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The gas is clean and a fantastic bridge energy source until we ramp up renewables. Instead we will now import: 1) overprices, extremly dirty American fracking
by 88840-8855 4y ago
The gas is clean and a fantastic bridge energy source until we ramp up renewables.
Instead we will now import:
1) overprices, extremly dirty American fracking gas - that might lead to unrests in the US if the price is increasing further
2) LNG from Qatar, just another bad state with a long track of terrorism support and human rights violations
But for some reason 1 + 2 are OK now.
- sofixa 4y ago> The gas is clean You cannot be serious. Gas is a fossil fuel that emits CO2, huge amounts of it. Germany's overreliance on gas is among the reasons why their CO2/KWh is multiple times that of neighbouring countries (bar Poland who are still on coal). And a fully renewable grid will be too unstable without significant storage. Are there plans in Germany for that?
- sgjohnson 4y agoGermany actually fucked itself on the energy front, by opposing nuclear.