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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by lispm on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:31AM (#20713224)
> Those are a very small number of reactors and not affecting in anyway the grid, it's totally planned, you do get clickbait article every year though. By the way, they are only being stopped by regulation as well, not any technical problem.

What do you think regulation is for?

> Additionally, renewables had more severe issues at the moment from the heatwaves, above 25 degrees, solar panel outputs drops a lot and generally there's not much wind either during this kind of weather to compensate.

We were breaking a lot of records with renewable energy here in Germany lately...

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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by realusername on Friday August 16, 2019 @05:04AM (#20713376)
> What do you think regulation is for?

Those regulations are there to save fishes, they're not related to nuclear plants, coal plants also have the same issue. That's to save wildlife. If you don't care about fishes, the plant technically works.

Since there's a need for maintenance anyway and less demand, that's not worth killing the fishes with warmer water.

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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by lispm on Friday August 16, 2019 @06:10AM (#20713665)
A nuclear power plant does not work 'technically', if it harms the environment.
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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by realusername on Friday August 16, 2019 @06:38AM (#20713777)
I mean we're going in circles here, it's not needed to start those plants in summer anyway so...
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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by lispm on Friday August 16, 2019 @07:01AM (#20713898)
Sure, you can always import German electricity.
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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by realusername on Friday August 16, 2019 @07:27AM (#20714052)
The reason those plants are not needed (as I said multiple times they are not) is because you have 50% share of electricity heating. And you obviously don't need any heating in summer...
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