Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy
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Re: Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy
#2About time. Nuclear is hardly an environmental risk even compared to the "cleaner" fossil fuels like gas.
Hopefully this will allow the EU to return to competitive reactors designs instead of leaving China to pull humanities weight on that front.
Though tbh I wouldn't be sad if we bought Chinese reactors until we are back up to speed, having Chinese nuclear > no nuclear. Everyone bitching about China stealing IP finally have something to steal back.
Re: Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy
#3About time. Nuclear is hardly an environmental risk even compared to the "cleaner" fossil fuels like gas. Hopefully this will allow the EU to return to competitive reactors designs instead of leaving China to pull humanities weight on that front. Though tbh I wouldn't be sad if we bought Chinese reactors until we are back up to speed, having Chinese nuclear > no nuclear. Everyone bitching about China stealing IP fina…
Funny that the real title is:
>>Gas and Nuclear Turn Green as EU Parliament Approves New Taxonomy
>>On the contrary, natural gas does emit greenhouse gas emissions, however, supporters claim it is less polluting than traditional fossil fuels and can thus be part of the energy transition.
So less pollution then heavy oil is now "green" in Europe....bravo, thank you Germany.
Re: Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy
#4Please restore the full title.
It is truncated, as noticed by an other comment.
Re: Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy
#5About time. Nuclear is hardly an environmental risk even compared to the "cleaner" fossil fuels like gas. Hopefully this will allow the EU to return to competitive reactors designs instead of leaving China to pull humanities weight on that front. Though tbh I wouldn't be sad if we bought Chinese reactors until we are back up to speed, having Chinese nuclear > no nuclear. Everyone bitching about China stealing IP fina…
Strong disagree and just won't help besides fantasies. Lets not dig into the other mess again just because we never went and always deferred starting to do the right thing already 30 years back and now say: nuclear is the only way out.
It isn't, it would be too late anyway, it will not scale to the world's power needs, it will cost too much.. and I just haven' touched the usual downsides of nuclear.
Even some nuclear operators start seeing it this way now already..
Re: Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy
#6It’s about four decades too late to help anything.
Re: Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy
#7About time. Nuclear is hardly an environmental risk even compared to the "cleaner" fossil fuels like gas. Hopefully this will allow the EU to return to competitive reactors designs instead of leaving China to pull humanities weight on that front. Though tbh I wouldn't be sad if we bought Chinese reactors until we are back up to speed, having Chinese nuclear > no nuclear. Everyone bitching about China stealing IP fina…
Funny that the real title is: >>Gas and Nuclear Turn Green as EU Parliament Approves New Taxonomy >>On the contrary, natural gas does emit greenhouse gas emissions, however, supporters claim it is less polluting than traditional fossil fuels and can thus be part of the energy transition. So less pollution then heavy oil is now "green" in Europe....bravo, thank you Germany.
Natural gas emits radically less CO2 than coal, which is why this is entirely necessary during the transition (Germany is now bruning coal to compensate for the Russian war).
Gas emits so little CO2 compared to coal that it actually accounted for ONE THIRD of the drop in U.S. emissions from 2005 - 2016: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-us-carbon-emissions....
Re: Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy
#8Thanks EU for making everything worse for no reason. Can't they just invent their own label.
Gas likely is better than Germany still burning tons of coal every day for energy but it's not green.
That's just sad really
Re: Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy
#9Thanks EU for making everything worse for no reason. Can't they just invent their own label. Gas likely is better than Germany still burning tons of coal every day for energy but it's not green. That's just sad really
The point of the label is not that it's green or blue or whatever nature-friendly color.
The point is to direct and strongly favor investments in less worse energy production sources.
We're only sadly at a point where even some gas energy usage is a less worse option than no gas at all (because then, coal would be used instead).
Re: Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny that the real title is: >>Gas and Nuclear Turn Green as EU Parliament Approves New Taxonomy >>On the contrary, natural gas does emit greenhouse gas emissions, however, supporters claim it is less polluting than traditional fossil fuels and can thus be part of the energy transition. So less pollution then heavy oil is now "green" in Europe....bravo, thank you Germany.
Natural gas emits radically less CO2 than coal, which is why this is entirely necessary during the transition (Germany is now bruning coal to compensate for the Russian war). Gas emits so little CO2 compared to coal that it actually accounted for ONE THIRD of the drop in U.S. emissions from 2005 - 2016: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-us-carbon-emissions... .
> The extraction and consumption of natural gas is a major and growing contributor to climate change. Both the gas itself (specifically methane) and carbon dioxide, which is released when natural gas is burned, are greenhouse gases. When burned for heat or electricity, natural gas emits fewer toxic air pollutants, less carbon dioxide, and almost no particulate matter compared to other fossil and biomass fuels. However, gas venting and flaring, along with unintended fugitive emissions throughout the supply chain, can result in natural gas having a similar carbon footprint to other fossil fuels overall.