Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle
by polotics on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:36AM
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We have not chosen renewables: if you compute how much oil for transport, coal for Chinese electricity, etc. you need to produce solar panels, as well as massive mining impacts, you realise that the new renewables (solar and wind, not hydro) are a complete dead end with current technology. A renewables world made only with renewable end-to-end production looks more like the year 1800 than any Green knows or would be prepared to admit.
Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle
by HyperSane on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:09AM
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You chose to shut down perfectly working nuclear reactors and keep burning coal. You COULD and SHOULD have replaced coal with nuclear.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/10/28/the-iron...
Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle
by pclmulqdq on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:16AM
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You thought you chose renewables. You actually chose coal, LNG, and buying power from France.
Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle
by fabian2k on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:23AM
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Germany exports more power than it imports. And France is only a part of the imports, with 2022 being much lower due to their issues with the nuclear power plants.
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2023/03...
Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle
by pclmulqdq on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:57AM
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Large power exports come necessarily from using non-dispatchable forms of power generation like solar and wind. Other people who can turn off their power plants will buy yours rather than burning their own resources. In other words, the amount of power a nation exports means very little about how you keep the lights on.
Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle
by TheLoafOfBread on Saturday April 15, 2023 @09:04AM
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So you can import it at winter for much more $$$ than you sold it at summer.
Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle
by pantalaimon on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:08AM
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Still coal fired plants are supposed to run until 2038
Clarification: I'm talking globally and long term. What's happening right now in Germany is just a blip. The big picture:
> Clean power growth is likely to exceed electricity demand growth in 2023; this would be the first year for this to happen outside of a recession. With average growth in electricity demand and clean power, we forecast that 2023 will see a small fall in fossil generation (-47 TWh, -0.3%), with bigger falls in subsequent years as wind and solar grow further. That would mean 2022 hit “peak” emissions. A new era of falling power sector emissions is close.
https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/global-electrici...