Germany’s Renewable Energy Revolution
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Germany Trade & Invest presents its short film about Germany’s Renewable Energy Revolution, the so called Energiewende (energy transition).
Voices from science, industry, and politics outline the achievements made so far, next steps, and the opportunities the energy transition offers.
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Germany won't have any birds left with all the wind mills. This is a total rip off of customers. This is NOT the way to get off fuels… My concept could get 3 cent/kw-hr with solar thermal and the engine. When the sun does not shine it can run off thermal store or Natural Gas at 6 cent/ kw-hr. 80% solar, store 10-15%, fuel 5-10% depending on captialization. Germans (Ich Kann Deutsch) like to make things so complicated and expensive. I saw this at Porsche, Mercedes and VW. Oh well, waste your money. Your citizens are being ripped off by the trillions…. shame on you.
How to get 95% of the energy gone…ASAP. Make engine that is 60% that can run on fuels, Natural Gas AND battery without electric motors. No hybrids… That engine can enable boundary layer drag reduction that can cut drag by 50% or more. For example. Tesla now gets 100 mpg e. Make new car that is 1/2 the weight and 1/2 rd the drag…200 mpge. That is 10 times more than a car now gets. City will be twice (400 mpg) if it maintains efficiency like the Tesla does. On natural gas at $1/gal that is around 1/2 cent/mile. In contrast, electricity in Germany is 30 cents/kw-hr or $10/gallon e. 10 x 2 is 20 times less to travel via my new car with new engine. When batteries drop in weight and increase in power density, then they can be used to power the car for short trips, thus using mostly renewables. People will buy this as they won't have range issues and can get Natural Gas from house. The engine pumps the gas. Why pay 20 times more when you can have it much sooner? Politics? Oh, I forgot, the well connected have to fund their jets. Sorry, go back to sleep….
Thanks to asshole Trump he wants to drag us backwards.
Wind power is the biggest scam ever lol not to mention the environmental disaster.
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Renewable energy for running the all automated factory and even everything
Weather of renewable energy.
Rain of Water…Drainage sewer Energy….
Windy of Fan energy
Hot summer of lights…Solar energy.
Snow is melting by water…..
Heater of roads.
Congratulations to the willpower and determination of German ingenuity! Germany is truly the land of ideas. However, let's not get carried away with such idealism. The reality is that Germany, similar to Japan, is only able to invest heavily in renewable sources of energy because it spends much less on maintaining a military budget, although it isn't exactly zero. It is America that effectively protects countries like Germany and Japan with its large military footprint on their soil, both of which are top world economies and investing in clean energy. Germany, similar to Japan, is also an aging society. Notice we barely see any younger "millennials" in this video, only older folks. The point here is that a society should not lose sight of natural processes, as it tries to manipulate nature for its own benefit. If Germany continues to take advantage of America's protection, then there will definitely come a day when the American Empire will collapse, taking along with it German innovation in the civilian realm, because at that point, Germany will need to heavily spend on building up its defense and military expenditure and deviate from renewable energy technology. Furthermore, Germans are some of the oldest people on Earth with a really low birthrate. If both trends continue, how will Germany continue to innovate, unless of course they open their borders to immigration? See how this conversation is already becoming politicized, as is the case in present-day Trump's America? I respect Germany very much, this country is a leader of the world in many aspects of civilization! But the reality is that the European Union is already showing signs of fragmentation, and once the American Empire recedes from the European continent, not to mention the Euro being a threat to the hegemony of the US Dollar and the uncertain future of NATO, Germans will need to reevaluate their priorities. The American people elected Trump out of frustration and disappointment in their own government, because they view their own country as serving the interests of other nations before its own citizens. It's difficult to predict the future, but the American-led world order is quickly coming to an end in our multi-polar world in the 21st century.
Hier wird Deutschland dargestellt als ob es die gruene Oase der Welt waere. Deutschland mit seiner kriminellen Auto und Chemieindustrie sind einer der schlimmsten Umweltsuender der Welt. Warum gibt es immer noch keinen Wasserstoffmotor? Die Technik ist laengst entwickelt und im Einsatz. Anstatt diese Windparks in Naturschutzgebieten.
congratulations PROPAGANDA
As impregnable as Neil deGrasse Tyson is to green-energy facts, so are most environmentalists. Germany & Spain: Exhibits A & B in the undeniably unsustainable viability of "green energy" (http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/10/germany-votes-to-abandon-most-green-energy-subsidies/; http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/finance/2011/november/spains-green-disaster-a-lesson-for-america/?mobile=false) .
and still, here in Germany, they still use Diesel…
Yeah we Germans love renewable energy. It's great as long as the energy pipelines, turbines and solar fields aren't built where we live. Each time a plan is drawn up local communities protest.
Love that blue Ampera at 5:51.
If you idea of renewable energy is using coal, natural gas, oil, and trees to generate electricity while everybody thinks wind and solar are renewable, i think you should consider to fuck yourself.
You should also know that at peak times when the air turbines in the nord of germany produce above-average amount of electricity (in windy periods), the transmission network is incapable of handling it and the electricity is then adversly affecting the transmission network in the Czech republic as the electricity is rolling over it's network infrastucture which (may) cause blackouts and requires very costly counter-measures that Germany doesn't seem to care about at all.
Germany is amazing
Wish they had an office in pakistan too.
America and its addiction to oil will doom it ….
Save Our Planet.
Get rid of coal at last! This is the only way you / we can reach the goals for 2030.
Germany runs on coal.
reason why germany always leading in technology is because germany produce less politician and produce more inventor ,engineering and profesional, not like us in indonesia, we produce so much politician instead of profesional people… love germany, respect from indonesia…
Lol i can download more porns energy efficent!
Now that a couple of years have passed, this piece of techno-blather can be put into perspective. Germany's renewables stagnated in 2016:
https://energytransition.org/2017/01/renewable-energy-production-stagnates-in-germany-in-2016/
There s a pie chart of total German energy consumption that is particularly sobering. Wind and solar are at 2.1% and 1.2%, respectively!
The comments attached to this video frequently mention energy utilization behavior in the United States. As an American, allow me to suggest that an impoirtant idea for improving energy usage behavior is to talk about all energy quantities in the same units of measure, either British Thermal Units (Btu) of else Joules. In the U.S. we refer to gallons of gasoline, cubic feet of natural gas, and kilowatt hours of electricity. These units do not invite easy comparison. Each fiscal year I personally convert my energy purchases into Btu's. Thus, in 2016 I purchased 80,000,000 Btu's of natural gas, 8,800,000 Btu's of electricity, and 19,800,000 Btu's of gasoline. The cost per million Btu's varied like this: $8.43 for natural gas, $51.80 for electricity, and $18.33 for gasoline. This shows that electricity has an energy cost of 6.1 times that of natural gas. Ratios like this can be very helpful to energy-conscious individuals trying to sort out purchase information. Ratios like this are masked over by cliches like "energy efficient". Using this approach a person can get shocking ideas about the cost of energy from some sources like AAA batteries which provide energy at a cost of about $800 per kilowatt, or coin cells that provide energy at a cost of $1500 per kilowatt. I am proposing that using the same unit of measure (from physics) for energy sources would be a way to drastically improve human energy consumption behavior. Perhaps the Germans could initiate this approach as it would be consistent with their national energy policies. Thank you for the interesting video!
Germany for the win !
It's a great pity that the UK government can't bring itself to admit the advantages of renewable power. Too many vested interests, methinks. Too many MPs have shares or directorships in coal companies or other fossil-fuel enterprises. It's all rather sad.
And it failed hard! Germany is going down with their step back in electricity production! People are cut off the electricity grid because their electricity bill never was this high! They can't pay it anymore! Very sad!.
The german government is backpadelling now though. Such a shame.
a good thing domocrates have made made
google "german solar failure"
Germany has the highest cost of energy in the world..
America and Switzerland thanks you Germany ??
Germany is inspiring.
Converting water to gas is very inefficient.That alone takes double the amount of energy needed to run A reliable grid.Same as batteries.
Amazing country!
Meanwhile America over here like "OIL PIPELINES FUCK WATER"
Germany has one of the highest cost electricity in the world………………..Which is killing energy intensive German industries, and those industries are headed to the USA……………Thank you Germany….:)
Take notice of how Germany didn't significantly reduce its coal consumption, aiming instead at abolishing nuclear energy. In the end I'd say they didn't do much in twenty years except maintain the status quo in terms of greenhouse gas production by replacing nuclear with renewables. It's one thing to not build new nuclear plants, but it's quite another to shut down already operating reactors which are producing cheap and clean energy… the investment had already been made. Germany should have kept those reactors running until they reached the end of their operational life and instead aimed to replace coal with renewables.
I love this!
thats weird its only a short time ago your energy policy run by peter Moeller was in tatters, all spin, total spin
I'm currently doing a paper on the profitability and history of the German Energy Revolution, does anyone have a sort of timetable or source that outlines this progress? It'd be greatly appreciated!
this is bullshit, just check wikipedia for a second, please, germany runs on coal, this is just ads
Loving that guy's suit @ 7:50
Srsly Germany is afriad of nuclear power plants but stil France next door has 19 active nuclear plants… other countries around germany has it aswell. Germany is fucked if anything happens with those. its so silly. nuclear is needed for the enviroment NOW. its to late to stil use coal. In fact Germany is one of the worst poluters in Europe.. dont be to proud germans.