Greenhouse gases rise as Germany burns coal
Published: 26 Feb 13 07:05 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/money/20130226-48189.html
Germany saw increased emissions in greenhouse gases last year due to more coal and gas usage while the country seeks to develop its renewable energy sources, according to the Federal Environment Agency.
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"Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany increased slightly in 2012 by 1.6 percent," it said in a written statement.
"More coal was burned to generate electricity and more gas was used to heat homes, due to the weather," it added. "The development of renewable energies abated the emissions' increase however."
After the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, Germany embarked on an ambitious "energy revolution," deciding to phase out its nuclear power plants by the end of 2022 and bolster renewable sources of energy such as solar and wind power.
But concerns have mounted that this would entail a sharp rise in electricity prices amid difficulties in building a network able to transmit energy from the North Sea coast to the energy-hungry south of the country.
The agency's president Jochen Flasbarth said fears that the nuclear exit would spark far greater greenhouse gas emissions had not happened "because, above all, the further development of renewable energies has countered it."
"However, the trend of again converting more coal into electricity worries me," he added in the statement.
Germany said that despite the slight increase in emissions in 2012, it had more than met the targets agreed under the Kyoto Protocol, with its greenhouse gas emissions having fallen by 25.5 percent compared to 1990.
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(Of course, he probably said it in French.)
Of course power generators will emit more greenhouse gases as shown in the photo.
You will also get water vapour and steam off the bathtubs of the homes who still have heating in an energy-restricted country. CO2 is an invisible, non-toxic gas that is a basic necessity for photosynthesis at the bottom of the food chain for everything that lives on this planet.
It's not "Energiewende"; it's "EnergieABwende".
"Where does the energy come from? French nuclear power plants on the German border of course."
Whilst bowing to your superior knowledge, according to Bloomberg.. "For the first year ever, France was a net importer of power from its neighbor every month in 2012 as German solar output more than doubled."
"Hollande Draws French Industry Ire as Nuclear Edge Fades." http://tinyurl.com/afk7g5z
It is much better then the government stealing your money to subsidize solar power, wind and electric cars. It about your communist and socialists governments (you don't have real conservatives; only make-believe ones) controlling you, your liberty and your property.
Serfs!
"It is much better then the government stealing your money to subsidize solar power, wind.".. I'd be interested if you can show me an instance where nuclear power generation isn't in some way or another underwritten from the public purse.
It is not like uranium fuel for nuke plants occurs naturally in nature, and spent fuel has a half life way longer than humans half walked upright.