The President
of the German
Bundesamt für
Bevölkerungsschutz
und Katastrophenhilfe
(Federal Office for Civil Protection
and Disaster Relief, or BKK)
is calling on citizens,
government offices and
companies to be prepared
for widespread blackouts.
BBK President Christoph Unger
warned In an interview with
German national daily Die Welt,
that in the future Germany
faced higher probabilities
of natural disasters
arising from climate change,
such as droughts, heat waves
and flooding, but said
his greatest concern
was a power outage.
Past global warming
has NOT brought
higher rates of
natural disasters
to this planet.
That claim is nonsense
-- wild guess speculation.
But with the increasing use
of sporadic renewable energy,
a power outage becomes
more likely.
Already happened in Australia.
“After 24 hours
without electricity
we would have
catastrophic conditions,”
Unger told Die Welt.
Christoph Unger tried to
mislead by talking about
cyber attacks.
Much more important,
and much more likely,
is an unstable electric grid.
Unger told Die Welt:
“The German Federal Grid Agency
is having to intervene more and more
frequently in order to compensate
for grid fluctuations.”
The German DWN
reported in June 2019:
"Europe’s electricity grid
faced multiple collapses”
and grid frequency
in Germany had
“plummeted several times
to such an extent that
Europe’s entire power grid
had been endangered.”
Some aluminum mills
had to be taken offline.
Unger told Die Welt that
citizens needed to keep
“candles and matches”
and always have a
“battery-powered radio
on hand in order to be able
to receive news even when
the power is out.”
“Every household
should have
a supply of food
and drinking water.”
Unger told Die Welt
that government offices
and companies to
ask themselves:
“Is there enough
diesel fuel on hand
to power an emergency
back-up generator? "
Where will the diesel come from
when the electricity has not yet
returned after two days,
but the back-up generators
have to continue running
and diesel can only
be pumped from
the tank farms
with electric pumps?”
Fossil fueled
back-up generators
to the rescue !