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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.