Talk:January–March 2023 in science

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Improper synthesis?

Hello. I added an "improper synthesis?" tag (WP:SYNTH) to the following paragraph:

3 March – After a study (31 Jan) indicated that in building heating in the EU, the feasibility of staying within planetary boundaries is possible only through electrification, with green hydrogen heating being 2–3 times more expensive than heat pump costs,[337][338] a study indicates that replacing gas boilers with heat pumps is the fastest way to cut German gas consumption,[339] despite "gas-industry lobbyists and [...] politicians" at the time making "the case for hydrogen" amid some HT [de] policy changes,[337] for which the former study revealed a need to "mitigate increased costs for [many of the] consumers".[338]

WP:SYNTH says: "Do not combine material from multiple sources to state or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources."

In this paragraph we combine a study about the high cost of green hydrogen heating with a study about natural gas consumption in Germany during a period of high prices (due to the war in Ukraine and Germany's dependency on Russian natural gas). And we make this combination a noteworthy "March 2023 event in science", which I think is editorial synthesis of published material.

Natural gas and green hydrogen are not the same thing. Their cost is generally very different despite the particular tribulations of Germany under their specific circunstances during a particular period. AwerDiWeGo (talk) 14:33, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]