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Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by jopsen on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @07:41AM (#27367501)
> Europe is just too small and too densely populated to risk nuklear accidents.

Maybe, if we built new safe reactors it wouldn't be a problem.

That said, it's probably faster to go renewable -- so is it too much to ask that Germany doesn't build more cold fired plants?

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Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by flohofwoe on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @07:50AM (#27367570)
As far as I'm aware, no new coal plants will be built:

https://www.powermag.com/germany-brings-last-new-coal-plant-...

Coal seems to be roughly on the same trajectory as nuclear, and since around 2015 on a much sharper decline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany

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Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by pantalaimon on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:19AM (#27368327)
Datteln 4 just started operating last year
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Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by flohofwoe on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:31AM (#27368459)
And that was the last one, meanwhile 8 other coal power plants had been closed in the same year. Planning and building power plants takes a long time, especially in Germany, where all big construction projects take forever. It's clear that there's gonna be some overlap between old and new plans.
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