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0 points0xy3y ago0 comments

If emissions are reduced, emissions are not zero. That's the fundamental lie.

>Peaker plants are not baseload power

Not according to reality. [1] Gas has been producing consistently on a daily basis for over a year in Germany. Natural gas is used to prop up baseload generation in Germany and practically every region it's used.

[1] https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electric...

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credit_guy3y ago

> If emissions are reduced, emissions are not zero. That's the fundamental lie.

What are you trying to say here? That reducing emissions is not good? That only 100% reduction is good and anything less is bad? That's quite a strange point of view to have.

0xyOP3y ago

If you market a product as renewable it is absolutely an egregious lie to forget to mention that the product requires the construction of gas plants which are not renewable.

Wind and solar are marketed and sold as emission-free. Meanwhile, while countries pat themselves on the back, they're building brand new gas plants.

'Renewables + gas' is not even close to emissions-free, especially not when Germany has gas plants firing literally 24 hours a day for the last year or more.

loufe3y ago

This is willfully ignorant. Yes it has been used, but that was not its design function. I'm not justifying its use, but it's unfair to qualify it as de jure baseload when in reality it may be temporarily de facto base load.

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