Live display of CO2 emitted to produce electricity in European countries

Re:Live display of CO2 emitted to produce electricity in Eur... by ajmurmann on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @09:57AM (#13270831)

If you look at German power generation at this very moment you will see that they have huge wind and solar capacity, but the energy right now is mainly coming from coal. I'm not sure if I should prefer nuclear or coal to step in in these wind still winter days. Of course more energy storage would be even better.

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Re:Live display of CO2 emitted to produce electricity in Eur... by davedx on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @12:21PM (#13271951)

Germany has some problems building the high voltage interconnects between north and south. Once these finally get built, their power grid will be more flexible, which will help.

Of course, those dreaded winter dips in both sunshine and wind are a nightmare...

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Re:Live display of CO2 emitted to produce electricity in Eur... by TillE on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @10:22AM (#13271024)

Wind and solar are still growing in Germany. Wind turbines are a relatively common sight, but pretty sparse. Building nuclear plants even in an ideal fantasy world would be hugely expensive and slow.

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Re:Live display of CO2 emitted to produce electricity in Eur... by ajmurmann on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @12:43PM (#13272117)

Yes, building them would be. However, not shutting the existing once down because we learned that tsunamis can threaten nuclear power plants on the coast is a different story. Don't get me wrong I honestly don't know if nuclear is better than coal, but think it's a viable discussion.

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