Power down and out in Berlin
It looks like there’s a new twist to German plans to bury their excess CO2 when nobody else is looking and no one really is looking all that close if you ask me.
The new twist seems to be that piping their hot air underground was more of a pipe dream than anything else and won’t wirklich (really) work so they’ll just begin shutting down some of their coal-burning power plants this summer instead, in old-fashioned American-style rolling blackout fashion, and get rid of even more CO2 than they were not getting rid of before by not creating it in the first place.
That half of Germany’s electricity is produced with coal is bad enough, I guess, but that they won’t even be able to pump the CO2 created in the process into some super cool secret underground repository for future generations to let out into the atmosphere later when they need to is, well, that’s even worse, I think.
Give me warp power, Scotty.
The new twist seems to be that piping their hot air underground was more of a pipe dream than anything else and won’t wirklich (really) work so they’ll just begin shutting down some of their coal-burning power plants this summer instead, in old-fashioned American-style rolling blackout fashion, and get rid of even more CO2 than they were not getting rid of before by not creating it in the first place.
That half of Germany’s electricity is produced with coal is bad enough, I guess, but that they won’t even be able to pump the CO2 created in the process into some super cool secret underground repository for future generations to let out into the atmosphere later when they need to is, well, that’s even worse, I think.
Give me warp power, Scotty.
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