Re:Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open
by rad_gruchalski on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:30PM
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> Well I'm from Portugal, where renewable power generation percent swings between the low 60's and the high 80's depending on the month and where we don't have any need for gas heating whatsoever.
Yes. Sure. The country is roughly 4 times smaller than Germany, the population is 10m vs 83m in Germany and you don’t get continental climate.
Re:Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open
by glogla on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:25AM
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Things should be easier in a larger country due to economics of scale. Also Germany is war richer than Portugal.
Germany uses fossil fuels because they want to, not because they have to.
Re:Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open
by freemint on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:15AM
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> How will Germany solve base load generation for power and heating without nuclear or fossil fuels in a country with weather as shit as Germany?
Gas power plants which will be upgraded to burn more and more hydrogen distributed using existing Erdgas infrastructure stored in subterranean salt caverns produced by surplus energy using electrolyzers.
For shorter term swings are compensated with a mix of demand management, solid batteries, redox flow batteries, underwater pumped hydro, .... What evers s cheapest for the usecase
How will Germany solve base load generation for power and heating without nuclear or fossil fuels in a country with weather as shit as Germany? Some of your points are reasonable but they are mostly silly, especially without any discussion of the elephant in the room. Anything else is greenwashing garbage.
(lived in Frankfurt for a spell and will never go back. Nuclear-neutral, I dig it but whatever's cheapest is ok for me. Techno-positive on climate change. If you want to be ecological move somewhere tropical, live simple and never leave)