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Germany to build new gas power stations as cover for wind and solar (dpa-international.com)
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[-] Ooops@feddit.org 14 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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...

[-] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 14 hours ago

Couldnt have said it better

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 0 points 11 hours ago

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.

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 3 points 5 hours ago

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.

[-] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 10 hours ago

And batteries second.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 2 points 10 hours ago

Absolutely.

[-] myyass@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

It's always with the gas in Germany, ja? Ok poor joke.

[-] sbrodolino_21@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago

Let's not forget that Germany already has like 3x its peak consumption in installed renewable capacity.

What abandoning nuclear does to a mofo.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

And, at a deeper level, what you get when your political movement (German environmentalists, in this case) opposes everything and recommends nothing.

[-] tardigrade@scribe.disroot.org 0 points 14 hours ago

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.

[-] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago

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.

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