Re:Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
by lispm on Sunday September 13, 2020 @05:09PM
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The France expertise shows that they can't build nuclear reactors anymore. The ones they work on are many years late and costs are exploding.
The French nuclear industry is centralized and state-owned/run. Not everyone wants finds that model attractive.
Re:Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
by _ph_ on Sunday September 13, 2020 @02:40PM
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German nuclear power was not replaced by fossil fuel, but by renewables. For this year so far, 54% of the German electricity came from renewables, 12% nuclear, 21% coal. Solar alone has eclipsed nuclear with 13%. The installed solar peak capacity is 48 GW, wind is 60 GW, on windy days the production of wind power alone eclipses French nuclear output. Solar peaked at 27 GW at noon today.
Re:Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
by _Microft on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:38PM
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Here are charts showing the composition of energy sources in the german power grid if someone is interested:
Re:Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
by imtringued on Monday September 14, 2020 @05:13AM
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Germany replaced nuclear power with renewables. The more important question is why didn't they replace fossil fuels with renewables and the answer is complicated.
All of that need to be replaced by something else, and the only thing that's quick enough to replace it was fossil fuel. Germany is also not exactly the ideal place for solar power generation.
It's still leave people scratching over why you guys ditched nuclear energy. The newer version of nuclear reactors are safer than fossil when you factor in pollution, and EU itself has expertise (from France).