Former Croatian Minister of Economy, Labor and Entrepreneurship Davor Stern said today that the issue of lithium decomposition and disposal of harmful products that remain after it has not yet been resolved, and compared it to the remnants of spent uranium from nuclear power plants.
At the Core Days conference as part of the panel dedicated to energy, he said that oil and gas are actually renewable energy sources and that the transition to the so-called green energy is not possible until the end, adding that consumers will be the biggest victims of the green transition.
Stern, who is also an oil and gas entrepreneur, believes that these two energy sources are products of magma in the interior of our planet and should therefore be viewed as renewable.
He does not see the possibility of a complete transition to electric cars, and notes that wind farms are also subject to processes that involve high energy consumption.
“At night there is no electricity, and if there is no wind there is no energy,” Stern explained.
Economist and economic expert Goran Radosavljevic pointed out that if there is no energy, there is no growth and development, and there is not enough energy for everyone to develop evenly.
He said that we should strive to make the transition to renewable energy sources by 2050 and that until then it is up to Europe to consider what it will be more dependent on, gas or nuclear energy, and there is not enough of either.
The mayor of the Albanian city of Cologne, known for its environmental standards, Erion Isai, pointed out that two things are a prerequisite for the implementation of the green agenda – money and education.
He pointed out that 2030 is crucial for Albania, by which time all green energy should be produced for the needs of the country, and then expanded.