Assessing the social acceptance of key technologies for the German energy transition

Table 3 Bivariate correlations (Spearman’s rank order) between public concerns and financial support, general acceptance and local acceptance for hydrogen refueling stations

	General acceptance	Local acceptance
Electrosmog	− 0.132**	− 0.150**
Smell pollution	− 0.095	− 0.106*
Noise pollution	− 0.060	− 0.114*
Air pollution	− 0.154**	− 0.128**
Fire hazard	− 0.053	− 0.153**
Explosion hazard	− 0.069	− 0.223**
Negative impact on landscape and cityscape	− 0.107*	− 0.156**
Financial support	0.560**	0.340**
General acceptance	–	0.333**

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