Meh. Why are you trying so hard to blame it on the overwhelmingly leftist anti-nuclear movement, instead of the overwhelmingly rightwing fossil fuel lobby goons?
Because there’s more to blame, and being right or wrong, than what fucking team someone is on. Because of anti-nuclear sentiment in Germany, Germany is right now burning millions of tons of coal more than they would be if they’d kept up nuclear. And these are plants that already existed, that were switched off early. So the biggest modern objection to nuclear power - that it’s expensive compared to renewables - did not apply, because those costs are almost all incurred in construction and decommissioning.
We’re constantly making stupid decisions concerning energy. I mean we know about the planet, climate change, sustainability for a long time. Even the predictions in old geography books I found from the 80s are pretty much the right direction… First decision to eventually maybe cut down on nuclear was in 2002… We could probably have settled it by now. If it weren’t for stupid politics, big oil and gas lobbying and our politicians (to this day) trying to get hooked on energy from some wannabe dictators who (surprise) are going to blackmail us at some point.
I think the only sane option is to -at some point- get over it, look ahead and try to come up with a solution. And that’s a big investment into renewables, storage and the energy grid. So by now the first people we need to blame is everyone who isn’t en route towards a better future. I mean we can also blame Merkel. But that in itself isn’t going to get us anywhere.
Sure we are. But I reserve a special place for people who understand that we need to get off fossil fuels but can’t see that that is the most important energy choice of all, by several orders of magnitude, so that if you have the choice to do something else that might be a good idea in its own right, but it would make achieving that harder, you absolutely should not take that choice.
I hope all those anti-nuclear people enjoy all the coal they’re burning.
Meh. Why are you trying so hard to blame it on the overwhelmingly leftist anti-nuclear movement, instead of the overwhelmingly rightwing fossil fuel lobby goons?
I blame the fossil fuel lobby goons too.
Because there’s more to blame, and being right or wrong, than what fucking team someone is on. Because of anti-nuclear sentiment in Germany, Germany is right now burning millions of tons of coal more than they would be if they’d kept up nuclear. And these are plants that already existed, that were switched off early. So the biggest modern objection to nuclear power - that it’s expensive compared to renewables - did not apply, because those costs are almost all incurred in construction and decommissioning.
It was a massive own-goal.
We’re constantly making stupid decisions concerning energy. I mean we know about the planet, climate change, sustainability for a long time. Even the predictions in old geography books I found from the 80s are pretty much the right direction… First decision to eventually maybe cut down on nuclear was in 2002… We could probably have settled it by now. If it weren’t for stupid politics, big oil and gas lobbying and our politicians (to this day) trying to get hooked on energy from some wannabe dictators who (surprise) are going to blackmail us at some point.
I think the only sane option is to -at some point- get over it, look ahead and try to come up with a solution. And that’s a big investment into renewables, storage and the energy grid. So by now the first people we need to blame is everyone who isn’t en route towards a better future. I mean we can also blame Merkel. But that in itself isn’t going to get us anywhere.
Sure we are. But I reserve a special place for people who understand that we need to get off fossil fuels but can’t see that that is the most important energy choice of all, by several orders of magnitude, so that if you have the choice to do something else that might be a good idea in its own right, but it would make achieving that harder, you absolutely should not take that choice.
Your own graph shows coal power has halved.
That graph looks a lot like coal mine s the source with the biggest decrease
you missed the green part of the graph…