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They're actually going to phase out coal completely by 2038. After 16 years of Merkel breaking renewables, they're being expanded again. An expansion which, in
by Krasnol 4y ago
They're actually going to phase out coal completely by 2038.
After 16 years of Merkel breaking renewables, they're being expanded again. An expansion which, in the past helped to establish this technology on this planet.
Edit (since the Astro-Turf downvotes prevent me from answering to even more falsehoods being posted here...): And no, they couldn't have phased out coal completely because NO party wanted to lose voters in those regions where coal is generated. Just have a look at the name and tasks of the commission tasked with the phase out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Growth,_Structural_Change_and_Employment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Growth,_Structur...
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoI think the argument is that they could have phased out coal 10 years sooner, if they just left alone the nuclear plants they already had
- Krasnol 4y agoThe argument doesn't make any sense since one has nothing to do with the other. See my edit.
- throw_pm23 4y ago2038 is far enough into the future that anything and its opposite could happen by then.
- Krasnol 4y agoSure. Like a nuclear accident in one of the rotting French reactors for example. Meanwhile, the expansion of cheap renewable energy which gets better and cheaper continues to happen.
- qwytw 4y agoWell they could've have already done that by now if not a decade or two ago if they skipped the period of mass psychosis back in the 80s...