Green warmongers such as Germany’s Baerbock and Habeck did not even realize that a gas embargo against Russia, as they advocate, will sabotage their own Green Transition. As Andreas König of RBB (Radio Berlin Brandenburg) wrote, such a “green embargo,” if implemented, would destroy the entire European solar industry.
Example: The impact of the embargo policy on making structured glass needed for solar panels. The raw materials of glass factories have to be heated up to 1600° Celsius. This temperature must then be maintained around the clock, so that the raw glass does not harden, and the equipment is not damaged. “Normally, you only stop the melting process once to rebuild the furnace,” says Torsten Schröter, managing director of Glasmanufaktur Brandenburg (GMB) in Tschernitz, Brandenburg. About 10 million square meters of special glass for solar plants and greenhouses are produced here every year. This costs a large amount of energy, which has so far been supplied by Russian natural gas for 15 years already, and is currently without an alternative, says the managing director. The plant cannot simply be converted to coal or oil. That would not be technically feasible. In the long term, the “vision” is to switch to hydrogen. But the infrastructure is still lacking.
