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Everything’s just fine in Germany, isn’t it?

Everything’s being converted to organic. People want to live healthy, long lives. That’s why all herbicides are being banned from our farmlands. Somehow we’ll manage without them. The fields are being “re-naturalized” through reforestation. Moreover, corn is being planted in order to produce biodiesel. Food will surely come from somewhere.

The climate problem and environmental protection can be easily solved simply by installing wind power plants, expanding photovoltaics and shutting down those coal and nuclear power plants. At the same time, people are protesting against wind turbines, power lines and new storage power stations for the sake of preserving the environment. Electricity will soon be used to charge the batteries in electric cars, produce hydrogen or, better yet, “liquid fuels” – something that should have been done a long time ago. No problemo!

The plastic in the oceans can be dealt with by banning plastic straws, and many “celebs” are campaigning against plastic waste on television. We simply dump our plastic waste free of charge in China in order to explain environmental protection to them. Wow!

Innovators like Elon Musk are promising a wonderful future: Mars flights, “hyperloops” and electric cars will revolutionize life. Just what everybody needs! Artificial intelligence will help – somehow. Air taxis are regarded by visionaries as a future means of transport because in five years’ time we’ll all be surely flying out and about in them. They’ll help us save the world!

Well, a few tiny problems persist. Germany’s railways have punctuality issues with their ICE (Intercity Express) fleet of high-speed trains. The opening of Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport was delayed by nine years in November 2020. There’s the “Stuttgart 21” railway project, the Hamburg opera house, and the Gorch Fock (tall ship) overhaul – all more than 10 times as expensive as estimated. The G36 light rifle shoots around street corners. German ammunition depots only have enough in reserve for one week at most. And the car industry is cheating on its reported 2003 to 2017 emissions figures. Replacement windows cost €10,000 each in public buildings. Refurbishing the federally sponsored swimming pools is taking a bit long at eight years, and big newspaper publishing houses are telling stories that have been completely invented as fact.

But even that’s very easy to get a grip on: The EU simply passes a regulation to ensure that cars produce almost 40% less CO2 from 2030 onward – problem solved! After all, star journalist Claas Relotius was fired. “DER SPIEGEL” magazine is doing proper reporting now. Starting today, Volkswagen is honest once again, as they declare that they only want to build electric cars. Starting today, the managing directors of Berlin Brandenburg Airport LLC are telling the truth as they assure us that the airport will open “by the end of the year”. All problems are solved! Wonderful, isn’t it?

The unemployment figures are as low as never before, and that just happens to always be the case prior to every election. Great!

This is what the “quality” press is reporting. It now boasts a “Fact Finder” that guarantees not to report false stories because it’s a “Fact Finder”, after all; and journalists who find facts can easily judge what is indeed a fact or what’s nonsense due to their excellent technical-mathematical training. Down with the fake news!

We simply ditch all our pesticides and everything’ll be solved! For centuries, farmers only wanted to support the chemical industry and poison the population and, of course, themselves, too. What morons!

You get the feeling that everyone in Germany nowadays carries the surname Baerbock, Habeck (Green politicians) or Longstocking. Mrs. Longstocking is, of course, a Swede, who, as Pippilotta Långstrump, is acting as a certain role model for her young audience.

And never has anyone ever come up with the idea of running transport vehicles in a vacuum before. Elon Musk is certainly the very, very first to do so; and fires have never existed in Australia before: Even 1,000 years ago, the Aborigines had boasted an army of volunteer firefighters who arrived immediately on the scene with their fire flappers and water-filled bladders – or was that an alien fire brigade? I’m not sure anymore.

This is the revision of a book that has not yet been published in the English language. It has been updated and restructured. The introduction was shortened, diagrams were added and, among other things, the chapters “Manipulation Instruments of a Democracy”, “Framing”, “Fact Finder” and “Press” added as well. Calculations were moved to the appendix, which is marked using curly brackets or braces {}. Examples of journalistic reporting are depicted in a magazine that sold fairy tales as facts, and there’s a glossary.

I hereby thank all those people who provided me with material and with constructive criticism. I also thank my Internet discussion partners who opened my eyes. Some “visions” were far beyond what I could have imagined myself as an engineer.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Evaluating the System

Opinion versus Facts

The Other Point of View

Statistics

Statistical Errors and Statistical Abuse

Imagination

Consequences

Physics, Technology and Math

Efficiency

The Last Percentages – Cutting Losses

Standards and Guidelines

Technical “Spoilsports”

Wind Turbines

Electric Scooters

Outer Space Transporters

Carbon Fiber Concrete

Elbow Pads and Citybike Frames

Summary of the “Spoilsports”

Perfection Mania

“The Good Old Days”

The Terrible New Times

Fashion – Perfecting the Body

Delusional Causes

Religions of the Modern World

Plastic Waste

Burning (Plastic) Materials

Consequences

“Side Effects”

Our Luxury Problem: Food and Toxin

Toxins in Food

Organic – What’s That?

Poison – What’s That?

Psychological Tricks and Manipulations

DDT – Modern Colonialism Included

The Good German Chlorine Chicken

Gene Food

“Superfoods”

Measuring and Detecting Poisons

Argument s

Energy and Supply

Systems

Unit of Energy

The Energy Requirement

Origins of Energy

Energy Demand of Humans

Society, “Devourer” of Fossil Energies

Germany’s Energy

Power Plant Types

Nuclear Power Plants

Coal and Gas Power Plants

Renewable Energies

Installed Power and L oad P eaks in Germany

Modern Energy Problems

Fossil Energy – Unanswered Questions

Population Density

Mobility

The Efficiency of Internal Combustion Engines

Electric Cars

Comparing Combustion Engines and E-Cars

Additional Power Plant Capacity for E-Cars

Hydrogen

Network Overload from Electric Cars?

Charging Stations

Positions of Professor Quaschning

Science and Faith

Conspiracy Theories and Their Parallels

Technical (Il)logic

Methods and Psychology of Conspiracy

Faith or Knowledge

Modellings

Limits of Knowledge

Knowledge of the Basics

Delusional Believers

Nuclear Power is Cheap. Safety makes it Expensive.

The Risk is Small, but Present.

Compromises

Compromises vs. Private Interests

Normal Insanity

Elon Musk

Flight to Mars

Starlink

Hyperloop

Electric Air Taxis

Japanese Trains

“Carbon Dioxide Fans”

Rezo’s “Evidence”

Green Counterproductivity

Nuclear Power Plants

Raccoons, Wolves, Beavers and Other Invasive Species

Dying Bees

Killing Weeds with Heated Steam

Grain, Corn and Organic Potatoes

“Renaturalization”

Australian Bushfires

Causes

Kant Sends His Regards

Self-Deception

The Modern Trade in Indulgences

Implementing Demands

Anti-Logical Psyche

Cognitive Dissonance

The Addiction to Conformity

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Backfire Effect

Secondary Effects

Creating Personal Truth

Opinion, Prejudice and Conviction

Affect Heuristics

Hand-Picked, Universally Valid Standards

“The Normals”

Normal Pathological Traits?

The Addiction to Please

Asia

Europe

Computers

Professorships

Shortage of Skilled Workers

Real Work

Non-Knowledge

Volkswagen (VW)

Planned or Unplanned Obsolescence

German Press Strategies

Manipulated Unemployment Figures

Expropriating the Elderly

Manipulation Instruments of a Democracy

Pseudo Solutions

“Coffin Nails”

The G36 Rifle

Fire Protection at Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)

Soft Skills Are Not Hard Skills

Insider of German politics

Education and Training

Education

The Education-Suicide Society

Official Denigration of Science Education

How Do You Come Up With These Ideas?

Dissemination

Lack of Frustration Tolerance

The Fun and Happiness Society

Analyses

If You Want It – Then Do It Skillfully!

The Circumstances

Smartphones and Computers

One-Dimensional System Analyses

Results of this Policy

Abuse of Education for Political Purposes

Anxiety-“Education” of the Germans

Germans “Democracy”

The Error Unculture

Politically Opportune Lies

Idealized Frauds?

Intelligence and Profession

Pigeonhole Arguments

Framing

Additional Communication Unculture

“Application Example”: A Discussion about CO2

The World of Politicians

The World of Journalists

Framing Manuals

Analysis of Journalistic Opinion Making

Examples of Journalistic Morality

Incompetence at its Finest

The “Fact Finder”s

Democratic Press Censorship

Summary

Calculations

Glossary

Quotes

Bibliography

Germany's Freefall

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