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Germany Energiewende in numbers.
After more than 500 billion subsidies and 20 plus years, how does the German Energiewende work?
Let’s look at some numbers. First let’s compare Germany in 2025 to itself in year 2000.
Year 2000
Total electricity generation: 576-577 TWh
Residential (household) electricity price: 0.14–0.16 €/kWh
Industry price: 0.08 €/kWh
Year 2025
Total generation: around 501 TWh, including self generation.
Residential (household) price: 0.3835 €/kWh
Industry price: 0.15-0.25 €/kWh
So after 25 years of energy transition, there is 13% less electricity generation, while the price has more than doubled for both residential and industrial users. No wonder the German industry base is shrinking.
Now let’s look at carbon emission per KWh electricity generation, after all, to reduce carbon emission is the stated goal of Energiewende. The numbers of France, Germany and EU average tells you the reality the German media normally does not report on.
France: ~30 gCO₂eq/kWh
Germany: ~330 gCO₂eq/kWh
France's grid is about 10 times cleaner than Germany's on average. Not only that, Germans intensity is higher than the EU average (~200–220 g/kWh in recent years) due to remaining coal use,
Energiewende is a total complete failure, on both economics and its stated environmental goal. Numbers don’t lie.
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Stort tack till 42:a HV Göteborg för er medverkan. Eldstrid i datahall bör förstås undvikas... Men det här var ett riktigt bra tillfälle att låta Försvaret öva i skarpt civilt objekt! Följ bygget bahnhofbunker.se
Operatören Bahnhof@BahnhofAB
Ett okänt antal beväpnade män bryter sig in i datacentret Bahnhof Bunker. Övervakningskameror och elförsörjningen slås ut. Ja, så skulle inledningen på ett skymningsläge kunna se ut. Och precis det scenariot övade Försvarsmakten i Bahnhof Bunker. bahnhof.se/2026/03/11/for…
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Russia lost the “battle for winter.” And we won.
The first day of spring. The daylight is getting longer. It’s getting warmer. Ukraine continues the fight.
On the front line, for the first time in many months - perhaps even years - we have begun liberating more territory than we are losing.
Thank you to those who are holding the line.
Thank you to the air defense forces.
To the energy workers.
To the utility workers.
To local and central authorities.
And to each of us - for our resilience.
Ukraine has won the battle for winter.
Author: translated and adapted from Taras Chmut

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Kan inte bara den här fullkomligt hopplösa myndigheten bli av med licenshanteringen omedelbart...
Det är helt tröstlöst att försöka vara laglydig som vapenägare när Polisstatsmyndigheten kan ändra reglerna som de vill...
Pia Clerté@PiaClerte
Över en natt gör Polismyndigheten tusentals vapenägare till brottslingar, utan att ha informerat dem om det? Nedre beslag blir licenspliktiga från 2 mars, genom ny bedömning från myndighetens sida — för att en utredare 2022 ansåg att det skulle tolkas så. Får det gå till så här?
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You can see in the picture a border guard who, exactly four years ago (February 24, 2022, at 3:45 a.m. Romanian/Ukrainian time), is recognized as one of the first Ukrainians to see the russian army invading Ukraine. He and three other border guards were killed immediately after these scenes were captured on surveillance cameras. Location: Kalanchack crossing point, Kherson Oblast.
Since then, the world has changed radically because of this war. Somewhere around 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed. Estimates of civilian casualties run into the tens of thousands if we add the massacre in Mariupol, which we can only estimate from images seen from space showing huge mass graves. Thousands of rapes against Ukrainian women, children, and men. Over 20,000 children have been kidnapped from their families in Ukraine and deported to russia. Ten million (read that again) people have been forced to leave their homes. Tens of millions of lives changed, broken, destroyed. Thousands of heroes became martyrs. But hundreds of thousands of ordinary people became heroes.
I could tell you volumes about this war. We could talk at length about where we were on that infamous day that will forever remain in history. But after four years of war, the most important thing is that Ukraine is still standing.
This is the most important thing from a moral and justice perspective. Morally, from the perspective of good and evil, of victim and aggressor, it is extraordinarily important that good has not been brought to its knees. The terrible evil embodied by Putin and russia has not succeeded in bringing the Ukrainian people to their knees.
Today, exactly four years later, most of russia's disinformation campaigns focus on the idea that russia is invincible and relentless in its path to victory. This is a lie. Nothing could be further from the truth. With the help of Europe, (in the first two years) the US and the Coalition of the Willing, Ukraine has resisted. The Ukrainian people have achieved this success that no one would have thought possible. They did so with the sacrifices mentioned above. And they continue to do so. A few days ago, I said that we should not expect peace in 2026, and I firmly maintain my opinion.
Today, analyzing Europe's reaction (regardless of Hungary's blockade of the 90 billion aid package),
Ukraine's will and courage, and the capabilities and capacities of Ukrainians and russians, I can say with conviction that, barring a betrayal that would cause us all to change our opinion of any rule of common sense that governs this world, Ukraine will withstand this year as well.
russia will NOT prevail!
And if Europe and the allies in the Coalition of the Willing are willing to show political will, the fate of the war—which russia so desperately wants to paint as sealed with its victory—will change in Ukraine's favor. And I really hope that happens.
To repair the initial injustice of 2014 and four years ago and all the injustices and wrongs that have occurred since then. So that we, not just Ukrainians, can regain our confidence that good really does triumph.
It is possible!
I continue to believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the Ukrainian people, and I hope that in the end I will be able to say that I am truly proud of the European family to which we all belong!
Until then, I will support Ukraine, its cause, and that of those like me. Like us. Because it is right. Because it is moral. Because it is just!
Slava Ukraini!

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Biggest US military buildup since the 2003 Iraq war
Open Source Intel@Osint613
Non stop tankers on the move, absolutely nuts.
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“Russia has returned to its demand for legally binding guarantees that NATO will not expand eastward.”
Well, there it is -- exactly what we’ve been talking about.
Now it’s no longer enough for them to get Ukraine’s surrender and occupation, which they have failed to achieve over years of full-scale war. Now they want this.
And then, SUDDENLY it will turn out that the real condition for “peace” was always the December 2021 ultimatum to the United States and NATO -- demanding the rollback of collective defense across the entire territory of the former Warsaw Pact in Europe.
And then it will turn out that “peace” requires the return of “historically Russian lands” to their “native harbor” -- the Baltic states, Poland, Finland. After all, they were part of the Russian Empire just over 100 years ago! You do want peace, don’t you?
And so on, and so on.
Appeasing an aggressor DOES NOT WORK, for fuck's sake. It did not work with Hitler in 1938, and it is not working with Putin now.
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”Mer vind löser topplast” - direkt ur önskedrömmarnas rike
Den här typen av analyser dyker upp varje gång kärnkraft diskuteras.
De ser tekniska ut, är fulla av tabeller och TWh - men de är byggda för propaganda, inte för att beskriva hur ett elsystem faktiskt fungerar.
Låt oss reda ut vad som utelämnas.
1. Man blandar energi (TWh) med effekt (MW)
Sveriges problem är inte årsproduktion. Vi har gott om energi. Problemet är effektbrist under de kallaste vintertimmarna.
Elkriser uppstår inte för att vi saknar TWh över året - utan för att vi saknar garanterad effekt exakt när den behövs.
Vindkraft är inte reglerbar. Den kan inte leverera på beställning. Under högtryck och kyla - exakt när topplasten inträffar - är vinden ofta låg, ibland i långa perioder. Detta är välkänt, särskilt i norra Sverige.
2. Produktionssiffrorna är överdrivna i kallt klimat
Bor man i norr vet man:
- Kyla innebär ofta lite vind
- Isbildning reducerar produktionen kraftigt
- Lågvindsperioder kan vara långvariga
I praktiken producerar vindkraft mindre än kalkylerna säger, just när den behövs som mest.
Havsbaserad vind står dessutom stilla betydande delar av året på grund av väder och åtkomst.
3. Livslängd: den stora elefanten i rummet
Ett vindkraftverk har i praktiken 20-25 års livslängd.
Ett kärnkraftverk är byggt för 60 år eller mer.
Det betyder att vindkraften måste:
- återinvesteras
- byggas om
- eller ersättas
■ 2-3 gånger under samma tidshorisont som ett kärnkraftverk.
Den ”billiga” investeringen är bara första notan.
4. Systemkostnaderna räknas bort medvetet
Vindkraft kräver ett helt stödsystem:
● förstärkt elnät
● balans- och effektreserver
● stödtjänster
● import eller fossil reservkraft när vinden uteblir
Dessa kostnader hamnar inte i vindkraftens kalkyl, men de betalas ändå - av konsumenter och skattebetalare.
5. Man låtsas att opålitlighet inte har ett pris
Ett elsystem där produktionen inte kan kontrolleras leder till:
● extrema elpriser
● industristopp
● minskad investeringstrygghet
För ägaren är vindkraften beroende av stöd.
För konsumenten är den ett lotteri.
Ja, ny kärnkraft är dyr och långsam.
Men att ersätta den med vindkraft i topplastdiskussionen är ren illusion.
Vindkraft levererar TWh när vädret tillåter.
Sverige behöver MW när verkligheten kräver det.
Att låtsas något annat är inte analys - det är energipolitisk teater.
#svpolitik #politik #ideologiskaillusioner
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Efter att ha ägt gården i 11 generationer så 2017 slutade vi köpa in ungdjur, och de sista djuren gick till slakt 2018. På grund av olönsamheten. Detta efter att i nästan tio år bara gått plus/minus noll, men för att vi hade svårt att släppa livsstilen det innebär att ha småbruk
Snyggbonde™@snyggbonde
Köttbristen är en feature, inte en bug.
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Alla med månadslön på över 39.000 kr ska tvingas betala statlig inkomstskatt (50%) med S nya skatteförslag.
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