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Germans apparently aren’t keen on freezing in the dark, so they’ve started trashing wind turbines to expand the coal supplies that prevent that kind of misery.

There are more than 30,000 wind turbines spread across Deutschland, with thousands more off the German coast.

Notwithstanding brave talk about killing off their coal-fired power plants, made redundant by all of those thousands of whirling wonders, now it’s a case of full steam ahead. The future of German coalmines and the coal-fired power plants they fuel has never looked brighter.

As Michael Kern reports, irony comes in all shapes and sizes.

Germany Is Dismantling A Wind Farm To Make Way For A Coal Mine
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Michael Kern
26 October 2022

A wind farm is being dismantled in western Germany to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in a “paradoxical” situation highlighting the current prioritization of energy security…