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Live display of CO2 emitted to produce electricity in European countries

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Re: Live display of CO2 emitted to produce electricity in European countries

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Post by sgift »

avar wrote: post #5

Does anyone know of interesting tours you can take of electricity production in Europe or energy infrastructure in general? I'm in The Netherlands, but would be willing to travel for it. A real tour of a nuclear plant would be awesome (i.e. getting to hear / see the reactor), but tours of wind farms / turbines / dams etc. would also be great. Preferably in English.

You could do tours of Isar 2 a few years ago (German nuclear plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isar_Nuclear_Power_Plant), including walking through the inner reactor area. I'm not sure if they still do these tours now that Germany has decided to phase out nuclear energy, but asking couldn't hurt.

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Post by bemmu »

avar wrote: post #5

Does anyone know of interesting tours you can take of electricity production in Europe or energy infrastructure in general? I'm in The Netherlands, but would be willing to travel for it. A real tour of a nuclear plant would be awesome (i.e. getting to hear / see the reactor), but tours of wind farms / turbines / dams etc. would also be great. Preferably in English.

You can visit the repository for low and intermediate level operating waste at Olkiluoto, Finland: http://www.tvo.fi/visitorcentre

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Post by sgift »

matkoboska wrote: post #6

Anyone knows what happened to the "ozone layer desctructed" scare out of 20 something years back? Did it die naturally or someone just had to pay someone for it to be silenced?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol

The world decided for once that something had to be done and ... just did it. This allowed the ozone layer to gradually recover. The ozone hole will hopefully finally be closed again around 2050. (No source at hand, but read it a few days ago)

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Post by quonn »

matkoboska wrote: post #6

Anyone knows what happened to the "ozone layer desctructed" scare out of 20 something years back? Did it die naturally or someone just had to pay someone for it to be silenced?

This was a very real issue, but it was successfully adressed by banning CFCs etc.

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Post by ivanmilles »

avar wrote: post #5

Does anyone know of interesting tours you can take of electricity production in Europe or energy infrastructure in general? I'm in The Netherlands, but would be willing to travel for it. A real tour of a nuclear plant would be awesome (i.e. getting to hear / see the reactor), but tours of wind farms / turbines / dams etc. would also be great. Preferably in English.

Chernobyl is still open for tours, afaik. You won't get very close to any of the running reactors (and not the closed one, of course) but the tours generally go through the complex' main road and through the Pripyat ghost town.

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Post by timmietwo »

finchisko wrote: post #2

Poland what the uck are you doing? Literally black spot on EU map. Stop burning that much coal. Fix it ASAP.

Been there many times. Old condos, homes have coal burning furnaces. People have no money to replace them despite aid from EU to convert to gas. Some people throw everything into the furnace to burn for heat. It's not pleasant to walk outside and breath air fowled by burning plastic bottles.

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Post by _ph_ »

melling wrote: post #4

Nuclear FTW. Of course, it always loses in any HN conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13234463

Well, if you read those conversations, you might notice that people think that

- nuclear is very expensive

- nuclear has a waste and risk problem

- wind and solar are price competitive and very environment friendly

Re: Live display of CO2 emitted to produce electricity in European countries

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Post by estel »

radicalbyte wrote: post #8
avar wrote: post #5

Does anyone know of interesting tours you can take of electricity production in Europe or energy infrastructure in general? I'm in The Netherlands, but would be willing to travel for it. A real tour of a nuclear plant would be awesome (i.e. getting to hear / see the reactor), but tours of wind farms / turbines / dams etc. would also be great. Preferably in English.

I remember visiting a hydro plant in Wales. It was very interesting.

Dinorwig? http://www.electricmountain.co.uk/
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