Re:Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open
by DasIch on Friday April 15, 2022 @03:59AM
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Gas usage for electricity is insignificant and irrelevant for the discussion at large. What Germany is concerned about is usage of gas for heating and in industry. Turn of the gas and realistically, parts of German industry will be destroyed at a 0.5-6% loss to GDP.
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Re:Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open
by hedora on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:45PM
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But the "insignficant" gas usage for electricity is more than total Russian imports. So, ramping up alternative electricity production would avoid the GDP hit and the dependency on Russia.
Re:Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open
by akimball on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:24AM
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Seems a de minimis cost compared to megadeath and a vast refugee crisis
Re:Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open
by DasIch on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:03AM
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That's only a reasonable comparison to make, if there are no other options. If there are other options, which is clearly the case, you have to compare to those.
A refugee crisis isn't all that bad by the way. Politically it's a problem but economically a 2016 scale refugee crisis every year would be quite good for Germany. Germany needs huge amounts of people, especially people working in trades, to do the work necessary to switch heat pumps, install solar, build more housing etc. They have to come from somewhere and demographics means they have to come from a massive increase in immigration.