<story><title>G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/02/g7-nations-committing-billions-more-to-fossil-fuel-than-green-energy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbmuser</author><text>“Green energy” needs fossile fuels such as natural gas as backup power plants.&lt;p&gt;If you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions effectively, you must support nuclear power.&lt;p&gt;France went the nuclear path and their energy sector causes 50 million tons of CO2 per year.&lt;p&gt;Germany went the renewable path and their annual energy sector emissions are about 300 million tons of CO2.&lt;p&gt;They were a bit less in both countries due to Covid-19 causing shutdowns of industries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KozmoNau7</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Germany went the renewable path and their annual energy sector emissions are about 300 million tons of CO2.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Not really. They held on hard to gas and coal power. Of the latter, a disturbing amount is still based on lignite or brown coal, which is more accurately described as &amp;quot;somewhat combustible dirt&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Germany is not nearly as dedicated to green energy as they would like the world to think. They shut down their nuclear sector due to fear, and primarily replaced it with more fossil energy.&lt;p&gt;I do agree that nuclear power is something we should be more positive towards, but that does not invalidate renewable energy sources.</text></comment>
<story><title>G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/02/g7-nations-committing-billions-more-to-fossil-fuel-than-green-energy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbmuser</author><text>“Green energy” needs fossile fuels such as natural gas as backup power plants.&lt;p&gt;If you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions effectively, you must support nuclear power.&lt;p&gt;France went the nuclear path and their energy sector causes 50 million tons of CO2 per year.&lt;p&gt;Germany went the renewable path and their annual energy sector emissions are about 300 million tons of CO2.&lt;p&gt;They were a bit less in both countries due to Covid-19 causing shutdowns of industries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j_wtf_all_taken</author><text>&amp;gt; If you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions effectively, you must support nuclear power.&lt;p&gt;Very strong statement but no evidence whatsoever.&lt;p&gt;Germany&amp;#x27;s a bad example, we&amp;#x27;re (that is: the government during the last 16 years) doing a lot to keep really old crappy coal power plants running and slow the transformation towards renewables. And still, 50% of the electricity is produced by renewables.</text></comment>