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But they were cancelled for similar reasons based on fears fueled by Russian propaganda.
So the Fukushima disaster and US polluted ground water are Russian propaganda for you?
I have always wondered about the origins of the anti nuclear opinion of Germans. It has Cold War origins to be sure, but what kind? I suspect American intelligence has been supporting the anti nuclear movement for some time, for non-proliferation reasons - and not just in Germany. I certainly would be, if I ran the State Department.
Back when I was in high school in France in the 1980s (before Chernobyl), I was already very aware of global warming and deeply resentful of the various Green parties sabotaging the one solution we had at the time.
I'm still very pro-nuclear, including Thorium and fast-neutron breeder reactors (but not small modular reactors, that are a boondoggle outside nuclear submarines), but I recognize solar or renewables combined with grid scale storage are more economical.
I have always wondered about the origins of the anti nuclear opinion of Germans. It has Cold War origins to be sure, but what kind? I suspect American intelligence has been supporting the anti nuclear movement for some time, for non-proliferation reasons - and not just in Germany. I certainly would be, if I ran the State Department.
Once I had a discussion with a German that is a strong supporter of the green party and his argument against nuclear power was the nuclear waste and no proper was of disposing it and also building new nuclear power plants are expensive and take a long time. Then I did a deep research and created a PDF and pointed out that there has been many advances of re-using spent-nuclear fuel and minimize the environmental impac…
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Isn't solar the fastest energy source to spin up? Just take them out of the crate, put them on racks, tie them to the grid.
Not to sound like an ass but that's your typical HNer hot take on a topic they don't know anything about (which is 99% of topics outside of tech). I know that I don't know jack shit about the topic, but I can already tell you that if you do what you describe you'll quickly learn about why grids have frequencies, what generate these frequencies, and what happens when they drift.
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Isn't solar the fastest energy source to spin up? Just take them out of the crate, put them on racks, tie them to the grid.
I guess it is, but solar can only be part of the answer: You need a solid plan (and all the infrastructure that implementing this plan involves) for when the sun does not shine, because in the more northern parts of Europe especially, energy consumption is highest during seasons in which sunlight is (relatively) scarce. Also, "the grid" cannot absorb any amount of solar energy - so if you choose to address (at least…
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> So we just have to build the first expensive 20 to get the experience and then we reap the rewards after 40 years when we need the knowledge again? I think the knowledge doesn't has to start from zero. Germany can ask for foreign aid from China. > If nuclear would be cheap in the western world I'd be all for it but we just can't do large projects in our ccurrent system. I agree, given the fact that it took 15 years…
Gas/Hydrogen are Germany's answer to you last point. You can store energy created by renewables this way easily and use it when needed. Right now we can't produce enough hydrogen though, so gas can be used in the meantime, but in the future the entire infrastructure, such as power plants, pipelines or port terminals can be switched to hydrogen: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/EN/Areas/Energy/HydrogenCor... You could…
To transport hydrogen, you need complex infrastructure (real cold trunk or whatever) and you still leak, so the overall efficiency is bad
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Once I had a discussion with a German that is a strong supporter of the green party and his argument against nuclear power was the nuclear waste and no proper was of disposing it and also building new nuclear power plants are expensive and take a long time. Then I did a deep research and created a PDF and pointed out that there has been many advances of re-using spent-nuclear fuel and minimize the environmental impac…
The "nuclear waste" argument is so weird to me. We take radioactive rocks from the ground. Make them less radioactive. Put them back in the ground. There is no output that wasn't dug up out of the ground originally. It would have been polluting the original location already.
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So we just have to build the first expensive 20 to get the experience and then we reap the rewards after 40 years when we need the knowledge again? If nuclear would be cheap in the western world I'd be all for it but we just can't do large projects in our ccurrent system. Solar + wind + battery is much less of an headache.
> So we just have to build the first expensive 20 to get the experience and then we reap the rewards after 40 years when we need the knowledge again? I think the knowledge doesn't has to start from zero. Germany can ask for foreign aid from China. > If nuclear would be cheap in the western world I'd be all for it but we just can't do large projects in our ccurrent system. I agree, given the fact that it took 15 years…
Sad to read that Germany, that was once an industrial power, is now an empty shell :(
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>Russia openly declares willingness to destroy europe There is not a scintilla of evidence for this. They're trying to keep the same violent and aggressive American dominated military alliance that is currently and actively trying to destroy Iran far away from their most vulnerable border. They also tried to pursue the diplomatic route multiple times before invading and after invading and were always rebuffed.
They started the largest war in Europe since 1945 and I fervently hope that Putin will pay for that in a way similar to Hitler. That entire war is a massive, futile attempt to revive their glorious imperial days by annexing lands that they consider their alienated property. Fuck them and their bombs and their disgusting oscillations between paranoia and megalomania. Contemporary Russia has fewer people than Pakistan…
Ha, you speak about the war between Russia and the US and friends
You are correct. Perhaps deal with all these people in the same way ? It starts with Biden and ends with countless others, all of which are equally guilty, all of which are fuelling a war needlessly.