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What makes this even more absurd is that Germany currently has to produce electricity using gas in order to sell it to France, where nuclear power plants needed
by pvorb 4y ago
What makes this even more absurd is that Germany currently has to produce electricity using gas in order to sell it to France, where nuclear power plants needed to be shut down because of low water levels in rivers. Without that, Germany wouldn't need very expensive gas for electricity at all at the moment and could rely on renewables and coal, which would lead to lower prices.
- delibes 4y agoIf only it were the case that we hadn't caused massive climate change by burning fossil fuels, causing a severe drought across Europe, so that there were a shortage of simple cooling fluid for the nuclear power plants. If only we could've done see it coming and something...
- imtringued 4y agoFrankly this has more to do with the fetish of building overly large nuclear power plants. They are usually far bigger than coal plants but they get connected to rivers of similar size.