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I totally forgot about coal subsidies! Those must be the reason why German electricity was cheaper 20 years ago, when we still mined hard coal in the Ruhr area

• Certhas 7y ago
  You seem to not be very well informed and unwilling to learn. In the UK a low carbon tax rendered coal completely uneconomical and they smoothly phased out coal without any price hikes. The guaranteed price for rendering the new Hinkley Point nuclear power station economically viable is much higher than the price of new wind/solar, and higher than the economically optimal system cost of a 100% renewable system. Selectively citing macro facts without considering the complicated details is no way to get to an understanding of the system constraints and possibilities, or the true cost structures. You can't avoid detailed modelling of the trade-offs involved.
  • 08-15 7y ago
    > You seem to not be very well informed and unwilling to learn. Cute. I live in Germany. Nothing you write will change the fact that I pay 30 Euro-cents per kWh. Nor will it change the fact that people in France pay much less and people in Poland pay even less than the French. Nothing that happens in the UK has any impact on that, and neither do you models of trade-off. Your models also don't change the amount of CO2 emitted per capita, which is twice higher in Germany compared to France.
    • Certhas 7y ago
      7ct of that is power generation. The rest is taxes and other things. Nuclear does massively reduce the French CO2 Footprint. And French taxpayers will pay for storing the waste forever.