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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by chickenbig on Saturday September 13, 2025 @02:07AM (#45229717)
> Germany has spent $700B on renewable energy and need 250GW of power.

Germany has just over 250GW of installed capacity. [0] indicates peak power is 75GW. Replicating the Olkiluoto EPR build for 75GW of capacity would have cost perhaps 500B EUR.

[1] speculates about what would have happened if Germany had retained its nuclear power stations and performed a fleet build-out.

[0] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-industry-has-lar...

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14786451.2024.2...

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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by ViewTrick1002 on Saturday September 13, 2025 @04:15AM (#45230290)
Citing [1] means that you are only here to sow discord citing research you know is factually wrong.

That study is laughably bad. To the point that they double counted all renewable investment.

See: https://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/en/blog/2024/kritische-stellun...

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