Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power
by rhodozelia on Sunday February 21, 2021 @07:33PM
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They could have moved even more power consumption off of fossil fuels had they not freaked out after fukashima and turned all their reactors off!
You have to factor in political opposition by energy companies and unions. So I'd have expected that the bare minimum to hit our reduction goals would have been done. Given that we did manage to hit our goal, things might not have looked much different even in a world where nuclear plants had been kept alive...
That's still bad, no argument: France splits atoms, while Germany burns lignite, and peat aside, that's as bad as it gets as far as CO2 goes.
However, that's beside the point: The fact remains that Germany did move a significant amount of electricity generation from fossil fuels to renewables.