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Stop Structural Change! Hydrogen Won’t Save Us! – Video Recording of the District Council Committee Meeting on September 8, 2025, Burgenlandkreis at MIBRAGOn September 8, 2025, the District Council Committee meeting on the topic of structural change – specifically hydrogen – took place. The findings should raise some eyebrows. After a discussion and a break for consultation on whether a video recording of this public meeting was allowed, the agenda item on MIBRAG’s future projects was removed. While MIBRAG had planned to speak about future projects in this public session, the ideas and projects that were meant to be shared with the public apparently were not supposed to reach the broader public after all. The Evil CO2 and Structural ChangeThe media explain to us every day how evil CO2 is. I’ve already addressed this several times. So here, just a few bare numbers once again.There are about 400 ppm of CO2 in the air, meaning 400 CO2 molecules per 1 million air molecules. Of these 400 ppm, 97 percent come from nature. That equals 388 ppm. That’s the “good” CO2, which supposedly has nothing to do with climate change. The human-caused “bad” CO2 makes up just 3 percent or 12 ppm – that’s 12 CO2 molecules within one million air molecules. Germany’s share of these allegedly climate-change-causing 12 molecules is barely 1.7 percent. That corresponds to about 0.2 ppm – or in other words: 1 CO2 molecule out of 5 million air molecules. And as we hear daily from the media, even these 0.2 ppm of German CO2 are supposedly far too much, since they, together with the rest of the 12 ppm, are said to be causing global warming. Therefore, it is important to the much-beloved politicians to remove this one CO2 molecule out of 5 million air molecules from the atmosphere. Only then will the world’s climate be saved! And we citizens are to pay for this through taxes, levies, job losses, and loss of prosperity. That is why structural change was initiated. Structural Change and HydrogenIn order to reach the goal of decarbonization (removing that one CO2 molecule out of 5 million), the use of domestic lignite, and in the future also gas and oil, is to be abandoned. Energy should increasingly be generated only from wind and sun. The problem, however, is storing this electricity – assuming enough of it can even be produced within German territory.Hydrogen is seen as the solution. At least in theory. Anyone watching the District Council Committee meeting might have an eye-opening moment. For one, projects to build a CO2 pipeline network in Central Germany are progressing only sluggishly. Burgenlandkreis itself also plans to establish such a network. The price tag: a modest 50 million euros. But is Hydrogen Really the Solution?The answer is likely no. Both Wilmar Kabisch (CDU) and Sven Jähnig (AfD) pointed to problems facing Germany nationwide. Over 70 gas power plants are supposed to be built, after the government realized that electricity production also has to be secured during dark doldrums. These plants are to run on natural gas at first, and later on hydrogen. But the question is: will there even be enough hydrogen?Sven Jähnig noted that 75 percent of the hydrogen Germany would need would have to be imported. Germany itself could only produce about 25 percent of its demand. Inevitably, the question arises: where will other countries – if they pursue energy transition the same way Germany does – import their own missing 75 percent of hydrogen from? Also worth recalling: the project for green district heating in Hohenmölsen. The planning showed that sun and wind could only cover about 25 percent of heating needs. That would be the energy needed during the warmer months from May to September, when it’s only about hot water. For the rest of the year, instead of lignite, substitute fuels based on plastic or wood pellets are to be burned. That doesn’t sound particularly green. Hydrogen Production by MIBRAGThe question posed to MIBRAG was how its hydrogen production was progressing. The answer: MIBRAG has such a project underway and will continue with it. There are apparently also interested buyers for green hydrogen, but they don’t want to pay the prices it costs. Gray hydrogen (mostly produced from natural gas) is cheaper.Nevertheless, committee chairwoman Elke Simon-Kuch (CDU) tried to bring into the discussion how small and medium-sized businesses might be able to include hydrogen in their energy supply. Stop Structural ChangeThese two facts alone should really mean stopping structural change as it is being carried out. The big story of Germany’s autarkic energy supply is not achievable. Critics of the energy transition have been saying this for a long time. Only politics doesn’t want to hear it. It reminds me of the saying from the GDR: “Neither ox nor donkey can stop socialism in its stride!” – until socialism collapsed, because the idea simply didn’t work.The question is when the insight will finally get through to politics that structural change should be stopped, and that we should continue to rely on the energy sources that enabled prosperity in the first place. That was, among others, lignite, but also cheap oil and gas – including from Russia. Countries like China and India still do this, and they managed and continue to manage to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. Energy must be affordable in order for Germany as a business location to remain internationally competitive. The German government, however, sees things differently. The Necessary Impulse from BelowThe question is whether the necessary impulses for a turnaround in the energy transition really have to come from below – and whether they will. For example, that regional politics communicates upwards with urgency that this energy transition will not work as it is. But what one hears so far is that people are more or less looking forward to the “challenges” (problems) that are to be solved – if they can even be solved.It seems that regional politics blindly follows the dictates from above – without questioning, without independent thought, and with eyes fixed only on the subsidies for structural change. Watch the VideoWho said what can be seen in the video above. I managed to push through so that the video recording could be made.Author: AI-Translation - Michael Thurm | |
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