Re:Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
by jamil7 on Sunday September 13, 2020 @02:22AM
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On every article in some way related to the environment vocal pro nuclear people on HN will appear. Germany is the lastest favourite example for spreading misinformation along with discrediting renewables with FUD.
Re:Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
by Krasnol on Sunday September 13, 2020 @06:54AM
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Yes, this is really a terrible anti-intellectual thing here.
I wonder where this comes from. Is Shellenbergers propaganda bs so influential? Or maybe those failed efforts by billionaires like Gates to get hilarious amounts of cash from the Government?
No it's neither backwards, nor self-destructive and never was.
Self-destructive behaviour is if you create waste you can't get rid of. Like in the case of Germany.
Backwards thinking is when you hold onto an out of date technology democratic, western countries have dropped in favour of a new, cheaper and better technology [1].
And no, as a preemptive counter-argument because it will also appear here and will be wrong: not a single coal plant would have been shut earlier than the current plan [2] to shut them all down outlines because the reason never was power but jobs in regions which are already hit by unemployment.
By now (2019) renewable energy share rose to 42,6%[3] in Germany. So when Freiburg dropped nuclear and "developed as an environmental economics and solar research hub with a packed green CV", the only backwards and self-destructive thinking here is your comment.
[1]https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.74261... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-germany-co... [3] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...