The ZEW economic sentiment index for Germany surged to 26.3 in July, more than doubling from 10.5 in the previous month and significantly exceeding the market forecast of 17.5, according to data released by the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW).
Their detailed “plan” to grow 6 industries actually includes sabotaging battery production on the grid level for their fossil fuel industry buddies, sabotaging battery production in EVs by constantly spouting desinformation about the viability of ICEs via synthetic fuels (same,same…). And every talk about AI and biotech is just a pretense to press the topic of demolishing data protection to sell our medical data (sadly their electronic patient file project is sich a disaster that noone tries to buy the data when it’s leak left and right constantly anyway) as well es every other private information. Fusion (alongside fission) is just another fairy tale to keep people doubting renewables, again just to keep the oil, gas and goal burning up.
Could you substantiate your fears with the actual plans? https://hightech-agenda-deutschland.de/
What “fears” are you talking about? I did not mention any fears of what might actually happen but simply recounted their real actions while you parrot the unsubstantiated lies they tell.
Can you substantiate your scenarios with the actual plans? I provided the link to the plans…
Which scenario? The reality.
Merz party is the one that spend the last decade delaying grid extensions and upgrades by idiotic nimby discussions and the requirement to put them all underground. The moment there was another government that finally started the “planned” (read: we talk about it but never do) upbuild, they started a new discussion if over-ground installation wasn’t cheaper and easier hoping to delay it even more.
Merz party is the one staunchly refusing power pricing zones in Germany so their moronic Bavarian arm can keep blocking wind power without financial consequences. The new Ministry of Economy and Energy also managed to push for change in grid fees, so the northern states producing cheap energy have to pay extra.
Speaking about that Ministry… There is twice the capacity in applications for battery storage than Germany would need in the next years but none of them get build because the grid providers (deeply entagled with or subsideries of fossil fuel heavy energy companies) delay the connections. The CEO of one of them that managed to delay the basic application process by literal years got rewarded with the job as Minister under Merz. The same obvious fossil fuel lobbyists is now also working on completely blocking battery storage and renewables (by allowing them only where the grid has overcapacities yet giving not the slightest incentive for the grid providers to improve the grid) while also having reworked the long-term energy plans with insane fantasy specs and requirements making sure that only fossil fuel power plant can guarantee energy security.
(PS: The same plan basically kills all renewable upbuild, as they create a combination of “grid providers can throttle your production down if the grid can’t handle it”, “grid providers have no incentive to improve the grid” and “you get no money if the power you produce isn’t used but are not allowed by law to build storage alongside it either”. Try getting any investment into your project if the business model is solid yet a third party (which in this case is a corrupt fossil fuel loving government party) can block your business at a whim.)
Merz party is also the one pushing on the EU level to reverse the policies on ICEs while loudly hallucinating about eFuels as a valid alternative (they do the same for heating, too). It’s basically a constant “Just keep using fossil fuels. There will be green alternatives in a few years that make any changes on your side unneccessary (because we don’t understand thermodynamics *wink wink*)” desinformation campaign 24/7.
Also ask about the industry that spend billions (plus subsidies from the EU and the former German government) on transforming their energy intensive business models (like steel production for example) to climate-neutral production… All there new shiny facilities (using hydrogen and electricity instead of coal and gas) come only in the next 1-3 years while right now German conservatives from Merz party are pushing to weaken already existing climate-protection laws and CO₂ pricing to kill those business models.
Should we talk about Merz party’s insane surveilance dreams (lobbied mostly by US AI companies) and love of Palantir to put their ideas about AI in the correct context?
What’s else… Oh, yeah: The ePA (electronic patient file) is standard for everyone with public health insurance since 2025 unless you explicitly objected. It’s a totally ridiculous bullshit concept, insecure like shit (with a multitude of leaks and demonstrated weaknesses you can exploit to access other people’s data) because the whole concept is build for commercialising health data, including laughable pseudonymous instead of proper anonymous data sharing.
Again: None of those are plans or scenarios. Those are facts and things that already happened.
I was talking about the high-tech agenda plans. We seem to be talking about different things
Oh, I understand the difference between what we talk about. My problem is that I don’t believe any of their plans, when their actions are contrary to those plans.
They might say that they have battery tech plans, but they actually sabotage the main sectors using large modern batteries (transport and power grid). They might say they have fusion plans, but they don’t actually increase any spending in research and just use it as an empty talking point (for example when painting “renewables as just an interim solution” - paraphrasing Merz). They might talk a lot about chip design and AI and how to build up a skilled work force, but don’t actually invest into education (quite the contrary: the educational sector is ailing in every conceivable aspect).
I simple know their story telling quite well by now. They try to sell the same future fairy tales for decades: climate neutral renewable energy soon - while actually subsidising coal and limiting grid upkeep/-build to keep fossil fuels relevant no matter how much clean, cheap energy is actually produced; digitalisation - actually just a buzz word to justify more cost cutting in already overworked sectors and deregulation for their industry buddies (sometimes just defacto deregulation by pushing supervisors to the breaking point); less bureaucracy - again just cost cutting to break the system, then cry that obviously even more cuts are needed; and my recent favorite: a massive amount of debt to invest in infrastructure and economy - to then waste it all on other stuff and manage to actually invest even less than in former years.
Yes, they have a published high-tech agenda. It’s a lie because lying is all they do.
Okay, now I get your point much better. Thank you for clarifying!
I just want to add that your account of the fossil fuel lobby is accurate. It’s really terrible how they influence governments across the world.