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Re:Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online by initplus on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:18PM (#28856256)
If fossil fuel power plants were legally responsible for harm caused by their carbon emissions, they would also be impossible to insure.
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Re:Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online by Gwypaas on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:21PM (#28856290)
Who compares against fossil plants nowadays? Except wanting to put a carbon tax on them to account for that issue you mention.

Truly, it's new built nuclear compared compared to renewables, storage and long-distance distance transmission. Spatial and temporal arbitrage of energy.

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Re:Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online by loeg on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:35PM (#28856508)
Germany is shutting down nuclear and replacing it with coal and gas. The comparison to fossil fuel is incredibly apt.
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Re:Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online by Gwypaas on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:38PM (#28856548)
Going by the German energy usage there's no replacement using fossil plants being done. It's all displaced by cheaper renewables, especially coal and old nuclear plants.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

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Re:Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online by germandiago on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:44AM (#28863498)
This is a silly move IMHO. The mix to go for should be clean + backup nuclear.
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