DW English Video Banned in Germany Why?

[Rushrush 301]

So something weird I noticed on Twitter (aka X)

What is happening? 😱😱
Deutsche Welle (DW), the German state-owned broadcaster just dropped a 42 minute documentary casting doubt on Germany's wind & solar-driven Energiewende (energy transition), including that it could lead to blackouts: "Power failure in Germany - Horror scenario or genuine possibility?" 🍿🍿 (with English narration).

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Either there is a DW policy to geo-block ALL documentaries intended for foreign audiences (as this is an English language narration) or this documentary has been geo-blocked specifically.

Youtube LInk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52tzT09z81E&ab_channel=DWDocumentary

DW Link https://www.dw.com/en/blackout-in-germany-horror-scenario-or-genuine-possibility/video-66698616

Oddy the German version is still online.

https://www.zdf.de/verbraucher/wiso/blackout-in-deutschland--reale-gefahr-100.html

if I turn on my (free browser based) VPN it works no issue both on Youtube and DW

Google it and you'll find nothing

(link to conspiracy theory - not really but if you have a few minutes it's worth reading

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Algorithmic blanketing of independent media is reaching levels unimaginable even a year ago. Obviously the decision by Twitter/X to depress Substack links is a big factor for those on this platform, but the story’s not much different elsewhere. Subscription-based content was an effective hack of the censorship loop for a time, but new deamplification tools reduce visibility to the point where effective marketing has become difficult even if you can afford to pay for it. I would be less irritated by this had I not spent much of the last eight months seeing academic researchers and legacy news organizations snitch out alternative media to platform censors, both in Twitter emails and some recent FOIA results (another reason I’m in a bad mood today).

https://www.racket.news/p/note-to-subscribers

[Rushrush 301]

Halfway through and I can see why it got banned (assuming it was a ban) it's pretty embarrassing for the government short answer clean energy won't work unless you build dozens and dozens of gas power generating plants.

A little further in it's clear that the clean energy plan is an utter failure - high electricity prices = slow progress to clean electricity

[snowingagain 5,437]

"Oddly" I can see the DW English and German ones you link. So freaky.

[murphaph 9,843]

I'll tell you what a bigger failure is...continuing to pump millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and letting our descendents live on a planet that looks like hell, just so we don't have to pay 40c/kWh for electricity.

Renewable energy is the future. There are hurdles along the way, but gas fired power stations do NOT need to be fired with fossil gas. They can be fired with green hydrogen, generated at night by wind energy when demand for electricity is very low.

Ireland currently generates 40% of its electricity through wind and is aiming to have 37GW of offshore wind energy installed by 2050. Ireland only needs about 6GW, so what's the 31GW for then? To manufacture green hydrogen for use in peaker gas plants and for export to places like Germany that have heavy industries that need the heat that can only be provided by burning gases...but the gases do NOT have to be fossil gases. The largest flywheel in the world used for regulating a grid powered with many renewable sources of energy is currently under construction in Moneypoint, Co. Clare, Ireland. This is a legacy coal fired power station that will be completely repurposed to assemble wind turbines for assembly offshore and to manufacture green hydrogen, which will be exported from the jetty that currently takes coal deliveries.

All the bemoaners of renewables are going to lok very foolish within one generation. There are ways and means to stabilise the grid. Ireland just had its first offshore auction by the way and it was oversubscribed by major power producers, with guarantees of production prices of ca 9c/kWh.

https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/news/magazine/2022/irelands-great-grid-stabilizer.html

[tor 17,429]

It's science:

According to the U.S. Department of Energy,
430 quintillion Joules of energy from the sun hits the earth each hour;
@shushshush ... that's a lot

humans use 410 quintillion Joules a year,
and the average American household uses about 40 billion Joules of electricity.

[murphaph 9,843]

Yeah the earth is bathed in virtually limitless amounts of energy from the great fusion reactor in the sky. It's a pity we ever found easily extractable oil but in the grand scheme of life of earth it will be seen as a tiny blip of silliness that lasted a century and a half before we saw sense and stopped using the stuff for fuel. It has far more useful applications and burning these hydrocarbons to release energy when the sun provides us with more than we could ever need will be seen as odd to say the least. It'll be akin to how we view hunting whales for lamp oil or something.

Europe will go from being a continent heavily reliant on energy imports to being completely self sufficient. No more kow-towing to dictators for energy. Think about the freedom that affords us. Europe has a diverse set of climate zones too, so in the summer when the wind blows less over Ireland, the suns shines more over Spain, Italy & Greece. In winter the sun shines less there (but still anawful lot) but the wind blows stronger off the Irish and British coasts.

It's not even the future really. Ireland is hitting 40% electricity generation through wind already. There have been isolated winter days when Ireland covered ALL of its electricity demand from wind. Ireland is aiming for 80% by 2030, just over 6 years from now. This would have been unimaginable even a decade ago. Grid stabilisation is a challenge with renewables but as my link above shows, there are already technologies that allow it, that don't rely on fossil power plants.

[catjones 1,702]

Is a joule of energy a lot?
This is due to the fact that a joule is an extremely small amount of energy. To put how small a joule is into perspective, a liter of gasoline has 31,536,000 joules of energy in it. Using a single 100 W incandescent light bulb for ten hours (0.1 kW x 10 hrs = 1 kWh) would take 3,600,000 joules.

I also think that as summers in the EU get increasingly hotter and longer, more and more people will add air conditioners to their homes...driving the electricity usage closer to the US where most places are already AC'd.

[Krieg 15,072]

Yes, joule is a "small" unit of energy, but a quintillion is a very very big number (a 1 with 18 zeros).

Convert 1 quintillion joules to Gigawatts and you will see ... it should be something around 277000 ...

[MadAxeMurderer 6,294]

Well actually a joule is 6,242e+18 eV (electron Volts) or about 6 quintillion eV
So a joule must be yuge?

A joule is actually 1 watt for 1 second. A 2kw kettle running for 2 minutes will consume 240000 joules. or 1/4 Mj

eV are used the describe the energy of individual sub atomic particles, or the energy released in nuclear reactions.
The pp fusion reaction in the sun releases 1.442 MeV.

[Krieg 15,072]

I should have said Gigawatt hour above.