Merkel calls the extension a "bridge" until renewable sources of energy such as wind and solar power can produce more of Germany's power as it seeks to reduce dependence on coal.

默克尔把这一延长称为“桥梁”直到像风电和太阳能这样的可再生能源可产生更多能量，因为德国试图减少对煤炭的依赖。

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Boone Pickens has argued for years that natural gas is the best immediately available economic and environmental solution for U.S. energy needs, a bridge over oil and coal to the future when alternative solar, wind, and nuclear power will be ready to take over more of the load.

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Clean-burning natural gas, he said, will serve as the bridge fuel to take us from reliance on oil and coal to alternatives like solar and wind.

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