• JelleWho
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    -13 months ago

    Wasn’t Germany that weird one where ‘gas’ was labeled as ‘renewable’? Or was that something diffrent?

      • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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        13 months ago

        Depends on whether you grow crops specifically to turn into fuel or ferment waste that would otherwise ferment in the open.

        The main point on the European level revolved around whether construction of gas plants should get access to some green fund or the other, to which the answer is yes because they’ll always carry some on-demand load, and seasonal storage is bound to include syngas because we’ll need that stuff anyway as chemical feedstock.

    • @DrunkenPirate@feddit.org
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      3 months ago

      No, that was France labeling Nuclear as Renewable. Because, because it doesn’t emit CO2, I guess. Don’t know what „Re-New“ translates into French and I‘d be surprised if it is „Split Atoms“.

      • @Miaou@jlai.lu
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        23 months ago

        Fuck off, France did this in reaction to Germany trying to pass gas as green (not renewable!)

    • @Miaou@jlai.lu
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      -13 months ago

      No, worse, they labeled it as green. Naziland never fails to be on the wrong side of history

    • @daddy32@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Yes it was, but I can’t find the sources now. It was some time after the recent invasion of Ukraine by the eastern hordes; titles were something like "Germany reclasified natural gas as renewable’. My memory fails me, so it may have been different gas and different purpose than electricity. Anyway, it came as a very poor taste.

      In other news, Germany imports quite some percentage of its electricity from other countries, like nuclear-produced electricity from France. So, in a sense and to a degree, it outsources the emissions to other countries.

      Edit: sources of both claims below.

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        In other news, Germany imports quite some percentage of its electricity from other countries, like nuclear-produced electricity from France. So, in a sense and to a degree, it outsources the emissions to other countries.

        That is simply not true. You might get an update of the actual state of energy production AND imports vs exports here: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/03/germany-hits-62-7-renewables-in-2024-energy-mix-with-solar-contributing-14/

        My memory fails me, so it may have been different gas and different purpose than electricity. Anyway, it came as a very poor taste.

        Even this is not true or just blabla at least. It’s Biogas, gas made out of animals poo, plants and other degradable things.

        I strongly suggest that you either check sources before posting a comment. Or just stay quite instead „there was something I heard somewhere…“