ᐅ Gas Prices – Where Is Gas Still Affordable?

motorradsilke schrieb:

Because, as with everything, it depends on the quantity.

You are absolutely right. Currently, Germany’s timber consumption is about twice as high as it should be.

Actually, this entire discussion about wood is unnecessary: We need to reach net zero CO2 within the next 10 to 30 years (there are different levels of acceptance here...). Within that timeframe, it’s not possible if we burn wood. What we define as "sustainable" afterward and how we ration wood can be considered later.

Deliverer schrieb:

You are absolutely right. Currently, Germany’s wood consumption is about twice as high as it should be.

How do you determine what it should be based on? The wood consumption or the CO2 emissions?

But if you are so strongly against burning wood, please name some alternatives that are available in the short term.

motorradsilke schrieb:

How do you determine that it should be fixed?

Based on a study published last week on this topic.

motorradsilke schrieb:

Can you name some alternatives that are available on short notice?

I mentioned the alternative to the original poster a few pages earlier.

Lars Kanopke schrieb:

Now the question still remains unresolved, of course...

We already addressed that six pages ago. The question is NOT unresolved.

i_b_n_a_n schrieb:

There are now sufficient technical options for fully renewable supply (yes, 100%) to solve the base load and peak load issues. It would only require genuine political will to enforce this against the legislation corrupted by lobbyists. Unfortunately, time is getting tight due to procrastinators, skeptics, and blockers 🙄

Until a few months ago, the energy transition was planned with 40 new gas power plants to be built. Only with these as a reserve would it have been feasible. It should be clear by now that gas will no longer be an option, right? That means the transition as planned has already failed.

Electricity accounts for about 20% of the total energy demand in this country. Currently, we can generate around 8% of that from renewable energy sources. So we are not short by a factor of 2 but by about 10, considering the additional demand from heat pumps and electric vehicles, which add roughly a factor of 5. However, the marginal benefit will decrease with each additional percentage point—achieving every further percent will become increasingly more expensive than the last.

Regarding the “solving base load and peak load problems,” you should discuss this with a neutral engineer rather than agenda-driven politicians, sociologists, environmental scientists, PowerPoint acrobats, and other know-it-alls. It would also be best to have someone explain how, after 10 years, less than 1,000 km of the over 10,000 km of new required (yes, not optional. Required!) high-voltage transmission lines have been built. And that is just one of the fundamental essentials which has completely gotten out of control.