The longest step.
I don't want to talk about nuclear energy yet, but how we forget (and it also happened in Cernobbio) that the existence of neighboring industrial countries means that we shouldn't discuss industry without considering what others are doing. And what Germany intends to do to get out of the GAS crisis and EVEN fossil fuels is clear. Except that the Italian newspapers don't say it.
By the end of this year, Germany will equip itself with three gasifiers for methane, which only run on methane. But five are in the pipeline, and a sixth has been added for the end of next year.
The problem is that the other two manage BOTH methane and hydrogen (in mix), and the sixth can also work only with hydrogen.
This should raise some suspicions: is some secret maneuver by the German government underway? Not at all: the vision is absolutely clear: wasserstoff, or hydrogen.
So is there a secret strategy? A clever move that takes everyone by surprise? No.
It's all public:
https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/klimaschutz/wasserstoff-technologie-1732248
He was reading it: the German government's vision is to replace current sources with hydrogen.
That germany has a fetish for hydrogen has been known for years. Local railways multiply with trains running on hydrogen:
And there are subsidies to buy solar plants that store energy in the form of hydrogen, and then return it: 14,000 euros out of 35,000 in total cost.
That Germany is seeing hydrogen as a way out, which is why they do not intend to invest in new nuclear power anyway, some might even suspect.
And if the government also puts it on its website, you could just read it.
Reading, you could understand why Scholz went to Canada, the nation that produces more hydrogen in the world, instead of going to ask for methane in the USA.
Reading here and there, that is, one could suspect that Germany intends to focus on hydrogen. But one could also stop suspecting and reading, because the German government says it clearly: here, for example, it is saying that hydrogen professionals will begin to train in German schools, given that it is the future of the national energy strategy:
And it was no secret, given that even the ministry for the environment indicates hydrogen as THE strategy for the environmental respect of the future:
Let me be clear, the things that communicate with "bund" or those that end with "amt" are not just any idiot: they are ministries and / or federal government.
So, if you want to read the strategy in detail, where do you find it? But on the top-secret website of the German Ministry of Economy:
Obviously, on a page with the TOP SECRET name of “The national strategy on hydrogen”.
https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Publikationen/Energie/die-nationale-wasserstoffstrategie.html
Incredible, huh? Who would have thought of finding this top secret information there?
Gombloddo of germany! Secret plan!
Could the Italian press have noticed this? Well … yes. Mastrobuoni lives in Berlin, she may have noticed that the German government, from May to June, held a long series of meetings on the hydrogen strategy. In fact for a month they talked only about that.
Apparently not, but a regional newspaper article about farts seems more interesting. De gustobus.
Now, if you read (translate them) the sites that I have posted, you will notice many references to the European strategy for hydrogen. Which exists, and gives you a lot of money. Since European sites also exist in Italian, you can use google by yourself, I only help you with German.
However, the hydrogen thing is not a European thought, and it is not beyond Italian technological capabilities: ENI already has the technologies.
https://www.snam.it/it/energetic_transition/idrogenic/snam_e_idrogenic/
So in summary:
- There is a German strategy to replace methane with hydrogen, and use it intensively.
- There is a similar European strategy in everything.
- The advantage of a methane -> hydrogen transition is that part of the infrastructure is maintained and the chemical industry does not die. The transition is less dramatic.
- The second advantage is that in the case of “green” hydrogen energy can be stored from renewables, which are not continuous.
- In Italy we talk about nuclear power.
The fifth point is, at this point, inexplicable. Not only is the “hydrogen” discourse literally kept SECRET to the Italians (raise your hand if you have heard of these strategies), although it is absolutely public in the rest of Europe, but it is not even talked about in Cernobbio.
Now, I understand Calenda. It had to get attention and to get attention you bring out nuclear power. It's a project that causes strong emotions, so you end up in the papers. There is. However, the point is that:
- Calenda goes around saying that the energy of renewables is not conserved, and that it is discontinuous, but it is not true, it is made with hydrogen, and there is a European strategy in this regard.
- Calenda goes around making a bang talking about nuclear power, when there is a strategy of increasing renewables and the use of hydrogen, so that the transition is less brutal for industries.
And he would be fine, since his party needed visibility. But if we ask ourselves if this way of proceeding is also good for Italy, then no.
He was a clown with nuclear power, in the name of seriousness. He has forgotten one of the central pillars of the European strategy of transition towards renewables (renewables + green hydrogen) playing the part of the super-Europeanist. Is this good for Italy? No. But Calenda plays the part of the patriot.