Karsten Hilse, Brown Coal Power Plants, May 9, 2019

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]

European Election Program, 9th European Parliament 2019, Finance and Economy

European Election Program

Program of the Alternative für Deutschland for Election

     of the 9th European Parliament 2019

Finance and Economy

4.5 Maintain Value Creation, Promote Key Technologies

We criticize the EU abolishing the combustion engine by all political means; i.e., by absurd limit values, driving bans and drastic penalty payments, which thereby drive the German automobile firms to foreign countries. We want the opposite; namely, reliable sector conditions which keep the business and the work with us. Additionally, firms should be supported by consultant service, cooperation and exchange platforms and with their start-up financing.

For the development of high technologies, we want to provide promotion funding which allows the users maximum flexibility. By way of example are here mentioned the space program and programs for the development of artificial intelligence. The system imminent difficulty of state-overlapping cooperation cannot lead to our falling behind more flexible actors.

4.6 Strengthen “Made in Germany”

National and regional quality standards and declarations of origin are to be defended. That includes marks like “Made in Germany” and also training standards. EU prescriptions cannot lead to qualifications acquired in foreign countries being made equivalent without submitting a workplace examination according to national standards.

European Election Program, 9th European Parliament 2019, Finance and Economy

European Election Program

Program of the Alternative für Deutschland for Election

     of the 9th European Parliament 2019

Finance and Economy

4.3.1 Reduction of EU Expenditures

The AfD demands a diminution of the budget by at least that of Great Britain’s omitted net income. Further costs originating from new EU propositions will only be permitted to be taken up when these costs are financed by savings in other areas of the EU budget. Expenditure reduction also includes shrinking the EU administration as well as an immediate end to the tourism, costly in terms of time and money, between the three workplaces of Strasbourg, Brussels and Luxembourg.

4.3.2 National Reforms instead of Redistribution

For decades the EU mainly sought to construct equivalent economic conditions in the member states by means of the redistribution of billions in cohesion funds. This goal proved to be unattainable. Over 70% of the yearly EU budget of 144.7 billion euros (2018) will be used for cohesion and agriculture. That has nothing to do with with the future security or further development of the EU.

The AfD therefore demands the cessation of the cohesion funds and the decrease of the EU budget by an equivalent measure. Structural improvements and reforms must be carried out under the national authority of the member states. The AfD further demands that a cost-benefit analysis be carried out in rotation for all expenditures and subventions. It shall thus be ascertained whether the expected goal was attained and whether it is sensible to continue.

4.4 Competition instead of Bureaucracy

The AfD sees the purpose of the European Union to be primarily in the areas of forming common European economies and the provision of fair competition conditions. Competition is a basic prerequisite for technical progress and for favorable consumer prices. The investor has to bear the economic risks, not the state and thereby ultimately the taxpayer. Conditions of market entry are to be assimilated so that a selling-off of our economy, for example to China, will be hindered. Intervention equivalent to expropriation, we reject. Similarly, we reject a parallel judiciary and special courts. For the economic miracle of the post-war years, Germany is indebted to its inventors and engineers and to the investors in know-how and production sites. Today, we are intimidated by, among other things, the bureaucratic layers. The AfD demands the reduction of bureaucratic expenses and a corresponding examination of EU donor guidelines, of EU service guidelines, of credit extension guidelines and the straight-forward documentation duties of the small businessman.

[Translated by Todd Martin]