Hear me out.Trump called out #Germany, South #Korea, and Japan, for not willing to help with the Strait of Hormuz. What do these nations have in common? They are where we have the largest standing military presence outside the US.I think #Trump i...
#France, Britain, Italy, #China, #Greece and Japan followed #Germany in rejecting Trump's call for military support in the Strait of Hormuz, the Financial Times reported.• Prime Minister #Starmer said Britain would take measures to protect its al...
Wow, who would have expected a Dunkelflaute in March? But here it is:
#Germany - the "energy transformation leader with the most renewables in Europe" - 604 gCO2eq/kWh
#Poland - old coal baseline country that is heavily investing in wind and building its first nuclear power plant - 582 gCO2eq/kWh
#France - the hopeless case of old, legacy #nuclear that has "no future" and "contributes nothing to decarbonisation" (literal quotes) - 38 gCO2eq/kWh
It's not a typo, the last number is really "28", that is 16x less than the first number. And the whole point of #decarbonisation is to emit less CO2.
Electricity generation today 16:15 GMT
#Germany 535 gCO2eq/kWh
#Poland 553 gCO2eq/kWh
#France 28 gCO2eq/kWh
Such a puzzling situation, what could be the difference between these three European countries? Almost like there was some magic ingredient in their energy mix...