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Official petition to save Germany’s nuclear power plants
- physicist24 4y agoGood call. Germany is really stubborn in its intent to shut down its nuclear power stations by the end of this year. This would be a great loss of baseload power, which would not just affect Germany but also its neighbours. Sign the petition and share it! I did already. Here is a complete walk-through: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gTWT7RY1tTjgBI2in5bG4cdRTmeLpQ67/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gTWT7RY1tTjgBI2in5bG4cdRTme...
- kramerger 4y agoIs this even technically possible? Haven't they already postponed the shutdown a few times? Currently at 34449/50000, although I don't know if brigading then like this will be okay.
- physicist24 4y agoWell, the government is right now struggling with itself to draft a bill to postpone the shutdown of two of the remaining three 3 NPPs until spring next year. If that fails, the current law requires that they shut down by the end of this year. The 3rd one will be shut down by the end of this year regardless.
- rasz 4y agoGerman politicians were the best Putins investment to date.
- physicist24 4y agoIn fact this started already many years ago. When the Soviet Union collapsed and the Russian Federation assumed its place, Germany still had the upper hand in the German-Russian relations I think. Germany had supported Russia with loans. They even sent financial aid to Russia in order to help them support their own soldiers that were returning from former East Germany in 1994. But in time Russia's economy grew and with the initiation of the German "Energiewende" and the beginning of the nuclear phase-out in 2011 Germany more and more relied on Russian gas.
- ttepasse 4y ago> … with the initiation of the German "Energiewende" and the beginning of the nuclear phase-out in 2011 Germany more and more relied on Russian gas. According to this chart the major rise in natural gas in Germany was in the 80s and 90s. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-region?country=~DEU https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
- physicist24 4y agoWhat do you mean by "brigading like this"? The German parliament (Bundestag) doesn't restrict the right to support petitions to German citizens or to people with German residency even. I'm not a lawyer but I think this is in line with the fact that "jedermann" (everyone) is allowed to submit petitions to the parliament. The "basic rights" listed in the German constitution are really valid for everyone.
- V__ 4y agoYou are correct, it's article 17 of the Grundgesetz [1] and due to the stipulation of "jedermann" (everyone) any person regardless of age, place of residency or citizenship has the right to petition the German parliament. [1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_17.html https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_17.html
- EricE 4y agoWatch how support for this dramatically spikes when it starts to get cold this winter. Reality has a way of obliterating the stupid.
- ttepasse 4y agoHow would nuclear power help with that? The gas is used for heating, in boilers at homes.
- pestatije 4y ago> Reality has a way of obliterating the stupid.
- waste_monk 4y agoIf only some kind of electric radiator existed so people could use the nuclear power to heat their homes...
- ttepasse 4y agoFor ca. 30 million households? In a supply chain crisis?
- SamReidHughes 4y agoYou can use basically any device that consumes electric power and doesn't emit light.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoNot exactly. There are very special things called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heatball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heatball which do both.
- SamReidHughes 4y ago