Karsten Hilse
Brown Coal Power Plants
German Bundestag, May 9, 2109,
Plenarprotokoll 19/98, pp. 11761-11763
[Karsten
Hilse is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the eastern
German state of Saxony. He is a police officer. He here responds to a Green
Party proposal to shut down brown coal power plants in Germany.]
105 gigawatt, 0.7 gigawatt, 46 gigawatt.
These numbers sound very cryptic. They will say nothing to most of you, at
least not to you. And yet they show why, with the so-called renewables, no
industrial state can be supplied with electricity [Strom]. That is to say, they
make clear the variations in electricity production of January of this year. To
solve the riddle for you: 105 gigawatts in electrical output in wind energy and
energy from solar plants were installed in Germany in January. That is already
now more than 20 gigawatts or 30 percent more than we in this beautiful country
consume in the hardest winter.
What have these plants delivered? In January
there was again as always a reduction of wind and sun so that then there was
only less than 1 gigawatt – it was exactly 0.7 gigawatt – available. 72
gigawatts were consumed at that time, over one hundred times more. That
corresponds to 72 conventional power plants. April was particularly successful.
Throughout the entire month of April, the rapidly rising maximum bids could not
be received by our grid and must be disposed of by extra payments in foreign
countries. The net extra cost to us for this Green joke guzzled 1.9 billion euros
more than it was worth on the exchange. That is the new, Green world of
electricity to which you, Frau Chancellor – good, she is not there – supported
by all the old parties, have led us…
The gigantic deficiencies undeniably brought
on by this electricity generation must be fulfilled by the much-abused coal and
nuclear power plants. But it is precisely these which you wish to shut down.
For you, the shut down cannot proceed quickly enough. The approximately 30,000
jobs which in Saxony are directly or indirectly dependent on brown coal will be
written off as collateral damage. That is a betrayal of the coal miners who in
wind and weather stand for a secure supply of electricity. That is a betrayal!
An electricity supply dependent alone on
natural forces can and will not work. You can make no policy counter to the
laws of nature. No one can do that, whatever megalomania may have befallen him –
wanting to save the whole world, for example.
Should you still adhere to the coal
shut-down, then we moreover, as soon as we are in the government, will again
make it null and void. You may then for once at least attempt to manage
rationally and initially plan for at least 40 gigawatts basic load by means of
alternative energies when available; for example, by large storage batteries.
We require nothing otherwise in our previous motions. All promised investments
such as Power-to-Gas, Power-to-X, or Power-to-Whatever, are generally in the
situation of first being available in a matter of decades. Until then,
coal-generated electricity must be maintained as the more secure basic load
producer.
The relinquishment of coal [Kohleausstieg] is
based on purely ideological grounds. The basis is the hypothesis that global
warming is decisively influenced by CO2 emissions.
Timon
Gremmels (SPD): Research knowledge!
For that, as previously, there is simply no
evidence.
Johann Saathoff
(SPD): Such nonsense!
Even if one should believe in this absurd
theory of man-made climate change, then we could by immediate shut-down of all
German coal power plants reduce global warming by a purely mathematical maximum
of 0.00284 degrees Celsius.
Vice-President
Dr. Hans-Peter Friedrich: Will you permit an interim question,
Herr Hilse?
But naturally; always gladly. It lengthens my
speaking time…
Dieter Janacek (Bundnis
90/Grünen): Herr colleague Hilse, I personally find it to be very good when the
AfD thus positions itself in the climate question. I believe you thereby marginalize
yourselves over the long term.
You marginalize yourself.
Dieter Janacek (Bundnis
90/Grünen): That offers the possibility that in a few years you will no longer
be encountered here. But I come to my question. You have again named this
number, this 0.00 etc. number. You know it quite precisely. This number, should
one be able to take it earnestly at all, is concerned with our omitting in
Germany CO2 emissions for the length of a year. What sense does this number
make? Should we then next year start up again the brown coal power plants, or
what is the idea of this number?
The second
question. Next week will be gathered in the German Bundestag the cream of the
cream of pseudo-scientists, for example, Tom Wysmuller of the Heartland
Institute, who are financed by the Koch Brothers, Philip Morris and the U.S. petroleum
industry. That you are the bailiff of the American petroleum industry, is that
your testimony for climate defense?
Petr
Bystrom (AfD): Better than a 16 year old girl.
For once, I am grateful for the question. I
will be quite brief here. You have not paid attention, I believe I have said: A
savings of 0.000284 degrees Celsius by the immediate shut-down of all German coal
power plants. That means that these coal power plants never again emit CO2.
These emissions can thus be saved only once. That is the result which is sought
by formula of the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]. The basis
is the so-called Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity of 3.2 degrees, which in the
view of most scientists is excessive. Put it into the formula, then you can do
the calculations. You can do it yourself. I can gladly send you the formula.
But you can also look it up at the IPCC. Then is produced precisely the value
of 0.000284 degrees Celsius by which the global warming is reduced.
We come to the next point. You, for example,
gather yourselves behind – excuse me when I say so – an ill young lady or those
adults or NGOs who are controlling this child.
Timon
Gremmels (SPD): Shamelessness! Unbelieveable!
Katharina
Dröge (Bundnis 90/Grünen): That really is shamelessness!
Johann
Saathoff (SPD): That is a slap in the face!
For once show who administers the
contributions account for Fridays for Future – I call the movement merely No
Education Fridays.
Timon
Gremmels (SPD): Concerning contributions, the AfD should be entirely quiet.
What then has that to do with? Students were
never in a position themselves to organize such demonstrations. That costs
money; equipment is required. A student organization alone cannot do that. In
the background are probably NGOs, Greens, Linke, as always.
Timon
Gremmels (SPD): Who is behind your contributions?
Good. All is clear. I may proceed. To steal,
according to the IHK [Chamber for Industry and Commerce], 170 billion from the
German taxpayer for the named, crazily small value is incomprehensible for
anyone with a sound human understanding.
The science journalist Nigel Calder prophesied
in 1998 – I cite with your consent: All parties in the industrial states,
whether left or right, will adopt the CO2 global warming theory. This is a one
time opportunity to tax the air we breathe. Because they thereby apparently
protect the world from heat stroke, the politicians therefore receive applause.
No party will resist this attempt. Nigel Calder is proven right by those who
already have long sat here. The AfD requires an end to this ideological madness
and a return to a reasonable energy policy.
Many thanks for your attention.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
