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The EU is like Netflix but for energy projects. They always have allocate massive budget portions for such projects, especially for renewable ones. - Wind powe
by nedsma 6y ago
The EU is like Netflix but for energy projects. They always have allocate massive budget portions for such projects, especially for renewable ones.
- Wind power - more wind turbines will be shut down than new built in Germany in 2021. They don't store energy, people living near wind parks hate them, and the government need to buy up power from the wind energy companies.
- Biodiesel/ethanol fuel production - can't be made profitable without heavy state subventions, takes land that's used for food agriculture, in tropical states responsible for biohabitat loss.
- Small hydro projects - probably one of the worst green energy initiatives, they destroy often all life in small rivers and creeks.
- Solar energy - low efficiency, takes up land for farming, recycling issues.
- Hydrogen power - we'll probably see excess wind power being used for hydrogen production, but still not really a viable alternative compared to lithium batteries. The EU can't make it cheaply, they're kind of relying on gigantic solar farms in Africa to make it in large quantities.
Good thing they're keeping on shutting down of coal power plants.
- blablabla123 6y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but literally every source of energy is heavily subsidised. All future options that are realizable right now are mediocre but so are all existing options. > They don't store energy, people living near wind parks hate them You can literally apply this to every other form of energy. Who wants to live near an oil refinery, a coal mining area, a gas pipeline or a nuclear power plant? The current energy supply chains exist since decades and therefore appear so polished.
- jjoonathan 6y agoI thought they were shutting down nuclear and replacing it with new coal/gas? Or is that just Germany?
- ju-st 6y agoGermany is shutting down nuclear and coal. Gas is currently not competitive because it's too expensive and the government reduced renewable expansion targets. You will even have to pay taxes for self produced and self consumed solar power.
- pauletienney 6y agoFrench here. I don't know if it is Germany only but this is not whole EU for sure.
- bryanlarsen 6y ago> more wind turbines will be shut down than new built in Germany in 2021. Which doesn't mean much if the new turbines are much larger than the ones being shut down. We're all grateful for the spending the EU has done on wind and solar. Texas wind power is approaching 1c / kWh. Tesla solar power is under $2/W installed. This never would have happened if Europe didn't drive down prices by heavily subsidizing early adopters. Thanks!
- edogg 6y agoI’ve worked on 30 small hydro projects and don’t think I’ve seen a single tadpole killed. Often they have to create new habitat if some existing habitat is altered to compensate. Probably 15-30% of the total project budget is spent on environmental permitting, monitoring, and design and construction of functionality that make the plant environmentally friendly such as restricting rate of change of water level to 1” per hour