Actual headline: “Corrupt conservatives cement fossil fuel dependency for their donors under a pretense”
They pretend that those gas power stations are needed, then sabotage renewable upbuild and grid improvements while blocking storage to create that scenario in the first place.
Also they will justify the price increases (flowing right into the pcoket of fossil fuel producers) somehow as costs caused by renewables…Couldnt have said it better
There’s an argument that gas peaker plants are useful, if only to shut the “what if it’s cloudy and there’s no wind” dickheads up, but renewables should come first.
That might be an argument if you are sane and actually building up renewables and storage.
But for a government that spends its time sabotaging renewables and blocking storage (in fact the whole definition of energy security and why gas peakers are the only option was written directly by an energy company for their corrupt puppet of a minister) it is just a pretense.
And batteries second.
Absolutely.
It’s always with the gas in Germany, ja? Ok poor joke.
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Let’s not forget that Germany already has like 3x its peak consumption in installed renewable capacity.
What abandoning nuclear does to a mofo.
This is a controversial topic but nuclear is absolutely not the way forward.
Compared to renewables, nuclear is expensive, will get even more expensive due to a very limited supply of pure uranium, has issues with safe long-term storage of radioactive byproducts and the potential to melt down comes with terrible consequences to the environment. Yes, it produces the same power day and night.
But - we live in the 21st century. We have microchips, the Internet and plenty of ways to collect and store energy. No, it’s not as easy as a power plant that goes brrrrr 24/7, but building up a smart power grid is absolutely possible with our current tech.
With rooftop and balcony solar, we have finally found a way for people to decentrally generate (or even store) their own or their neighbors’ energy.
Yet, nuclear fission to heat up water to spin a turbine is still being flaunted as the future by some people. Makes no sense to me.
And, at a deeper level, what you get when your political movement (German environmentalists, in this case) opposes everything and recommends nothing.
Is there more information about how much cover is needed? The article is very poor in content imo.
Germany must to go the path of China, the world’s largest CO2 emitter. According to the country’s latest five-year plan, Beijing seeks to expand domestic gas production and increase storage and shipping capacity, making it clear that gas is set to be a key part of China’s energy consumption for years to come.
Also, in a little more than a decade, China has risen from being a minor player to becoming the world’s largest consumer of imported natural gas. It’s important that Germany and the rest of Europe isn’t sleepwalking into the same direction in my opinion.
Germany has 80 million people, China 1.400 millions. The per-capita consumption of Germany is still much higher. Chinas energy production is rapidly growing, and the share of renewable energy in it is growing as well.
Moreover, Germany is the largest economy in the world’s largest democratic economic bloc, since the US objectively ceased to be democratic. So, Germany and the EU have the duty to show that they can do better. “We had democratic governments but they had to serve the short-term interest of capitalist megscorporations” will not sound like a good excuse to our grandchilds when they have to live on a devastated earth.
