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Germany's Emissions Dive to a 70-Year Low Amid Decline in Coal Use (bnnbreaking.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Wanderer@lemm.ee to c/energy@slrpnk.net

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For a country that people shat on a lot for closing their nuclear plants Germany is on the right track reducing their C02.

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[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hang on you are saying nuclear power has always been a bad idea? That a bit of an unusual view.

What I'm saying is it was good before wind and solar and is still cost effective to keep ruining once built. But I dont think new nuclear power plants should be built unless it's for national security.

[–] 768@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

The combined risk of posthumanity pollution and catastrophic failures makes it a no-go for a risk averse society. Germany is spatially a comparably small country with high population density, there is not really a place where you easily can say no one lives here for the next thousands of years.

La Hague and Sellafield are or were places of necessary production chain segments with high pollution danger and history.

Zaporishja shows how dangerous centralised power production can be.

PV and wind energy were politically advocated for in Germany (California as well btw) before they were cheap and mass produced and efficient, even or especially against nuclear energy.

Austria actually is somewhat of a success story with a similar history.

[–] CJOtheReal@ani.social 0 points 10 months ago

It was always a bad idea and humanity should never have touched uranium at all. Would have saved us so much.