Re:The Necessity of Nuclear
by x220 on Sunday October 13, 2019 @06:38PM
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If the transmission and storage isn't a problem, why hasn't Germany's carbon emissions from energy stayed roughly the same? Since 2000 they've invested a lot into solar and wind, and yet they still produce roughly the same amount of energy from coal and gas.
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Increased consumption, for the most part.
Are you sure about that? I've been keeping an eye on the German numbers because it is the fairest experiment and it looks to me like they've failed to have any sort of environmentally positive outcome. Their energy use is flat, and they've swapped nuclear for renewables, with a little reduction in hard-coal [0].
If the goal of Germany's Energiewende was cleaner energy, France is thrashing them without even trying. That is really a stunning endorsement of just how technically excellent nuclear power is.
[0] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...