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Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) by Ygg2 on Saturday February 26, 2022 @05:47PM (#30482748)
Yeah but shutting down nuclear power after Fukushima is akin to jumping of a building in Germany, because these was a tsunami in Jagan.
Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) by nautilius on Saturday February 26, 2022 @05:55PM (#30482818)
Fukushima was the latest but hardly the only incident. One of them caused fallout all across Europe. Hint: it was just occupied by Russian forces.
Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) by Ygg2 on Saturday February 26, 2022 @08:38PM (#30484428)
Chernobyl was like 1980-ies. And there is a huge difference between gross negligence and two simultaneous natural disasters.
Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) by nautilius on Saturday February 26, 2022 @09:42PM (#30484829)
Not in terms of how it motivates leaving nuclear power. If anything, it shows that it happens, due to vastly different causes, no matter how apparently impossible.
Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) by Ygg2 on Sunday February 27, 2022 @08:38AM (#30488290)
The nuclear plants were closed in response Fukushima, not their perceived danger.

Plus Germany's car industry is joined at the hip with ICE. If you waved a magic wand and made Germany's car industry electric hundreds of highly specialized parts for internal combustion engines.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/germany-electric-vehicles-eu...

Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) by nautilius on Sunday February 27, 2022 @09:05AM (#30488517)
I’m trying to understand what you’re trying to say, but I can’t. Nuclear is shut down because of some platonic ideal of what ‘Fukushima’ may mean, and not by their perceived threat? And German car manufacturers building ICE has what relation to that? And then you swivel to electric cars?

Edit: Removed snark.

Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) by Ygg2 on Sunday February 27, 2022 @10:25PM (#30496034)
How is it hard to comprehend?

German government decided to shut down nuclear power plant in response to protests after Fukushima disaster.

Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) by nautilius on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @12:29AM (#30510013)
I'm confused about the completely unrelated and nonsensical second part of your post.

Also, your statement that it is in response to Fukushima, but somehow not about the perceived danger of nuclear power, makes no sense.

Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) by loeg on Saturday February 26, 2022 @10:46PM (#30485222)
And the RBMK reactors are a 1950s design.
Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) by nautilius on Sunday February 27, 2022 @09:07AM (#30488533)
Thank god. Finally someone proved that nuclear is safe and no accidents can happen.
Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) by panick21_ on Saturday February 26, 2022 @06:25PM (#30483160)
Yeah because what happened 40+ years ago with Soviet Union military technology is totally what should guide current day policy because they both have 'nuclear' in the name.
Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) by rectang on Saturday February 26, 2022 @06:41PM (#30483313)
What hasn't changed are the disproportionate consequences should disaster strike, and the emergent tendencies of energy utilities towards corruption, incompetence, and corner cutting.

Eventually somebody running a plant will screw up, and when they do, the harm will be worse than a wind tower falling over.

Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) by nautilius on Saturday February 26, 2022 @08:05PM (#30484184)
You're replying to a post that lists Fukushima.