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Germany, a major player in the fight against climate change, has poured $440 million into what it calls the "largest national energy transition in history"but it hasn't been able to pull the plug on the projects that were supposed to make that happen, the Local reports.
Among the projects in the works: a glass factory that would melt sand by using electricity rather than oil, an energy grid that could handle wind power, and fiber optic cables that store heat to reduce power consumption.
"For research development, you can't know if it pays off," says Michael Pahle, a member of the steering committee for one of the Ariadne consortium projects.
"This is exactly the opposite of what we want."
One of the projects, Ariadne, was essentially a social science experiment that helped German politicians understand whether certain energy measures were politically viable.
"The idea behind it is brilliant, but they don't perform as effectively as it should," says biologist and science journalist Frank Schweikert.
One of the projects, DisConMelter, was supposed to be up and running by 2020.
Instead, it's still years away.
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