On February 1, 2023, the Wind Energy Area Requirements Act came into force in Germany.
With this law, the federal government obliges the federal states to designate a certain percentage of
their land area for wind energy by the end of 2032.
For the city states of Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen, the proportion is 0.5 percent of the area.
For the other countries between 1.8 percent and 2.2 percent.
In Bavaria alone, this amounts to around 1, 270 square kilometers for wind turbines -
an area half the size of Saarland.
In order to achieve this goal, the Federal Government has amended the Federal Nature Conservation Act so
that even landscape conservation areas can now be used.
Wind energy is an almost inexhaustible source of energy, the potential of which has only been exhausted in fragments today.
This is how the proponents of the energy transition always describe it.
Of course, the aim is also to combat climate change, as this technology would not produce any CO2.
As is so often the case, only what comes out at the end is taken into account or presented in a
media-effective way, but not what has to be spent on it.
This essentially relates to the following areas.
1. environmental pollution
The term environmental policy was coined around 1970 and refers to all political efforts to preserve
the natural foundations of human life and nature.
The wind turbines are supposedly also being built to protect the environment.
But are they really a blessing for the environment?
1a) Deforestation
In the past, the biggest enemies of the forest were drought, storms and bark beetles.
But now wind turbines must also be included.
In Reinhardswald in Hesse, for example, 29 hectares of forest with trees up to 195 years
old may be cleared for 18 planned wind turbines.
Afterwards, the forest can no longer be realized as a forest, but rather as an industrial plant with a tree connection.
The large aisles that are cut into the forest create more edges.
Trees standing in such places can die because they are much more exposed to wind and drought,
which leads to such aisles spreading further.
Although parts are reforested after the wind turbines are built, it takes many decades for
nature to restore a healthy, humus-rich forest floor.
1 b) Resource consumption
The construction of a wind turbine requires not only the mast and rotor, but also a well-developed
road network for transporting the wind turbine parts.
To ensure that the whole thing remains standing, it also needs a stable foundation.
We can see what is needed for this at the Altdorfer Wald wind farm.
Here, 39 wind turbines with a height of 285 meters are to be erected.
These objects are more than five times as high as an average church tower.
This requires a foundation with a volume of 1500 cubic meters.
In the case of the Altdorf forest, a total of 58,500 cubic meters of concrete are required for 39 wind turbines.
In order to deliver this concrete, mobile concrete mixers have to make 15,600 trips for 7.5 cubic meters
In addition, over 45,000 trips by gravel trucks are needed to transport the gravel for the
expansion of the 27-kilometer stretch of road.
1c) Changes in flora and fauna
Thousands of bats and birds fall victim to wind turbines every year.
According to projections, there are more than 200,000 bats in Germany alone each year, which is why some
bat species are already threatened in their populations.
The danger for the animals is not just that they fly against the rotor blades.
The drop in pressure behind the rotor blades causes the animals' lungs and internal organs to burst.
In 2017, the German Aerospace Center determined in a study based on model calculations that around 1,200
billion insects fall victim to wind turbines every year.
That's about 3 billion insects per day.
The remains of flying insects on rotor blades also contribute to higher losses in turbine efficiency.
It is not only a threat to animal populations, but also to the landscape.
In some places, trees are cut down on slopes, which subsequently increases the risk of soil erosion and landslides.
1 d) Contaminated sites
Wind turbines are currently designed for a service life of 20 years.
The entire system would then have to be dismantled and disposed of.
However, it is more than questionable whether the concrete foundations will actually be dismantled in any case.
There is still no concept for recycling the wings due to the toxins and composite materials they contain,
which is why this problematic waste has to be disposed of.
The rotor blades alone produce 20,000 tons of waste every year. And the trend is rising.
Interim conclusion
The Green Party once stood up to protect the environment.
In the meantime, however, they have arrived at the destruction of the environment.
While construction projects were halted due to the presence of a beetle, the Nature Conservation Act was even amended
for wind turbines so that many bird species, such as storks, no longer count as species endangered by wind power.
According to a legal opinion commissioned by the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), this
even violated current EU law on species protection.
This technology is also not resource-friendly if it is only designed for such a short time and then leaves
behind substances whose disposal has not yet been clarified.
More attention is now being paid to ideological goals than to environmental protection.
2. climatic changes
Germany alone currently has 32,000 wind turbines in operation.
This has led to a 13% reduction in average wind speed over the last 20 years, as the University of Osnabrück has determined.
This is not without consequences.
2a) Changed air circulation
In the USA, 2.5 times as much wind energy is generated as in Germany.
These serious interventions could dramatically reduce the air currents from the equator to the North Pole, which would
result in a lowering of the jet stream in southern latitudes.
This would allow a thinning of the air layers over the North Pole, which would result in
lower reflection and thus warming of the region.
2b) Drying out of the soil
The interaction between wind turbines and air layers has a decisive influence on heat and
moisture flows between the surface and the atmosphere.
The air flow is slowed down in front of the wind turbines and swirled behind them.
At every large wind farm, moisture is extracted from the atmosphere, especially in
summer, and the ground is additionally warmed.
A recent study from China shows the devastating consequences wind farms have for their surroundings.
The effects of a Chinese wind farm on the border with Mongolia were investigated.
It was found that soil moisture was reduced by 4.1% per year.
The complicated mechanisms are not yet fully understood, but it is certain that the wind farms effectively
lead to the soil on which they are built drying out.
In the worst case, it can lead to droughts and soil erosion, which can also spread to the wider periphery.
Interim conclusion
The use of wind energy is being promoted in order to counteract the climate change allegedly caused by CO2.
The drying out of the soil in particular is presented to us in striking and apocalyptic
images as a consequence of climate change.
However, current studies show that wind turbines in particular can lead to drought.
3. damage to health
Wind turbines can cause a variety of health problems such as concentration disorders,
nervousness, headaches and sleep disorders.
The main dangers are infrasound and shadow flicker.
In winter, however, there is also the danger of ice.
3a) Ice
In unfavorable weather conditions, ice may form on the rotor blades.
Then there is even a danger to life.
The rotor blades can propel chunks of ice over long distances.
3b) Infrasound
Infrasound is sound whose frequency is below the human hearing range, i.e. below 16 Hertz.
Some people who live near wind turbines report symptoms such as tiredness, depression or even seasickness.
Cardiac surgeon Christian Friedrich Fahl has scientifically investigated the phenomenon as head of the
infrasound working group at Mainz University Hospital.
According to him, this occurs when the rotor blade runs along the mast, compressing the air and creating short, steep pulses.
In the great outdoors, infrasound also turns up the volume.
It is perceived as noise, but is not pulsed.
The impulses that occur here can also be felt physically.
It is comparable to a visitor standing in front of the bass speakers at a rock concert and physically perceiving the sound.
However, the pulses generated by a wind turbine are much more massive.
3c) Drop shadow
The operation of wind turbines causes a moving shadow when the sun is shining, which can also lead to considerable
annoyance for those affected, such as concentration problems, nervousness, headaches and sleep disorders.
The shadows cast by the rotor are unpleasant for many people, as they cause periodic fluctuations in brightness.
According to the Federal/State Working Group on Emission Control, when approving wind turbines, it must be ensured that the
theoretically possible shading time of a house of 30 hours per calendar year or 30 minutes per day is not exceeded.
If necessary, switch-off technology must be used to ensure that the actual duration of shadow impact is
limited to 8 hours per calendar year and 30 minutes per day.
If a house is exposed to the shadow of several wind turbines, the values apply to all turbines together.
Interim conclusion
For ordinary citizens, the polluter pays principle always applies.
Shouldn't this also apply to the operators of wind turbines?
Because if such a plant demonstrably leads to health problems in the population, the plant would have to be shut
down, regardless of whether a specified number of hours of exposure has been reached or not.
This raises the question of why these installations are approved at all.
4. the energy transition is becoming unaffordable
4a) Actual output of wind turbines
The operators guard the capacity utilization of their wind farms like a state secret.
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung examined 18,000 wind turbines in Germany - with sobering results.
Almost a quarter of the systems examined did not even have a capacity factor of 20%.
Only 15% of the facilities had an estimated capacity utilization of more than 30%.
Almost all of these are located near the coast.
4b) Loss account paid by consumers
At the end of January 2024, the four electricity grid operators presented the bill for what wind and solar power will cost us.
The expansion of wind and solar power plants means that more electricity is produced than
required in strong winds or strong sunshine.
As a result, electricity prices on the exchange fall towards zero or even into negative territory, so
that additional money has to be paid for the purchase.
Nevertheless, wind turbine operators receive 7.35 cents per kilowatt hour in guaranteed feed-in tariffs.
Solar system operators even pay 11 to 13 cents per kilowatt hour.
More and more frequently, turbines even have to be shut down when wind production is excessive so
that not too much electricity ends up in the system.
But even when there is a standstill, the money flows as if the operators had produced the electricity.
This cost consumers around one billion euros in 2022 without them receiving anything in return.
4c) Grid expansion costs
Due to the wind conditions, most wind farms are located in northern Germany.
However, in order to bring the electricity to the industrial sites in Bavaria and
Baden-Württemberg, the electricity grid must also be expanded.
The necessary expansion of the high-voltage lines is expected to cost 300 billion euros by 2045 and a further 150 billion
euros for the distribution grids in cities and municipalities.
For the promotion of wind farm expansion in the low-wind southern region, a correction factor of 50% to 60%
percent was provided for this region in the EEG Act 2023.
This means that further subsidies are being provided for wind power because it is not economically viable to operate
wind turbines with the existing subsidies in southern Germany.
Interim conclusion
Wind farms are not efficient for a business location like Germany.
Without subsidies from ideologically driven politicians, hardly any investors would invest in this technology,
as such plants would not be able to hold their own on the market under competitive conditions.
The electricity produced is becoming more and more unaffordable for consumers due to these framework conditions.
Private individuals will lose their standard of living and businesses will increasingly move abroad.
Economics Minister Robert Habeck would say: In Germany, industry won't be insolvent, it will just stop producing.
Conclusion
Wind energy is always presented to us as a form of energy that is particularly environmentally friendly and climate-friendly.
However, as we can see, neither is the case.
On the other hand, it is an unreliable way of generating energy and is also particularly expensive for the consumer.
But why is it still being promoted and who has an interest in it?
A plausible answer to this question could be the following.
You will own nothing and be happy, is a sentence from a 2016 World Economic Forum (WEF) video that
summarizes an essay by Danish politician Ida Auken.
Ida Auken is part of the WEF's Young Global Leader Program.
That would be ideal for the WEF and its backers.
Everything that someone needs is received as a service.
On the one hand, this service would be good business, and on the other, everyone would become a completely transparent citizen.
To achieve this, existing structures in the economy and the population would first have to be dismantled and a plan would
be needed to do this without resistance from the population.
It would be conceivable that all goods would become more expensive so that the population would no longer be able to
make a living and would have to use up all their reserves.
Energy costs are priced into most goods because they are necessary for the production of the goods.
The price of electricity would therefore be one way of adjusting the price of goods.
The nuclear power plants have been shut down and the sanctions against Russia mean we can no longer get cheap natural gas.
As a result, the cheapest options for generating electricity have disappeared.
Electricity from wind power is either available in abundance and the price on the electricity exchange is close to
zero or the wind blows too little and the electricity has to be bought from abroad at a high price.
This drives up the price of electricity and thus the price of the goods produced.
In the long term, companies could not survive in such an environment.
They either stop producing altogether or emigrate.
What remains is a population with a high unemployment rate that is no longer able to make a living due to high energy costs.
The WEF and its backers would then have reached their goal.
A population that is at the mercy of the elites and willingly submits.