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Re:Germany's Energy Catastrophe by LunaSea on Friday July 15, 2022 @02:51AM (#32105389)
Oh is that why Germany pressured the EU to qualify gas as "green" energy and block nuclear energy from getting the same qualification?
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Re:Germany's Energy Catastrophe by turbinerneiter on Friday July 15, 2022 @02:56AM (#32105419)
Except they didn't block that. Both sources are now qualified as green, gas however only as use for easing the transition.
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Re:Germany's Energy Catastrophe by LunaSea on Friday July 15, 2022 @04:07AM (#32105884)
That's why I wrote "pressured" and not "succeeded". They tried heavily.

Gas isn't a transition to anything.

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Re:Germany's Energy Catastrophe by VaxWithSex on Friday July 15, 2022 @03:03AM (#32105471)
They actually didn't.

New plants only qualify as "green investments" if and only if they can be used to burn electrolyzed hydrogen in the future.

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Re:Germany's Energy Catastrophe by LunaSea on Friday July 15, 2022 @04:06AM (#32105881)
Which also isn't "green" in any shape or form.
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Re:Germany's Energy Catastrophe by flohofwoe on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:33AM (#32106342)
It's as "green" as the electricity used for the hydrogen production. The idea is to use hydrogen as energy storage, produced from surplus wind and solar energy.
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