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Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by matt4077 on Sunday December 24, 2017 @04:16AM (#15998738)
Yeah... terrible. Twice the carbon intensity of nuclear-only!

Meanwhile, Germany has half the carbon intensity of California, 1/4 that of Poland, and 1/7 Australia. With lower prices than France, and with no unsolved long-term storage problems.

Plus they arguably single-handedly subsidized solar power to where it is today, I. e. close to be competitive with natural gas.

And how they’re suffering! Unemployment at almost 4%, single most dynamic economy in Europe, taking in one million refugees with comparatively little brouhaha (10% voting for the xenophobes in this year’s election, vs. 8000 refugees and 49% for Trump in the US)

These Greens have surely been ruining Germany.

Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by joss82 on Sunday December 24, 2017 @04:50AM (#15998846)
Consumer electricity price in Germany is almost twice the French price. Edit: source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#/media/F...
Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by matt4077 on Sunday December 24, 2017 @04:56AM (#15998864)
yeah... try building a nuclear power plant today for whatever the (heavily subsidized and long written-off) construction costs they use to arrive at those prices.
Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by acidburnNSA on Sunday December 24, 2017 @09:19AM (#15999623)
S. Korea, Russia, India, China can build them for cheap by standardizing designs. Nuclear doesn't have to be expensive.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/C-Russia-achieves-serial-n...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...

Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday December 24, 2017 @04:32AM (#15998786)
> and with no unsolved long-term storage problems

It could be argued carbon emissions are an unsolved long-term storage problem.

Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by realusername on Sunday December 24, 2017 @05:17AM (#15998916)
Right now the main problem we have is global warming, not nuclear waste storage, we know how to store the waste in good conditions whereas nobody knows how disastrous global warming will be, unless Germany can match the same levels of CO2 as nuclear, their efforts are pretty useless.
Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by whyever on Sunday December 24, 2017 @06:04AM (#15999027)
Nobody knows how to store it in good conditions. The attempts in Germany are highly controversial.
Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by vixen99 on Sunday December 24, 2017 @06:00AM (#15999013)
Specifically - how does global warming manifest itself - at present (aside from projections) as a problem in Germany?
Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by matt4077 on Sunday December 24, 2017 @09:18AM (#15999616)
Migration from sub-Saharan Africa is arguably caused by economic problems excercebated by global-warming related droughts.
Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by melling on Sunday December 24, 2017 @04:40AM (#15998822)
France has a carbon intensity if 61. Nuclear power really helps. NY state is also under 200 and uses quite a bit of nuclear power.

It’s unfortunate that nuclear energy is not acceptable to many people. Hopefully, China will be successful with its adoption.

Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by adrianN on Sunday December 24, 2017 @04:26AM (#15998769)
140g/kWh when the wind is blowing strongly. On average more than 500g/kWh: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/37...