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Re:Want to fight climate change? Build more nuclear power by D_Alex on Sunday August 31, 2014 @04:34AM (#8248783)
>Now we have to build-up renewable decentralized energy during the next decades. That's the common goal here in Germany.

Great. But Germany is also building new brown coal power plants, what's more Germany is backing a brown coal power plant just across the border with Poland. So it seems that there is a need for ongoing base load power generation... and effectively Germany is going for brown coal over nuclear.

Brown coal is, I believe, the most polluting way to generate electricity. So... why not nuclear instead?

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Re:Want to fight climate change? Build more nuclear power by lispm on Sunday August 31, 2014 @05:21AM (#8248842)
> But Germany is also building new brown coal power plants

Germany is also closing fossil fuel plants.

> So... why not nuclear instead?

There is no 'instead'. Coal will be phased out a lot during the next decades.

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