dew2459 t1_it31oh2 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 3:58 PM

Reply to comment by Ghune in German leader warns against 'worldwide renaissance' for coal by Wagamaga

You think that's a joke, but unfortunately it isn't.

Germany has been doing pretty much that for years. They are currently fighting hard (thankfully a losing battle so far) against counting nuclear power as "green" in the EU regulations. It is mind-numbing how flat-earther so many Germans are on nuclear power.

MarTimator t1_it3g7ht wrote on October 20, 2022 at 5:31 PM

The boars here still got Chernobyl in them, its not that far fetched. Its stupid because besides human error, nuclear is pretty safe, yet more expensive. The conservatives made the nuclear exit happen because they wanted to take the topic off the Greens after Fukushima „Look we doing u a good, nucular bad“ and the conservatives (governing mostly with SPD, workers party basically) are also why we’re in deep shit with Russian gas and lacking power lines to the south. And not to mention why Germany has crap internet. Thanks vegetable man. Not to mention the I think 1k solar plants that are operational but not providing power due to lack of certification due to lack of certificators

dew2459 t1_it46ozr wrote on October 20, 2022 at 8:21 PM

>Not to mention the I think 1k solar plants that are operational but not providing power due to lack of certification due to lack of certificators

That seems very German. I worked for a large German company. We (non-Germans) joked "Success has nothing to do with results, success is whether the process has been followed exactly."

MarTimator t1_it46ur5 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 8:22 PM

Yep, some jokers even spent like 180k for a heated bridge, because…

MOXschmelling t1_it4km85 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 9:54 PM

Fellow German countrymen I speak to are not thrilled by a potential MCA. In fact and compared to other nuclear power plants in Europe the German ones are not in that bad of a shape.

However, being aware of the risks of storing and transporting the nuclear waste - we did not even find an apropriate permanent storage site in our country - it is not recommended to accumulate more and more of it. In my opinion this is the greater risk. Nuclear energy itself is clean and relatively safe if properly operated.

fgdfghdhj5yeh t1_it4ioep wrote on October 20, 2022 at 9:41 PM

chernobyl could happen every 10 years and nuclear would still cause less deaths per watt than coal does. so not much of an excuse on their part. uninhabitable area is a good excuse if that were the case though.

LMAO at their 1k solar plants due to no certification.. my god