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>So if you want to actually treat climate change as an important problem, why would you shutdown non-emitting source of power that you already have? In Germany
by pydry 5y ago
>So if you want to actually treat climate change as an important problem, why would you shutdown non-emitting source of power that you already have?
In Germany's case because they saw what happened in Japan and made an adjustment to their projected risk assessments and decided it wasnt worthwhile.
It may have been the wrong decision, especially given the difficulty in measuring the risks involved but it wasnt an irrational decision.
Nuclear power has a small chance of going wrong but when it does it goes very wrong.
And when it did, Japan had to fire up all of its coal and natural gas.
- throw0101a 5y ago"Germany's CO2 emissions from electricity estimated to rise by 13% in 2021" * https://www.enerdata.net/publications/daily-energy-news/germanys-co2-emissions-electricity-estimated-rise-13-2021.html https://www.enerdata.net/publications/daily-energy-news/germ... "German energy demand, carbon dioxide emissions seen rising in 2021 -industry group" * https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/german-energy-demand-carbon-dioxide-emissions-seen-rising-2021-industry-group-2021-11-02/ https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/german-energy-d... "Germany’s energy consumption rising, renewables share falling in 2021" * https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germanys-energy-consumption-rising-renewables-share-falling-2021 https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germanys-energy-consump... I live 50km from a nuclear power plant. I don't worry about it at all.
- pydry 5y ago>Germany's CO2 emissions from electricity estimated to rise by 13% in 2021 I'd have expected a larger spike in light of the end of lockdowns.