Life must be easy if one free-floats, disregarding facts and instead believing what one wants to believe.Originally Posted by JMA
The actual statistics
http://www.bafa.de/bafa/de/energie/e...n/egashist.pdf
natural gas imports from Russia
2008: 1.527.566 TJ of total 4.040.640 TJ = 37.8%
2012: 1.413.482 TJ of total 4.029.702 TJ = 35.1%
(percentages without the storage net total, preliminary figures)
primary energy consumption of Germany in 2012. Erdgas = natural gas ('earth gas')
report on the topic http://www.bmwi.de/DE/Themen/Energie...id=292324.html
You're badly mistaken if you think Germany could not absorb the loss of 35.1% of 21.6% of its primary energy consumption (= 7.6%). Natural gas is mostly a primary energy for the peak electricity generation. Electricity can also be imported from neighbours during peak times. Germany is actually a net electricity exporting country.
The difficulties caused by a loss of Russian natural gas imports would be dispersed and thus diluted in Central and West Europe.
The DUH comes in an analysis to the conclusion that the production of the (natural) gas powerplants in Germany shrank by a quarter in a half-year comparison (...)"Die Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) kommt in einer Analyse zum dem Ergebnis, dass auch die Produktion der Gaskraftwerke in Deutschland im Halbjahresvergleich um ein Viertel eingebrochen ist (...)
25% less electricity from natural gas and we didn't even notice.
There are plenty people believing in the fragility of European countries - "Muslim invasion!" "low fertility" "dependence on Russian gas". The reality is non-spectacular, even boring.
They want to believe in a fragile, weak and lost Europe, though.
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Germany is less dependent on Russia than Russia is dependent on Germany.
We can bear a loss of Russian energy exports much easier than they bear the loss of energy export revenues. It's the only big thing which runs well in their economy.
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