03-15-2011, 10:16 AM
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Natural gas as a bridging technology
Therefore, we need a bridge technology, but not nuclear power, but the risk-and low-emission fuel source should be natural gas: Here we have for many decades, sufficient resources (for the total worldwide potential is of conventional natural gas, according to the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources at 466 Terakubikmetern ), with Russia a long-term, predictable suppliers (even in the height of the cold war) and also additional resources from Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Iraq (Kurdistan) and later Iran. So we have a considerable scope for diversification of natural gas (as opposed to one hundred percent dependent on imports of uranium), which the EU should press ahead with a clear commitment to the Nabucco pipeline quickly and decisively.
In addition, as the world market increased liquefied natural gas (LNG) from North Africa and the Persian Gulf are available, not to mention the enormous resources at the "unconventional gas" such as shale gas, in which the gas in coal beds, porous sand layers or undersea methane hydrates geological storage, which has revolutionized the power supply in the U.S. and Canada already.
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The gas technology is known, controlled and cautious, so it is the ideal backbone for the development of renewable energies. The modern gas-fired power plants can rapidly and flexibly to the power fluctuations, such as wind and solar energy to adapt.
And in the future it will be possible from renewable sources by electrolysis to produce hydrogen. In a second step, from the hydrogen and carbon dioxide, methane, formed the main component of conventional natural gas. This can solve the storage problem of renewable energy sources and use the existing natural gas infrastructure. This complements the natural expansion of renewable energies.
The alternatives to a life extensions are not, as we were told last year, unrealistic and uncompetitive mills romantic, but an energy strategy that rests on the pillars of development of renewable energy, efficiency, network development and gas.
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http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutsc...751036,00.html |
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