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Burning coal in winter and turning off safe(!) and paid off(!) nuclear plants sounds like a failure to me.
by lnsru 3y ago
Burning coal in winter and turning off safe(!) and paid off(!) nuclear plants sounds like a failure to me.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoThe right wing parties at this very moment campaigning against heat pumps is a better example. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36089912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36089912
- aeyes 3y agoYou are in a thread saying that shutting down nuclear was a mistake because they'd have to burn coal to make up for it. At the same time you are saying that forcing new installations (and repairs to a certain extent) to use heat pumps instead of gas starting next year putting even more stress on the grid is a good move?
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoYes. Because it is. The "grid" wasn't "strained". The main source of cheap gas got strangled due to a war. Most of it was used in home heating and industry, neither of which nuclear would help with without more electrification.
- hef19898 3y agoYes, because regardless of the niose the CDU/CSU and FDP make, thebgrid im Germany never had any issues.
- eisa01 3y agoYes, you get more heat out of a CCGT->Heat pump, than directly with a gas boiler This has been known for decades, see Without Hot Air: http://www.withouthotair.com/c21/page_150.shtml http://www.withouthotair.com/c21/page_150.shtml
- hef19898 3y agoNuclear power plants need maintenance ("failing" France is used an example for this all the time on HN) and fuel rods. With the nuclear exit, reaffirmed by a conservative government, was decided ages ago, German nuclear plants were in no position to rwtain their certification. Nor was fuel ordered or available. And yes, still having coal is a failure from a climate perspective. Energy was plenty so, if we exclude price hikes caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And those price hike were global.