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the, the power is out on the country. it's a black house, like, oh this, it was a little the blackouts are serious. we hope they never happened, but they could my thought, the income, the, it's a blackout house for lunch. you are you for a long time, more and more people in germany, fee of this, alexander holland, housing has noticed that he sells backup generations. demand has been growing. and not just since the start of the war and ukraine, the actual light. it's why i'm going to states in the past 2 years. this has been increasing steadily,

something like that in the past few months. it's going up shop late on the growth of more than a 100 percent. and the demand is definitely the compared to the previous. it's going up by more than 100 percent depend, which the who are the people that are worried about such horace scenarios. so is that that's preparing for a complete collapse the electricity supply via christine tops into all these all into niema. we've got the dentist, the veterinarian and company. oh no. so a cross section of society, but it was the people who are simply worried, this suffering now under the energy transition. that's what i want to be equivalent . cool. and then there are also very special custom is i want to make a secret of it. i don't even want to be ready for any eventuality. that's quite well. it's really just normal. people like us got some of them in the is calling houses, customers spend about 3000 euros on average for the generation. that's a lot of money for back up in case of

a policy. yep. and as the less harling housing can barely keep up with the sales guy, similar to how can i help you? when would you like to run an emergency power for the evening? when does more than what else is fine, then 2 or 3 features. that's all central, right? so you want an emergency power supply for the house along. exactly. so for when food in the store, when, where it comes to worst, when the lights go out, i can still hear you say those 2 items. i haven't got a bit of blackout anxiety longer manage those locals and thousands of times use i'd like to be independent. i don't have confidence in the government's energy policies anymore. calling housing has calls like these all the time. yeah. as a physically. so what else do you like to know police? yes, it's really true. people are afraid that the energy transition will lead to shortages in power supply letter. the policies are leading to major, uncertain, painful, given that people want to protect themselves on the edge of henry mosley starting

off. obviously. yon hagan that is economist activist. the 43 year old i t specialist is even made a jo about his passion. he's got his own climate blog. he doesn't see blackouts as a risk in stage. it's all about climate change. that he said, we want to achieve germany. time it targets. we really need to move and expand renewables right away and advance all the technologies you need. so everything is electric and we don't use electricity for today. we still ban gas oil and code if i put in making the energy transition a priority. but despite the new government things and not moving fast enough, here you can big is the, it's clearly in the right direction. but if i could make a wish, i'd still say everything twice as possible, twice as much with twice the motivation. which of yes, how old shaw says a completely different view points? the professor of energy distribution and high voltage technology and called post

says relying on renewables alone is roll the sun, for example, comp, supply electricity. without interruption, he says, furnace should supply social tags. so p v for sure, what we control must, if he is 0 and i because it's dark during the day in winter, it's mainly dark. that means p b as in a short output of 0 percent with an a should output means energy generation by civil power plants, which is nearly always available. coal nuclear and gas find power plants above food and hydro electric sources provide a high level of assured output, wind energy, and photovoltaics by contrast, have no assured output. i can't establish a secure supply with that. there are lots of when the days i can use that, but then there are calm days. and the question then is always, what do i do? i can build windham p v as long as i want do, but a short output times of 0 percent to one present. as you know nothing. the scientist says it's clear when there's something known as

a don't cool slow so. so no lice or wind, then supplying electricity gets problematic. it's been said, these are believe that the flow of the home want to keep this las lice. but once you've got this renown, don't go flowed to. there's neither p v nor winds generation. that's all you want them to get and if you take away all the conventional power generation like nuclear link, 90 hard cold, and then there's nothing left for germany to supply itself with power from domestic sources. always suppose all the protocols allowed in the times when there's no sun, the wind speeds. so the biggest threat to power generation, netflix not scare tactics, realities between 20152020 alone. there was 3 phases in which renewable energy supply less than 20 percent of what it

was supposed to. and that for more than 200 hours, it's a time. that's more than 8 days. body of comfort and energy economist at the gym and is to treat the economic research says the threats is red and manageable. they have on said we've taken a really close look at the scenario. there are 2 weeks in january when that kind of tough with this little solar and wind energy, and you've got to prepare for that problem in energy terminology. we call those like flexibility options. the system has really high fluctuations here, and it's not analog, but digital and a very small, some very flexible, and it works to get an o. a digital smash flexible electric power system. that sounds good, but we have one already escapes. now it doesn't exist yet. you know, we need to invest and it sets up the system quickly. so we always have supply securities alongside the money to get to the point you could say,

which is if you've decided to jump out of an airplane, and on the way down, you all start to discuss how you're going to make the power shoot you and you've got the material and ideas and on the weight down you keep telling yourselves up to now it has always been fine and everything is okay. that goes well for a while. the in the control center, the transmission system operation, i'm pre owned. they try to keep the network stable. that only works when power generation and consumption always exactly the same level. otherwise, in the worst case, a blackout logic. before the energy transition, it was simple. fossil fuels fired power plants always deliver the exact, the amount of energy consumed. today, wind turbines and solar modules provide energy to that makes it more complicated

because sometimes there's wind and sunshine. and sometimes there is that it was frequency drops if renewables like wind in solar and that you have a low for network operate and then has to bring conventional power plants online to restore the balance. but it is a gale blowing on the coast. then the break frequency control has dangerously, it's in dallas, the operation would have the wind turbine stopped. fluctuation of net was frequency must be minimized. otherwise, the net was collapse for it in a given the long use. what's you wouldn't be follow the energy transition. the situations could be timed back to meaning generation was oriented precisely the consumption of the vehicle. the whole thing has become the final complex involved a time since the energy transition. the network situation change is much more frequently in the meantime, several daily interventions to guarantee network security, the become almost routine and sort of analyze intervention also means firing up

conventional power plants. the more or more of these power produces for the shoot out portions supposed to be shut down soon. ready quite a longer don't close slash and then perhaps lead to a blackout. says yes, it isn't a complete. that's a complex question. that's not so easy to. and so with the cast, the sentence of college, all bands transmission system operators isn't a guarantee and ensure security of supplying that the task of the ministry of economics within the federal network agency, although it's not up to the transmission system operate um, but of calls will point out developments and undesirable try and become open in space within its way continually speaking with the transmission of system operators and that's a conservative sector by the transition system operate is job has always been able

to back up and to have a safety level. and another off to that and said in that respect and the mindset of many people in the world network tends to be very security oriented as either. but the former junior economics minister knows the without conventional power plants, secure energy supplies could become skids in there. that's why, by 2030 web building additional natural gas, 5 health plans to guarantee secure supplies, even without coal fired plants. and we'll achieve that because we go to precise audio and talk to the providers. and just with you, how many you get fund power plants would have to be built quickly? now, a number of analyses have shown that it is, in fact, between 23 and 43 gigawatts of output. that's dozens of new gas fired power plants. so at any rate who's going to build them and what kind of gas will be used to operate them?

the head of the german central association of the energy and also industry and form a green politician says all those problems a solvable escape guns, entrance even just because they're all very intensive discussions with no way. i'm sol, susan european countries, and there are talks with saudi arabia, as all the world is pretty big when it comes to this. there are many supply opens unit times. we know we need these pallets along someone to so we're working within an investment frameworks that will enable it to see more of an interest country of ideas, but nothing really concrete. appropriate urgently needed investment framework. the energy transition is, according to the a phone institution between 500000000000 euros and moles in st. trinity in your eyes. and that will have an impact on electricity prices. power will become increasingly expensive. the

even now in germany has the highest price for electricity worldwide. while jimmy consume is probably around city to euro cents per kilowatt hour, electricity is far cheaper in other countries. the federal orders have the blended. the rest of those holes has quickly said process may not rise. otherwise the energy transition will post a threat to social stability in germany. left out for them, it is because it says most defects according to law, the supply of electricity must be secure, but it was so affordable and reasonably priced. the development of costs of that puts us 1st in europe, of course, has impact on private households and small and medium sized companies. there's a whole huge cost factors that have to be don't talk to, and it's important that society isn't of a bad just because they're just a huge product overwhelmed by high electricity prices. the mid sized companies

failing on hassle is located in the bad piedmont. they made the products needed to the energy transition. special couple was the winter of bonds, power lines and electric cars. the electricity intensive processing of the metal in the meantime has left the company facing huge costs, the anti there and exit costs. and i'm here share of energy costs, and the manufacturing process is very high. and the higher the energy costs rise, the more critical the share becomes. and that's really worrying us. that's because in the end, that means the products we need to achieve, the energy transition will no longer be able to be made in europe. and especially in germany, then the wind turbines will come from asia as the in to stabilize spending on energy, many electricity intensive companies. a working with external energy costs manages like view and for each company, bonds, electricity,

and gas on the wholesale market. on behalf of mid sized enterprises. he says hi jim and electricity costs even damaged the climate via of point a who and in a game provides. and these are that to us when we're no longer competitive due to high energy prices, then business shifts to asia in china. that means that, well, the leading products made here with minimal emissions, medium of being manufactured in countries with much higher emissions and much greater environmental damage one on the, to whoever own that john. but the high cost of the biggest problem. so companies by far, much worse is the power outages happening more, more frequently. hi. so says it's because of the energy transition. the list is arms and for mation that's simple, but internally that's the stuff. my biggest concern is that the stability of the energy supply is becoming increasingly worse eyes. there are milli seconds long outages. they're not even recorded in figures, but for us it means

a 3 day processing standstill. and this is brad tag. or steve, you must, we have to reset all the machines again and painstakingly clean them. and before you know what our costs are in the region of 6 figures, 5 and what so comes exceeding that ice officially. germany occupies of 12 position in terms of the reliability of its power supply to the called the process. it doesn't benefit from this because the outages of less than 3 minutes don't show up in the statistics at all. they, they gave an energy transition is really lacking a stringent scientific fund based on physics and electrical engineering. it's become fond too much of a political and ideological playground where things are designed it electrically and ideologically. as a consequence of the energy transition, power consumption in germany is going to rise clearly by 2030 electric cars and electricity intensive heat pumps, for example, will contribute. the economics ministry is aware of this.

it's been the advance with the reasons protocol happen. this is true, will have additional power consumption to put the full costs, say around $50.00 or 60 percent more. then today, this additional electricity will be generated by wind turbines and solar power plants from germany. know what? we're getting everything ready now. so we can get to percent of the country surface area for wind, energy 5 and off. so additionally, we'll pull out all the stops with offshore wind in gym and it's close to waters for them. and then we've got lots of solar energy to add a. finally, this cooperation without name is going to unfold. electricity, germany needs can be produced in this way. the escape from the ones that same principle. there are many great ideas that can all be implemented in terms of your technical feasibility. i've no reservations, it can be done, but it's simply cost. it's an incredible amount of money and takes a long,

long time. it's like there's not too much time left because it's not just gymnast electricity consumption that's to become green within a few years. all the energies to industry and consume it should be produced in a fully climate for way in the near future. heavy industry consume is comic is own of the energy that you the consumes today in the form of coal, oil, gas, or gasoline, is to soon be replaced by green electricity. only about 16 percent of what's known as primary energy consumption comes from renewable sources at the moment. really 84 percent of jim niece, energy demand is still consumed in the form of fossil fuels such as oil comb. oh gas. my comparison nearly $30000.00 wind turbines in germany, supply just about 4 percent of the energy that germany needs in total. and 1st of

all takes and you can see pieces about 1.5 percent to the energy supply in germany . despite the so bring figures influence room time, is that diversity and hate him good? has a solution because primary energy use control in future p man again, is that same primary energy is something we waste of on solve in germany. if we look at a power plant, the steam coming out at the top is the primary energy with an internal combustion engine. i'm 75 percent of the heat goes on, use them out the heat zones. so when we shift will consume fall last primary energy man. when all energy use to switch to climate friendly electricity, every state will become more efficient. he would be assessed and would fix often be skeptical at the because chemical complex and the world around $40000.00 people work in 2000 and buildings in factories. the company produces plastics.

personalizes and the chemical pre cost is for other industries. it's energy use is moment 3 on sun gas power plants from around the clock. switching the production here to climate and util electricity. that's barely conceivable. of this, of the demons. one which was enough automatically. so you can't lose sight of the scale. today we use around 6 terrel what hours at the 2 weeks, often site to dispatch about one percent of the country's energy consumption. if we take everything we feed and run now with fossil fuels and transition that electrify, we'd use 3 times the amount of renewable electricity here. if all the chemical plants in germany were likewise electrified, we'd have energy consumption at around $600.00. carol, what hours meaning just the chemical industry would consume as much electricity as all of germany does today. so just to electrify the chemical industry,

the power consumption in gemini would have to double and on top of that, all the other industrial sectors, the whole transportation sector, agriculture and teasing both need clean electricity and fox. it's a fat sort of app to decades off to the energy transition motif in hosses. this is green hello, but our school renewable electricity will only be part of the solution. we have to import renewable energy and hydrogen from other countries and distributed in europe in germany. so we'll need pipelines for that. you can't deliver it with trucks and so you have to plan and invest in hydrogen pipelines. we must start to now. so when we need the hydrogen in a few years, we'll also be able to transport the whole country is to be electrified, unimaginable amounts of green hydrogen will be used. it will be a whole hydrogen economy that today doesn't even exist in pots. can it be

developed in just a few years that's really shopping with best buy and it was mindset top. of course we manage it in mind because we have a different mindset that will be, but we can go on planning construction projects on germany with the mindset we've had for the last 30 years and just instruct. in other words, this is and still got 21. ok, or a question of building a building and forth. so on a test of the mindset is what must characterize to come in is the time that means within 2 years, things will be planned on bills and approved about then it will what we've done, the data economist, the co pay doesn't see it. the test, the mindset is the key to energy transition success. he says, face and the benefits of the green energy is like a religious doctrine of other estimation. the disclose the old who not takes a little game in the midst of their stock on the discussion of green technologies is strongly reminiscent of science fiction literature some a month to hope so awaken that have

a certain romance with technology which are actually fall from the physical reality and by the hydrogen strategy conte work and then because of the surface areas we need to produce so much energy, but they're also the ones we need to produce hydrogen. then we don't have the spacing of display so it will be closed to access the space in the global south parnell per reading room. it's the same in the hospital during surgery. they all have an emergency generator and so tight i've never believed in those before. but if you suddenly find yourself in the dark during surgery, that's not an experience you want to have this thing. of course, it's an additional bit of security for me. i just want to have it easy as my conscience that i've done everything necessary on how the b eclipse current emergency is with several 1000 euros to the veterinarian because just a short power outage. you could really cost him money. and as it comes to know, as you go, i've got the products that need cooling and also vaccines. and there can be any

interruption and refrigeration booth a refrigerator can keep stuff cool for maybe 5 hours. i have a some monitor on it and it's linked to my computer via a data lock now. and if the veterinary inspectors come and say refrigeration was interrupted, i've lost a few 1000 zeros in vaccine center. but that can't happen. it doesn't feel pausing all in stuff like the statements for from sort of the non 5 or 7 years ago. we sold quite a few small generators longer than the kind used for hobbies, caravans campaigns and all sorts of things, all outdoor activities and the lighting to the trend now is heading towards household emergency power supplies and for a lot of them, because naturally they're afraid of palestine is the really been all start of the blinds, copy up in the air conditioner, quits of the heat goes off and stuff like that and i lost all his gym and his biggest power outage since the end of world war 2. he wants to land in 2005 heavy snow took down dozens of high voltage pilots. around

250000 households without power for up to 6 days. most didn't have hate eyes of the berlin district as clipping equal to full taste of a black house in february 2019. when an ex, devices of a 2 electric cables on a construction such suddenly over lights went house around 31000 households had no electricity for a day at the house. for you to assure was the fire prevention director of the building and fire department back then the use the research, the consequences of a blackout civilian. there's one that's pretty sure it is. so today's gun been indian. right. and hi, isn't it naturally against, particularly with critical when you've got hospitals that have emergency power supplies on and then suddenly something goes wrong, especially if that's what happened at the hospital and coping x and cubic plus here

at the brits, which is now after around 4 hours the emergency generators cut out, then things got really stressful because the 23 intensive care patients had to be moved on the double and see if by 10 and then so we needed to call on 23 doctors and specialized in critical care. it was a particularly dicey situation that you just need to let see. oh no. luckily the fire department was able some of these patients quickly to hospitals that still had power. but what happened and all of that and had a blackout. and for a long time period to be able to split tides because was, was fortunate and kind of in building if you had to be the most brutal type of chaos imaginable. believe it for a living where without power for a longer period, then you'd have to evacuate berlin. they probably just have an emergency crew here . police would monitor in the area, but it wouldn't be possible to live safely here anymore. we wouldn't be able to handle a major longer lasting power failure on our own support would have to come from

outside and a lot of it. and so i say if you comment until the end heading to doesn't believe the end. if you transition will close the blackout, does it was to power plants the think of some fuse them. i know a few course told them it's by that we still have a lot of coal fired power online because we're always cautious on that. in general, germany is one of the most cautious countries imaginable. accounts, imagine someone coming along and saying, okay, let me just jump this one down. it'll walk out ok for this to the always to cancel for that all the problems. so i thought basic truck, so i, we need all show and on show and so to electricity, because by compliment each other so well. offshore, of course, has the big advantage that it's so when do you see that it comes close to the face low to going class problem? in that sense? it's a stupid components having to publish time offshore wind turbines to fly around twice as much electricity as a count of pods on land. thousands of them to be built in the north sea and the

phone 6 by 2030. the next issue with the energy transition is the power isn't being produced where it's needed. the real energy hungry industry is located above own, in southern germany. so new power lines must be built. lots of them. the federal net was agency estimates, the total of around 14000 kilometers of power line must either be to new or expanded. otherwise the energy transition will fail the email, but i mean, the last few years we've been shifting from conventional generations. so gas, coal lens and nuclear into renewable energy is the bottom. and this the, from the can see much coal power plants and the ryan land and roof l. a. we're located, the can see him is open in the future who have wind turbines. and as we can see already, primarily in the north save, we need to cross long stretches to transport the pallet. and to do that, we need to expand the grid well within that plus thousands of pylons have to be

built in 2 and thousands of columbus has a power line installed. it's a gargantuan task. instead of the promise tesla months this year, this plan to use something else above the gym and bureaucracy. we have recently continued while getting approval. we certainly added a lot to the project. we faced extremely high demands for impact studies on people's bases and major conservation of fluids, but also in terms of residential and environmental protection. i'll be glad to weigh that off as lots of studies, and that takes time sites. the need to expand to create has been known for years. that very little was going on for a long time. that's why most of the expansion is still not i'm still a line in the country on a line has a network volume of 4000 kilometers. and which is creepy, towards having $1000.00 is finished. right. the most today around 3000 kilometers

is still in the process of being approved. especially the big car doors we. i'd certainly like for the shift on those actually slightly behind schedule to come on instead of 2025 or to be 2027 to combust refunded item. i'm not and it's not just an pre owned it's delayed building. it was a parade has had similar trouble. it's funny around 2000 of the 14000 kilometers. they've finished. that's caused dramatic consequences. if there's too much wind on the coast, the power line capacity frequently con, handle it the to that trips, the warning lights in the network control room and pre owned that shows there were dangerous bottlenecks in the great the business that we need to run the network at higher and higher capacity, so we're pushing it closer and closer to it. safety limits for comparison, it's like standing on

a train platform and getting closer and closer to the trail and put some up like i want to be a nobody at all. once a blackout and but if they keep ignoring the physics at some point, it's going to get difficult to them. but no one can say when you have the point to simply, it's becoming more likely because there's been a clear increase in the number of network interventions with the frequency must be massively supported. it's the number of serious incidents has also clearly increased out. we all hope that it never happens, but the problem ability is very, very high that it actually could and doesn't front of my boss the income, the 50 is a blackout just as a law missile. oh, correct. brenda was building spot chief and president of the federal agency for technical relief, piece of preparedness x the base, the 1st of us in the next young can also, as for most fun,

i see that in the coming use that will be just the type is power fan, you'll black out that will dock and not just a straight to a neighborhood, but several gym and states or a member countries. and it won't be resolved in a few hours. instead of it will unfortunately take a few wait time. so the items have opened, go up a very little in modern society, works without for electricity, jim, and he would hardly be prepared for that. the key of a sewage systems. why work anymore? because the thumping stations are electric telephones while i work up to 2 hours and they smell the pessimistic version from psychologist it is that people will like situations with develop quickly because you wouldn't be able to get money. anyone with that cash can't buy anything. you've just got to imagine those things

and what they mean. there's no electricity life. we just come to a stand still stand alone . power failure would be a harsher present co cottage as well. if the worst happens, he wants to at least power his refrigerator is the monthly fee of $5.00. it doesn't seem like somebody should definitely think about this because the energy transition is now being felt intensively. even if things turn out differently, you definitely feel better about it. today, how about fuels? can it run on rape? see, diabetes is also tight and can know as or not i makes the oil is it'd be far out to fix, probably diluted events. it will work out of industry, you know, to find and lack of gain. buying emergency generations for blackouts. is that proven cross of preparation or just panic? the list, even the federal government is now calling on businesses to find the backup

generators in case of possible shortages. this get, there are lots of people who are afraid right now. so should on social media that are many shipping to say next winter everybody's going to be dock and cold. and i think that it's a loss of confidence because the issue has been reported to dad, so i get it pushed in the activist has less understanding. so the many barriers, the energy transition still faces as after. and how many of you right now, we have far too few bound trace to even combo just one winter to little as happened that currently we're pretty empty handed, blank goals. energy storage, enormous batteries, for example, what's are known as pump storage power plants. they can be deployed with renewables, does provide enough power and help tools, the a black house. but germany isn't in such bad shape when it comes to energy storage. says energy economist, cloudy,

attempted escape. there are lots of storage types. so we've got pump, storage, power plants that needs to be expanded. it's important that's done. so we have faster re storage facilities which and now entering the system more and more storage facility is by to assume they don't exist and it is a message. get all the really energy storage facilities so ready next to the shots of pump, a coal fired power plant and the louse it's region are a few hopefuls to contain is a full factory modules. the idea is that one day is that too much power is being produced by renewables. what is known as the big back for a well store to sip a screen entity, etc. the battery allows it's germany's biggest storage system. it's a very significant part within the framework of stabilizing the future power supply in germany when there's no wind. and so the energy that energy security will be guaranteed electricity is supplied to deliver energy. but the

biggest gym and battery storage system could barely contribute to the countries energy supply. it produces precisely 50 megawatts of outputs. the leak not 5 power plant. it trots upon for by comparison pumps out $1600.00 megawatts the pump storage power plant. so then vasa, to lean to and can also store energy and there's plenty available, for example, from renewables for fluids come from the song, the rid of the, to the top base and it this to listen electricity. the water flows from the upper basin via to bind some back into the solemn, and that generates energy. holding 70 percent of the energy deployed to pump the water up can be re gained in this way. and pump supplies across the valley isn't going to go by that there's

a pump storage and how plant is a technology that's also capable of really storing large masses of energy. that's already a decisive characteristic. if it's a lot smaller, is that the specifics of the plants guarantee that we can switch on and off in no time at all in regards to allowing us to react fos to volatility and fluctuations in degree until 5 o'clock young to 60 year old turbines need a few minutes to get up to full output. they help very quickly to stabilize the network. for example, if renewables pro fault but the output of who involved a to is also limited for the 2 generates the $320.00 megawatts. linked with the upper basin with 3000000 cubic meters. so we could theoretically supply electricity to $25000.00 households for a way would not be fulfilled. but in order to provide electricity for a waste, you and you're doing cool, salsa, hundreds of pump storage power plants like who involved to,

to will be needed. there's a new, round, fishy, of them in order of germany. it's a stock, nothing more, lloyd and endorsement germany. today, we've got 40 gigawatt hours of storage capacity with these 40 gigawatts, depending on how the electricity consumption is. we could supply the country with electricity for 30 to 60 minutes. and then we noticed that if a don't close out to last week, then we're not really advancing. so what i need is always these items v, v, v, that we see have the development of storage capacity is running automatically to law. every 2nd tv system that is built into a single family home license already has the storage attached and that increases quickly. besides its full cost, that will be 15000000 electric costs by 2030 and i will have a big storage capacity there. and we've got the challenge that there's something in the house. so the garage and that has to be connected with the whole system because i'm, we're working on that on an item via is this an acute need for electricity,

then use the factories of private electric cars and tap into the solar energy storage of single family homes that could actually be just one more challenge. at the economics ministry, the hoping that it will work in the future. the aims of the energy transition are and vicious. the expansion of renewables must rapidly multiply. the building of the network must progress hydrogen industry will develop from nothing and don't cool flap and will be overcome with gas fired power plants and storage batteries. but none of this exists over the in any way near sufficient quantity. even when you knows, in the meantime, have sit binding contracts for renewables. the visa can, as an architect to the risks, have to be compet and consider to make it more risk factors come together. now say

for example, we don't move so quickly and launching renewables by then we'll have problems building the networks all with storage batteries. so suddenly with conventional energy supplies, we still feed into the grid, like gas for the gas power plant. and it will, that goes differently than planned. a number of recess queen size. and suddenly we're looking at a worst case scenario is you got to keep that in mind. it's elementary, tall, be the must be open, cutting boy started with what we're doing at the moment in germany into 3 or 4 years, we won't be able to supply germany anymore under its own steam. and we're hoping the neighbors help us and networks without bringing enormous amounts of power into the country. and hope maybe we'll have a bit more storage capacity when 12 involved us, if you least of mind this includes lunch by you. so there's lots and lots of hope, but what we're doing is leading us down a path that won't actually work. i think he's going to the end of the aims of the

energy transition supplied affluent society securely with reasonably priced renewable energy, while not damaging the environment for the climate. at the same time, a copay says that's an impossible target of defense. why it's important to set the sites on a smaller no longer a growing economy, a post growth economy, see the different lifestyle as part of that independent we the contract lives for ya. sounds that ballast that just cause time money and results this falls and takes up space. and beyond that, we've got to extend the usable length of the products around as far as that there it's smartphones or bicycles, fabrics, all furniture, and we've got to double if not, play its lines and use many things community to mind shop to smoke. so let's consumption, clearly less mobility and ultimately less affluence. all of that would undoubtedly help 5 climate change. the energy transition can contribute to it succeeds.

but right now, there was too many unresolved implementation problems. many of the required steps taken far too long and time is flying. the risk of a black house is growing. one that could have devastating consequences to gemini the event, and that's how the victims of the as quick and touchy feely zoo body to count on as one of many who have lost the family. for the past 6 months, she's been living in rubble and dust, and it's the spread of disease and squeeze her hope for the future is facing the focus on the 30 minutes on

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