Germany finds itself in a fix. Freeze or burn coal. Just as many countries who cannot provide enough nat gas to fuel its economy and homes. Those who have natural energy resources are the winner. Those who do also need to use common sense and appreciate what they have.
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 over clean energy in Europe’s biggest economy.
The dismantling of at least one wind turbine at the wind farm close to the German coal mine Garzweiler, operated by energy giant RWE, has already started. RWE says that li
ignite, or brown coal, has been mined from the Garzweiler coalfields for over 100 years.
RWE also said at the end of September that three of its lignite-fired coal…
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