Germany is opening its first electric highway for trucks

Re:Germany is opening its first electric highway for trucks by freeflight on Thursday May 09, 2019 @07:29AM (#19867184)

> Yeah... no. Half of the German electricity is coal-based

And a good third comes from renewables without having any meaningful hydropower opportunities [0].

> Combined with the total stop of nuclear energy, and the unsolved problem of storing/distributing renewable energy

There are still 7 reactors running [1] just like on-going research into nuclear fusion [2]. Both are far more difficult problems to solve than electricity storage, which has comparatively research potential versus nuclear fission projects which have the actual unsolved problem of where to "finally" store that waste for decades and centuries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kernreaktoren_in_Deu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X

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Re:Germany is opening its first electric highway for trucks by gridlockd on Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:37AM (#19867704)

You're doing nothing to convince me that my conclusion is incorrect. Yes, Germany still has reactors, which they will turn off, exacerbating the problem.

Nuclear waste storage is a solved problem, just not the "indefinitely" part. That part can be put off for a long time.

By contrast, if you want to replace coal/nuclear with renewable energy, you need to solve the storage/distribution problem first.

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