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Notice that I posted a 7 paragraph comment gushing about the great progress being made with renewable energy in Germany, and then attached a short footnote ackn
by eigenspace 3y ago
Notice that I posted a 7 paragraph comment gushing about the great progress being made with renewable energy in Germany, and then attached a short footnote acknowledging "yeah I think a mistake was made with nuclear power but oh well", yet all the responses I've gotten are arguing about nuclear power.
Nowhere in my post did I say Germany should be be abandoning renewables or that they should be heavily focusing on nuclear power. I just said that I think it's a shame that they threw out perfectly good reactors long before they reached the end of their lifetime out of irrational fears.
- epistasis 3y agoAh, I may have missed that in this long thread, and thought we were talking about new nuclear, apologies. But I also didn't mean to critique your comment, as much as riffing on it. I don't see the tribalism as much on HN or other forums, except for Twitter, wheee there appears to be a huuuuge amount of zealous advocates that seem impervious to stats, papers, and discussion. Agreed that existing nuclear should stick around as long as maintenance doesn't get more costly than replacing with other options.