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2022-07-28 Europe

Germany: Stockpiling wood in fear of gas shortage

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Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

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When we were in Germany back in the 60's it was fine to cut down or damage a tree.
Has Germany started importing dried wood from another source or has it replenish the forests decimated during WWII.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-07-28 07:28|| 2022-07-28 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 So You Want to Eat a Tree

Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-28 11:34|| 2022-07-28 11:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Welcome to the marvels of climate change zealotry!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-07-28 11:48|| 2022-07-28 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Germany turns off the hot water: Hanover becomes first big city to ban hot water in public buildings in response to Russian gas crisis

Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-28 12:03|| 2022-07-28 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 https://i.pinimg.com/736x/42/4b/9d/424b9df80f806438fbc64a30bbeb39ca--berlin--berlin-germany.jpg

You can make the Unter den Linden look like 1945 again. Brilliant!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-07-28 13:13|| 2022-07-28 13:13|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ one form of socialism or another. Seems the end results are similar.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-28 13:15|| 2022-07-28 13:15|| Front Page Top

#7 The agitation this will cause environmentalists is worth the price.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-28 13:17|| 2022-07-28 13:17|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ They should be stockpiling wind.

Posted by Matt 2022-07-28 13:47|| 2022-07-28 13:47|| Front Page Top

#9 They should be stockpiling wind

Great idea for a sci-fi plot. A society that has created the technology to generate a huge stationary hurricane far out at sea and then tap it for energy.

Then they lose control...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-28 13:50|| 2022-07-28 13:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Graphic at link shows wood emissions (PM 2.5) for wood are about 12 times that of coal.

What would Greta do?

Posted by Bobby 2022-07-28 16:45|| 2022-07-28 16:45|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ I'm guessing the emissions from Greta would be about midway between wood and coal, but it's certainly worth looking into.

Posted by Matt 2022-07-28 17:07|| 2022-07-28 17:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Re #4: IIRC, Jimmy Carter ordered all federal buildings to turn off hot water. I don't remember if that applied to showers.
Of course, Jimmy also drive around DC at night to personally check that federal buildings had turned off their lights at night.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2022-07-28 17:31|| 2022-07-28 17:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Speaking of Unter den Linden, old ways often being the best, and, um, Austrian enthusiasms... love me some Eberhard Kummer. Did I really just say that? Well, so what? Tinkly harp notwithstanding, I wouldn't trade him for a million of yer modern airy-fairy SCA metal-minstrels.

Posted by Knuckles Grumble2372 2022-07-28 20:29|| 2022-07-28 20:29|| Front Page Top

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