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Re:Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-pol... by edhelas on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:32AM (#27959830)
Don't worry, they are planning to turn off coal completely around 2035… and replace them with natural gas plants imported from Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream
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Re:Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-pol... by imtringued on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @06:58AM (#27982399)
Natural gas will cut emissions in half and the new plans for the coal exit are going to be 2030.
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Re:Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-pol... by glogla on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:29AM (#27960645)
Yeah, improving nothing as natural gas has similar OC2e to coal (with much smaller CO2 - but the methane makes up for it, to it comes up the same), while giving money to Europe's enemies. Perfect.
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Re:Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-pol... by merpnderp on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:23AM (#27960542)
It's not like Russia has a long history of having "pipeline malfunctions" during periods of intense international disagreements. What could go wrong with Germans being firmly under the thumb of Putin or his successor?
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