Comments by "Volker R. šŸ‡©šŸ‡Ŗ" (@volkerr.) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1. German šŸ‡©šŸ‡Ŗhere. We have only storage capacity for about 40 minutes. So thereā€™s no sense in bringing in more PV and wind. We still need a backup for all of that.
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  2. an acquaintance of mine used to be the CEO of SiemensšŸ‡©šŸ‡Ŗ. His name is Heinrich von Pierer. He blames our green politicians for our energy mess and for the destrucrion of our German industry. Many of our big companies leave Germany for USA, China and other countries with much cheaper energy prices and with less environmental regulations.
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  3. Because financially it never pays off
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  4. Nuclear power on the long run needs least space. šŸ˜Š Photovoltaik is a good Addition. But it will never ever work as a single solution.
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  5. They are less effective than new ones and degradation comes additionally..
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  6. My conclusion. This guy doesnā€™t know anything about German energy and the big costs and the instability of our grid. And that we currently deindustrialize our country for those big companies like BASF move away and invest their billions somewhere elsešŸ˜¢
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  7. The life lie of renewables is: they donā€™t work without back-up or imports from other countries which mostly produce their electricity with Coal or nuclear šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø
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  8. The life lie of renewables is: it doesnā€™t work without importing electricity from Neighboring countries that donā€™t rely on renewables. šŸ˜³šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļøšŸ˜©šŸ˜
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  9. Germanys energy transition was mainly built on ideology and not on common sense. Thatā€™s why itā€™s not really working. Now Germany only serves as an example on how NOT to do it šŸ˜¢
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  10. Germany has started 30 years ago. And PV still doesnā€™t work without state and financial support and regulation
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  11. German here. We meanwhile recognized it was a huge mistake to shut down nuclear power. A big majority wants to have it back now. šŸ˜Š
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  12. Even worse is that we donā€™t have no storage capacities. And we will never have them. Batteries donā€™t work in that large scale and hydrogen doesnā€™t work as well. Most projects got canceled and we actually have 0,2% of whatā€™s needed. šŸ˜®
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  13. @ those 6 NPPs weā€™ve Closed down produce electricity including all costs at 2,5 Cent/Kwh. All other costs are taxes, grid fees, feeds for renewables etc. If we had switched to 100% nuclear instead weā€™ve saved trillions of euros for sure already.
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  14. @ nuclear power plants with reliable 24/7/365 energy production will make all that unnecessary šŸ‘‹šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø
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  15. @ well thatā€™s UK. And not Germany.
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  16. Ā @mausr8488Ā  itā€™s about planning and funding. Not about physics.
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  17. As a German šŸ‡©šŸ‡Ŗ I have to fully agree with you. Unfortunately. Weā€™ve waisted aprox. 1 trillion on the ā€žEnergiewendeā€œ and all weā€™ve got is a broken country. šŸ˜¢
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  18. Canā€™t be true. In China thereā€™s a giant over capacitor and there so many panels laying in storage. Thatā€™s way China is flowering the markets on such low prices. The donā€™t earn money with that. Itā€™s all financed by the CCP šŸ«¤
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  19. Ā @mla2385Ā  das ist das Rauschen im Wald. Aber es wird nicht so funktionieren. Es wird immer ein Problem geben, das wir nur mit Import von Kohle oder Nuklearstrom lƶsen kƶnnen
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  20. Having a battery for your house almost never pays off. The money you save vs what a solar roof installation and the cost for the storage battery is, it takes aprox. 20 years to pay off. And that only if you stay at home 365 days a year. I live in southern Germany and we are every year in August one month away. if you take that into account, it never pays off.. you need to replace the battery after 20 years the latest..
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  21. Lots of new tech to improve Nuclear power are in development or about to hit the markets. AND: if we had invested 10% of that money weā€™ve so far wasted on incentivizing renewables, then we would already have all that tech available for decades..
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  22. German šŸ‡©šŸ‡Ŗ again. In Germany nothing works with renewables. We have record high prices for the enlargement of the grid - which needs to be 4 times over dimensioned. Leaving NPPs running such a huge and expensive grid enlargement wouldnā€™t have been necessary.
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  23. Water power plants arenā€™t CO2 neutral. Especially those built with dam produce with its side effects sometimes more CO2 pollution than a modern coal power plantā€¦
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  24. Ā @alan2102XĀ I have some friends working in Germanys largest electricity producer. I know what Iā€™m talking about..
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  25. In Germany and Europe most planned hydropower projects - we have already recognized that battery storage on such a large scale wonā€™t work. Thatā€™s why our greens want hydropower to be the storage - are Meanwhile canceled. Simply because it only works with massive tax support and that not only to make it run but constantly. And thatā€™s simply way too expensive..
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  26. 24/7/365..?!? šŸ¤”
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  27. Ā @SirNecroĀ  but so far it doesnā€™t work in reality. Here in Germany we incentivize PV for 30 years and it still doesnā€™t work without šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø
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  28. German here. We have kind of that. Due to Germany shutting down NPPs thereā€™s always some periods where we need our back up. And thatā€™s mostly coal. AND it affects other countries that are connected with our marktet and their electricity prices are sky rocketing in that periods. f. e. Sweden and Norway were heavily suffering because of that. So better donā€™t do itā€¦
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  29. BTW. I drive an EV (hybrid). But to believe our world could run on renewables only is insane..
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  30. Guys, donā€™t follow Germany!! Take my advice as a German. We are a cautionary tale of misguided and ideology-driven self destrucrion.
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  31. In 50 years we will produce electricity mainly from Nuclear power. Simply because it needs the least space šŸ˜Š Renewable energy is for transition onlyā€¦
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  32. @ but wind and solar arenā€™t reliable. So it takes almost 100% backup. And including those back up and storage renewable is the most expensive at all. And all the unnecessary grid enlargement (4x more than with regional NPPs) etc makes renewables the most expensive electricity. And talking about the primary energy renewables only deliver 20% so far. Itā€™s simply impossible to switch to 100% EV and 100% electric heating. Especially without nuclear energy
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  33. In Germany we had that stuff as well because it was highly state-supported. Since that ran out nobody buys them anymore.
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  34. @ nope. Fossil fuels are highly taxed and are therefore expensive. They would be several times cheaper. Diesel is highly taxed as well. Just gasoline is even higher. In Germany thereā€™s an additional diesel car(!) Tax. Tax for gasoline cars is lower.
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  35. @ to get to the point: if we want to switch all on electricity, then we need NPPs. Renewables wonā€™t work.
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  36. Prices for electricity in Germany are sky rocketing. We pay on average aprox. 35 Cent/KWh. Thereā€™s so many additional costs and taxes included - mostly needed to finance the renewables and the highly over dimensioned grid. It has to be 4 times larger now because we donā€™t have regional NPPs anymore. šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø
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  37. I have a 100 KWp Photovoltaik. In Summer thereā€˜s a lot of electricity production, at least during the day. During the night thereā€™s no production šŸ˜… and in winter thereā€™s as well almost no electricity production. So we need 100% backup for PV
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  38. @ ?!? Itā€™s not on the roof of my house. although itā€™s on the roofs of several farming buildings in eastern Germany. The usual size of such power plants is up to 750 KWp. Because thatā€™s the maximum size for a better tax incentive. šŸ˜œšŸ˜ I only own a part of it with two inverters. Which is in my case a bit below 100 KWp. Itā€™s 100% going into the grid.
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  39. To me this looks like this channel is for propaganda and to brainwash people. Surely run by some green ideologists with a leftist background. Or are you guys there down under all that weird..? šŸ˜…
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  40. Thereā€™s not enough lithium to build such huge amounts of batteries.
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  41. All lithium mining capacities would need a multiple of 22 to fulfill the future demand of lithium only for electric cars. Iā€™m a bit into mining business from the investors sideā€¦
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  42. Electricity storage is almost not possible with batteries. Thereā€™s a too high demand. At least not on a worldwide scale..
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  43. @ polls regularly show that we want our NPPs back
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  44. In Germany our installed PV capacity is able to produce more than 100% of electricity needed. When the sun is shining. And only on certain days in high season summer. šŸ˜œ
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  45. Water power is unfortunately as well a source of high CO2 pollution. If you take all connected things into account.
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  46. @ depends. Building a dam. Maintaining it. Sediments removal. Destruction of life in waters, death of trees and plants. Destraction of natural flow of rivers etcā€¦ thereā€™s a good video here on YouTube showing how immense that can be. Only run-of-river power plants are harmless
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  47. @ Tell me whoā€™s ordered the study and I can tell you what the conclusion is
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  48. @ itā€™s about spreading Methan and CO2 into the air which is invisible..
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  49. You sound like a Russian troll to meā€¦
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  50. The overall cost of the so called ā€œEnergiewendeā€ in Germany will be aprox. 1,3-1,4 trillion (!) Euros. And the outcome is that we lost a lot of our industry and the energy prices are at least double as high as they should be. On average >30 Cent/Kwh is normal. And itā€™s heading towards 40 Cent/Kwh. With nuclear power it would probably be around 20 Cent/ KWh
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