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Yet Germany is still implementing pro-coal policies. Not saying it's right, just that it is.

• ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  They have a huge manufacturing industry to feed and no energy, what else could they do to stay in business? So now the greens and their voters will be breathing in coal soot all winter because that's "way better" than the zero emissions nuclear energy. /s If this isn't bitter sweet irony, I don't know what is.
  • pencilguin 4y ago
    It is not. It is just a war emergency. Getting those ramshackle old nukes into good-enough shape to turn back on, and then running them, was correctly recognized as much more expensive, and otherwise riskier besides, than building out renewables. That was proceeding on schedule. The gas shortage upset schedules. Had they chosen not to build out renewables as they did, they would be in even worse trouble now.
  • Schroedingersat 4y ago
    The choice isn't and wasn't renewables or nuclear until much higher penetration. The choice was spending $200bn on renewables to get 238TWh/yr now vs 0 now and maybe 150 later. Not cutting wind investment by 50% would have had a vastly bigger effect than starting some EPRs which would be unfinished or offline right now.