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2. It does seem to me in recent weeks that German Industry is facing idling some plants because...
Wed Jun 29, 2022, 10:07 PM
Jun 2022

...of lack of access to electricity. This seems to be the tenor of some reports I've read beyond those in the OP.

It is true that German industry was free from the cost of so called "renewable energy" for a long time, but now, with their Russian pals cutting them off, that's less true than before.

They'd better hope the wind blows heavily all summer, particularly in an age of extreme heat.

They've chosen a very dangerous course economically and frankly physically.

The real cost, the external cost, of the German energy policy leading to coal combustion will fall on all humanity.

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