Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm

Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by philwelch on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:42PM (#21448452)

If nuclear isn't happening in time, neither are renewables. Countries like Germany that are transitioning away from nuclear and towards renewables have actually increased their fossil fuel consumption in recent years because renewables just aren't keeping up.

Not to mention that many of the delays and drawbacks of nuclear power are precisely due to the antinuclear movement itself, which imposes barriers and regulations instead of the subsidies that renewables have received.

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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by cygx on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:30AM (#21452163)

Countries like Germany that are transitioning away from nuclear and towards renewables have actually increased their fossil fuel consumption in recent years

Please stop spreading misinformation: While we've failed our planned reduction goals, we did in fact reduce fossil fuel usage.

https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&p...

https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/38...

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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by zaarn on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:27AM (#21451745)

Part of the reason why Germany is burning more fossil fuels is that the coal lobby paid for that. The coal industry got a shitload of permits to build coal plants a while ago, in some cases coal plants that are being shut down are being turn down and replaced with a new coal plant that the operator got a permit for.

Meanwhile the renewables are being choked by increasing regulatory burdens (which the coal lobby lobbied for) and fake news (pushed by the coal lobby) to prevent even those who pass the burden from building anything. In Bavaria the area where wind turbines can still be built is less than a percent of the total area of the state, the coal lobby meanwhile is building a new coal plant (they got a permit to build one and politics is unwilling to revoke it).

Renewables could have easily replaced a large part of nuclear if not for the coal lobby.

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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by raxxorrax on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:33AM (#21450945)

I still wasn't a bad idea to kill nuclear in Germany. It is pretty expensive, admittably partly due to regulation, but also because of unsolved problems. Additionally we would have to ask Plutonium-Putin (No, we do not use plutonium-reactors)for all his good stuff and people would have cried again. There are still active NPP in Germany, but overall you cannot really say the decision was bad.

Yes, there are new coal powered plants being build, but mostly to replace inefficient older ones. There might be an argument that a new NPP would have been a better solution, but it wouldn't have worked out economically. Maybe with taxes on carbon dioxides if that would have been implemented.

I think subsidies for renewables are a far better investment compared to NPP.

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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by philwelch on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @05:06AM (#21451060)

There’s literally a natural gas pipeline being built between Germany and Russia.

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