Germany has Officially gone Looney Tunes

When you look at what the mayor of Vilnius does with illegally parked cars ... there must be more than one of such pop-ups now



Official Vilnius City website

Is it illegally parked, or does it belong to his ex-wife?

According to the BBC

They should have some sort of competition, with crushing illegally parked cars as the prize. I'd rather do that than carry the Olympic flame.

Wait, until Coke's London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay is at your place and decide which is better, afterwards

That's not fair, It would only work if a tank came at the same time.

I'm not sure, but perhaps you could do such in Bovington.

If you're going to do this, get a real tank, don't be screwin' around with some puny APC . . .

I am taking my little boy there for a day out in the next couple of weeks

It is my understanding that a large percent of Germany electric power is coming over the border from pro-nuclear France now.

I had not google/research the subject that is just the impression that I had gotten from reading some articles over the years.

I guess it PC and green to shut down your nuclear plants and then buy power from nuclear plants and coal plants across your borders.

You right Germany is Looney Tunes for that action alone.


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The German network will be fed from abroad
(photo: DAPD).


Monday 04 April 2011


The electricity supply in Germany has been the temporary closure of the seven oldest nuclear power plants rely more on imports from France. The Federal Republic has become the net exporter to net importer of electricity, says the Federal Association of Energy and Water. The government denies this, RWE is feared a blackout in southern Germany.

entry into force of the nuclear moratorium, Germany imports apparently twice as much electricity from France as in the past. Adds that the Federal Republic has become the net exporter to net importer of electricity, said the Federal Association of Energy and Water (BDEW) at the Hannover Messe.

Since 17 Accordingly, in March, Germany imported 50 gigawatt-hours a day more than it exported. “Have the power flows from France and the Czech Republic doubled,” said Hildegard Müller BDEW boss. France has Europe by far the most nuclear reactors, they account for more than three-quarters of the electricity in the neighboring country. Czech Republic relies mainly on coal power plants and about one-quarter to nuclear power. Critics of the nuclear moratorium, the federal government had indicated that it do not make sense in Germany to shut down nuclear power plant, then cover missing quantity by nuclear power or climate-damaging coal electricity from abroad.



Government does

this is my favourite German Looney Tunes episode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herr_Meets_Hare

Generally, Germany imports and exports electric power, with changing daily amount due to daily changing electricity prices.

Until April 2011, we exported (in total) more than we imported.
The imports from France didn't change until April this year, but than went up due to the fact that a couple of our nuclear power stations weren't online.
So, from April this year onwards, we now (in total) import more than we export.
The nuclear import from France (1450 MWh) and Czech (1058) is indeed larger than that (wind) from Denmark (1860)less - in total, we just now have an import balance of 1555MW (import 4576 vs. export 3021).

I don't know if it's really PC (but it has always been the main topic and aim for the 'Greens').

However, public opinion tend to favour this. And our conservative/liberal [liberal here = centre-right classical liberal] government decided it.

Oh no! I suggest you leave Germany immediately then.

The Christian Democrats and the Free Democrats have always been against nuclear power. In other news, Eurasia has always been at war with Oceania.

Interesting..................

Somehow the logic of paying someone else for power produce in their nuclear plants instead of your nuclear plants just across the border seem odd to say the least.

I do not know the wind patterns between France and Germany but if a large scale nuclear accident would occur on French soil near the border somehow I do not think that Germany would be one hell of a lot better off then if it occur on their own soil for example.

Then how about all the lovely coal dust being placed in the air by Czech Republic how is the winds patterns between them and Germany?

Your Greens seems not to be tied into the real world too tightly.

I've been both in the Czech Republic as well as in the German bordering regions. I haven't that "lovely coal dust", nor could I find any data online to back your view.

As said above: the Greens are in our federal parliament, but not in the federal government.
They are partners in some state government coalitions. However, every power company decides for itself, where they buy what kind of electricity, on a daily basis at the electricity exchange.

Government only comes into play in regard to the "electricity mix" which those companies have to declare to the end-use customer (which is as average over Germany 17,3 % renewable energy, 24,9 % nuclear energy and 57,8 % coal energy).

I am going to have to research on the claimed of 17.3 renewable as that seems very high with today technology to say the least.

Bet someone is doing very creative bookkeeping to come up with that kind of a number.

Hmm let me see from my memory of WW2 history and the British attempts to attacked them you do have some very large dams so perhaps that where you could get that high a percent of renewable energy as it surely not from wind or solar cells.

I agree. And I agree that's one of the reasons why shutting down Germany's nuclear power plants is a bad idea.


It's a thing of the past. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Czech Republic has done a good on their brown-coal power plants. They either cleaned them up or shut them down. Consequently, brown coal dust is no longer a problem.


You seem to be working from Op-Ed articles by authors who are 20 years behind on their facts.