The Nazi Origins of Renewable Energy and Global Warming


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History can be a great instructor of how to avoid the mistakes of the past.   But far too many people ignore the lessons that are there for all to learn

As today’s leftists enjoy calling conservatives “fascist” and “Nazi,” they show their profound ignorance. The driving forces in the Hitler regime were left-wing socialists and anti-capitalists.

Dr. Franz Lawaszeck was an inventor and manufacturer of hydropower turbines in Bavaria.  As an early member of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (the National Socialist German Workers’ Party or Nazi Party), he soon became a prominent spokesman about the economic policy of the party, especially energy policy.”

In 1933 he published his blueprint for Hitler’s energy policy, Technology and Economy in Third Reich: A Program for Work.

He was clearly in the left-wing anti-capitalist part of the party and had a close relation to other leftist National Socialists such as Feder, Streicher, Himmler, Backe, Goebbels, etc.”

Lawaszeck called for a Nazi transformation of the power industry (sound familiar to the Obama war on coal) to a society based on hydro, wind and hydrogen power.

Hydro and wind power can provide up to 80% of energy.  The renewable energy is flowing and free.  Why aren’t they used more?”

He believed wind power could be built on a large scale, using towers at least 350 feet high situated along the sea coast. To effectively reach the most reliable wind sources, some scientists advocated building 1,300-foot high towers.

Our mission is to build the new hydro and wind power plants independent of the electrical grid, so they produce valuable storable energy in the form of hydrogen gas.  Hydrogen can easily be stored and transported in pipelines.  Hydrogen will be produced by pressure electrolysis, so the gas will be compressed without extra energy consumption.”

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As a major coal producer, Germany had a significant mining industry. Lawaszeck was an advocate of coal liquefaction, which he believed could create 100,000 jobs (green energy jobs!).

Cooler heads prevailed as the push for renewable energy advanced. It was determined that to build the 1,300-foot high wind towers, 27,500 tons of steel would be needed. With the ramping up of the Nazi war machine, and the critical need for steel and the coal used to make it, the Nazi leadership recognized this was simply unrealistic.

During this period other German scientists began more research into meteorology. In 1941, Hermann Flohn published the first German-language article on global warming, The Activity of Man as a Climate Factor.

Flohn survived the war and was still publishing similar theories as recently as 1980. At that time he produced C02-Induced Warmth More Dangerous than Nuclear Energy.

Up to a value of 450 ppm, there are apparently only risks that can be countered by an adaptation strategy[.] A really catastrophic climate can only be expected at about 750 ppm: the freezing of the Arctic ice ocean shifts the climate and precipitation belts around 600 to 800 km [375 to 500 mi] to the North Pole (less to the South Pole).”

The preposterous theories that have made Al Gore a multi-millionaire and a world-class charlatan have their intellectual origins during one of the ugliest periods in human history with a regime that took far too many theories to extremes.

As Spanish philosopher George Santayana noted, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Source: American Thinker

 

 



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