a comment

That’s a great way to put it. But hey. It’s what the Germans want.

Nobody else gets it, of course. Personally, I think it’s just good old-fashioned German megalomania again. Only this time they’re saving the planet instead of conquering the world.

Germans Are Getting Mugged by Reality of Green Energy (the last German nuclear reactors are being shut down tomorrow).

“The impact [of the energy crisis] is easy to say, I just have a lot less money. I now pay a quarter more in electricity since the Ukraine war started. The annual Warmmiete [warm rent] that I pay, which covers rent, heating, and hot water, is now 20% higher, not including the additional costs I have to pay at the end of the year. There are some people using only natural gas as a heating source who are paying 55% more.”

German Companies Leaving Hungary Almost As Fast As They’re Leaving Germany

April 3, 2023 By Hermann Observer in Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Hurt Feelings Tags: Business, Corruption, Costs, Energy, Germany, Hungary, Industry Leave a comment

In Germany they can’t afford to stay (energy costs).

In Hungary they can’t afford to pay (baksheesh). Or so they say.

Viktor Orbán Ups the Pressure on German Companies to Leave Hungary – German companies have long been active in Hungary. But now, Viktor Orbán is trying to force some of them to leave. And when they do, his closest allies stand to profit.

“How The Biggest Fraud In German History Unravelled?”

March 1, 2023 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Energy, Frauds, German, Germans, Germany, Greens, Language, Renewables, Wirecard Leave a comment

Do they mean the Energiewende (the Green renewable “energy turnaround”)?

Oh. They’re only talking about Wirecard. Yeah. That one was pretty cool too. Peanuts compared to the Energiewende fraud, though. But still.

The tech company Wirecard was embraced by the German élite. But a reporter discovered that behind the façade of innovation were lies and links to Russian intelligence.

How Stunning And Brave

January 13, 2023 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Climate Change, Energy, Germany, Greens, Hysteria, Lützerath, Media, MSM, Protestors, Rituals Leave a comment

And hilarious and ridiculous. Absurd, too.

And really, really, dumb. That the media could think anybody is interested in this nonsense anymore, I mean. German catastrophist activists have been performing this dopey performance art ritual since the 80s, at least.

Climate activists ‘prepared to risk lives’ to stop German coalmine – Hundreds of protesters prepare to defy police at abandoned village of Lützerath in North Rhine Westphalia.

Expert At Losing Bets Waxes Poetic On Gambling

January 6, 2023 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Dependency, Energy, Energy Crisis, Gas, Germans, Germany, Greens, Pipelines, Putin, Renewables, Ukraine Leave a comment

If the Germans don’t know about losing energy bets, nobody does. Old Vlad better listen up.

Putin has gambled away gas leverage, says German vice-chancellor – Robert Habeck says ‘half of our eggs were in the basket of Putin’ but Germany is now recovering capacity.

Vladimir Putin has gambled away his gas leverage over Europe, Germany’s vice-chancellor has claimed as he sounded a note of cautious optimism over his country’s energy supplies during a visit to Norway.

Green, Blue…

January 5, 2023 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Energy, Germany, Green energy, Greens, Hydrogen, Renewables Leave a comment

They’re all too yellow to admit that none of this will deliver enough energy in their lifetimes, if ever at all.

Germany and Norway reach blue hydrogen agreement – Germany’s RWE and Norway’s Equinor have agreed to supply Germany with low-emissions hydrogen fuel. The long-term plan is to provide 100% cleanly sourced green hydrogen.

What is blue hydrogen? For years, the prospect of clean hydrogen fuel — which emits mostly water vapor when burned — has excited those hoping to abandon fossil fuels.

However, the production of completely clean “green” hydrogen, which is separated from water with power generated by clean renewables such as solar and wind, is not currently viable at a large scale.

The alternative “blue” hydrogen, which is produced by burning gas, remains a cheaper option and aims to capture and store more than 95% of emissions.

Try To Remember…

December 15, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Dependency, Energy, Energy Crisis, Gas, Greens, Pipelines, Putin, Renewables Leave a comment

The kind of December
When gas was there and temps so mellow…

Nobody said “saving the planet” would be easy.

Snow covers Germany amid gas crunch – As Germany experienced its coldest December in a decade, the government implored residents to exercise restraint on turning up the heat.

“Germany is still very, very far from having its gas needs totally covered for the next two years. Because of this, in spite of the cold, I implore you to exercise restraint with gas use.”

More Windmills ASAP!

December 13, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Energy, Energy Crisis, Gas, German, Germans, Germany, Greens, Pipelines, Putin, Renewables, Ukrain, Utopia Leave a comment

Our solar panals don’t seem to be working properly here in Germany at the moment. It’s all dark and cloudy or something. And white. Geez. Why is it so cold all of a sudden?

This “saving the planet” stuff can be a real ice-cold bitch.

Germany at risk of gas shortages as consumption cutting target missed – Country has scrambled to open up new sources of energy since start of Ukraine war.

Germany is saving less gas than necessary to rule out shortages this winter, the head of the German grid agency has said, as the country missed its crucial target of a 20% cut in consumption last week amid dropping temperatures.

A Massive Energy Cost Rise?

December 7, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Dependency, Energy, Energy Crisis, Gas, Greens, Pipelines, Putin, Renewables Leave a comment

But where did this massive rise in energy costs come from? Who is responsible?

I know. We’ll ask the government to help us!

1 in 10 Germans had not yet heated by November despite cold weather: Survey – Germans have significantly changed their heating habits due to massive rise in energy costs, research finds.

German Of The Day: Energiepreis-Stoppschild

December 4, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Humor, Hurt Feelings Tags: Consumers, Dependency, Energy, Energy Crisis, Gas, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Nuclear energy, Oil, Pipelines, Prices, Putin, Renewables Leave a comment

That means energy price stop sign.

This is a brilliant new German invention (both the word and the concept) meaning that energy providers must first explain why they will be raising prices before going ahead and raising them anyway. Thanks German government (the ones who created this energy crisis in Germany in the first place), German citizens are most certainly saying, we wouldn’t be able to sleep soundly at night without you.

Germany to force energy providers to justify future price hikes – The German government plans to allow energy providers to raise prices next year only if objectively justified, the economy ministry said on Saturday, denying a media report that Berlin planned a ban on all energy price hikes for consumers.

Observing Hermann

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