Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon
by durandal1 on Monday October 14, 2019 @12:12PM
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On the other hand look at Germany, who has arguable gone the furthest in the "green transition", which includes shutting down their nuclear power plats. It imports 60+% of its energy, most of it from fossil fuel sources.
But hey, German energy production looks awesome from an environmental perspective!
Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon
by svara on Monday October 14, 2019 @04:17PM
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That's totally false, where did you get this from? Germany is a net exporter of electricity [0]. Nuclear is being phased out and replaced by renewables. [1] Yes, that totally sucks for CO_2 emissions...
[0] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/153533/umfrag...
[1] https://i2.wp.com/adveco.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/EU-po...
If you look at Europe on the other hand coal is in rapid decline (9% decrease 2017-2018 for example[1]) with many countries now being coal free.
In the UK we measure coal free time in weeks now. I expect us to be coal free for good in only a couple of years.
In some countries this is a straight switch to renewables but but often I think it's a staged switch through natural gas.
1. https://sandbag.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/The-Europe...