Gas is included because the German """green""" party has heavily lobbied for it. The Belgians """greens""" announced that its okay for them to use gas, because overall, in Europe, other countries will offset it. Greenpeace lobbies for it because they, themselves, sell gas. Nuclear had to be defended tooth and nail for over a year, with active rejection from the Germans for its inclusion in that list.
Exactly this. Including gas as green energy looks like a joke. Even 270g of CO2 per kWh is an awful number. No idea if that's lobbyists work but "if you have no idea what something is about, then it is about the money".
This is the untruth. The German Green Party has never done this. The current Green government has clearly opposed it. The Green government in Austria also opposes it.
It's weird how the risk of another Fukushima was successfully downplayed so much.
Obviously it's the sole world leader with a PhD in nuclear physics who is only one miscalculated the costs and risks. /s
Obviously the fact that 0 insurers would touch a nuclear plant without pushing liability for 99% of the cleanup costs onto the taxpayer doesnt mean it's not 100% safe. Right?
If the US nuclear industry's aging plants really were getting safer like they claim wouldnt they be happy to prove it by raising their liability cap a little bit above 0.1% of the cost of fukushima?
If you want to change thing you need to stay realistic.
For example only very clean gas power plants are included.
Through I can't deny that the German Green party is kind a joke.
They have been founded a movement heavily manipulated by the DDR to destabilize the BRD. Which is where their absolute-no to nuclear comes from (through most, probably ask nuclear plants in Germany are older less safe designs which IMHO should be shut down, there are other things too).
They have for years tolerated, sometimes supported certain groups of people for votes. Exactly this groups which are now one of the driving forces behind "unreasonable" anti-vax movements.
They have multiple times shown they are quite a bit affected by corrup (but potential legal) lobbyism.
They are known to sometime push idiologic things which aren't fully thought out. Which in the first view might look good, but if you look into it they have the opposite effect on the larger picture or other major negative effects outwighting any benefits.
Green parties across Europe are a pathetic joke.