Brickbat: All Charged Up

Starting next year, Germany will ban new oil or gas boilers from being installed in buildings. Instead, building owners must install heat pumps. But the country's electricity grid is already straining because of lack of investment, so the government has also given grid operators the ability to throttle heat pumps and electric vehicle chargers, also starting next year. The government's green energy plans anticipate adding 500,000 heat pumps every year through 2030 and adding 15 million electric vehicles in that time. But during periods when demand threatens to overwhelm the grid, heat pumps can be limited to 4.2 kilowatts per hour and electric vehicles chargers will get just enough juice to charge a vehicle for a 50 kilometer drive over two hours.

Comments

[I, Woodchipper]

they want everyone stuck at home, freezing and starving

[SQRLSY One]

Yes, butt... With special exceptions for special people!

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[Rise of the Impedance]

Yes, butt… With special exceptions for special people!
Well, obviously. Society would not stand for it if the Special Ones had to endure the same hardships as us rabble.

[Adans smith]

Goose stepping to 'net zero'.

[Vernon Depner]

The slow-motion suicide of Western Civilization.

[Mr. Bing]

Right. Apocalyptic death cult in every way.

[Chumby]

Germany telling Cali and New York, “Halt mein Bier.”

[defaultdotxbe]

Halte mein Bier

[Chumby]

Wirst du meine Affe anfassen?

[SQRLSY One]

NOOOO!!! I will SNOT touch yer monkey, OR your ape, not EVEN with Der Trumpfen-Farter-Fuhrer's 3-angstrom penis! Not with a bloated goat, not on a boat, nor even with Spermy Daniel's penis, either!!!

[Fist of Etiquette]

You know who else liked to control certain room temperatu-

Nah, this one might be too far.

[Dan S.]

heat pumps can be limited to 4.2 kilowatts per hour

I guess that's supposed to say simply 4.2 kilowatts. Watts measure power, which is to say, the rate of energy usage, so the "per hour" (or "per unit time" in general) is already implicit in that. You could call it 4.2 kilowatt-hours per hour, but that would be kind of foolish. [Technically, a watt is a joule (unit of energy) per second. A watt-hour is 3,600 joules, a kilowatt-hour is 3,600,000, and 4.2 kilowatt-hours are 15,120,000.] The lack of such basic scientific understanding among the general population is sad.

[Chumby]

Or a daily cap on heat pump usage of 4.2 kwh.

[mad.casual]

As if limiting travel weren't bad enough, the fucking Krauts had to limit everyone to 50 miles in two hours... in metric!

[Agammamon]

Or it could be limited to 4.2 kw/hr - but over what duration? 4.2 kw/hrs a day, week, month?

[Chumby]

Lifetime.

Winter kommt.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Good thing they still have a robust nuclear energy market, otherwise this is just completely insane.

[Illocust]

They'll just blame the ensuing freezing deaths and heat stroke deaths on climate change.

[TJJ2000]

^This.... They sure as heck will never admit it was their own climate religions doing and even if backed into a corner the deaths will just be a holy sacrafice.

[Mickey Rat]

" But during periods when demand threatens to overwhelm the grid, heat pumps can be limited to 4.2 kilowatts per hour and electric vehicles chargers will get just enough juice to charge a vehicle for a 50 kilometer drive over two hours."

Is this stupidity or a nefarious plan? Does it matter which?

[Don't look at me!]

It’s stupidity. A nefarious plan wouldn’t let you know ahead of time.

[sarcasmic]

Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

[Agammamon]

The problem here is that when its being repeatedly done, over and over, despite clear evidence that not only does it not work but its actively making things worse - at some point the stupidity becomes malicious.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

Madness.

[TJJ2000]

And in today's news.... All those conspiracy theories spouted by libertarians about climate-policy putting government entirely in control of your electricity usage comes true in Germany.

[Vernon Depner]

Lately it takes no more than three years for conspiracy theories to be proven factual.

[TJJ2000]

Reminds me of that day when the government had to help the 'poor' with healthcare and a few years later brought about the healthcare crisis of unaffordable for everyone.

Enter the "Energy Crisis" that'll never end because government just couldn't leave it the F'Alone.

[markm23]

So they've admitted that they _know_ their plan to electrify everything is impractical - but they're going ahead anyhow.

[jdgalt1]

This same presumptuous tyranny is coming to the US and the rest of the world.

The answer is to go off the grid and stay that way. Or at least:

(1) collect things like generators and fuel-powered heaters that you can use without the government knowing, and

(2) refuse to have any "smart" appliance, much less a Siri or Ring device, in or around your home.

(3) refuse to have or use a car that sends reports to authorities, or that depends on the electric grid for charging.

And (4) if you must have a cell phone, keep it in a Faraday bag when you don't need the network to be able to find it or surveil you using it.