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Prepend archive.is/ to the URL. The images are cut off but you can open them in a new tab to see the whole image. I would also recommend https://ourworldindata
by Luc 3y ago
Prepend archive.is/ to the URL. The images are cut off but you can open them in a new tab to see the whole image.
I would also recommend https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions . You can compare the UK to other countries. It seems to be doing rather well (though it has huge historical emissions), e.g. the UK is at 4.6 tonnes CO2 per person, while Germany is at 8.
- mpweiher 3y agoWell, Germany is doing particularly horribly. The "Energiewende" was a huge failure, due to its reliance on Russian Gas, even before the Russian Gas thing blew up in our faces and we had to scramble to buy up all the gas on the international market.
- adrianN 3y agoIn what way was it a failure? CO2 per kWh had been going down steadily. Germany just built less renewables than the UK.
- mpweiher 3y agoCoal use went UP the last two years, not down. This year it's down, in part due to the recession reducing overall demand. And the recession is in large part due to high energy prices. Germany has the 2nd highest electricity prices in the EU. AND the 2nd highest CO2 emissions per unit of energy. That's after 20 years of "Energiewende". If that isn't a failure, I don't know what is. And yes, emissions do go down. It's just that "yes, renewables produce some electricity some of the time" is not exactly success.
- ViewTrick1002 3y agoIn large part due to making up the French nuclear shortfall. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/business/nuclear-power-france.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/business/nuclear-power-fr...
- mpweiher 3y agoFrance had planned inspection and maintenance shutdowns that took longer because they had deferred those during the COVID years. Scheduled for the summer when electricity consumption is lowest and PV generation is highest. Because, well, you actually can schedule power generation with a nuclear power plant. And that was the only year. In 2023 France is exporting to Germany again.
- ViewTrick1002 3y agoNow you are misrepresenting facts to present a rosy picture. Is it that hard to go by the facts? Or does nuclear power require lies to be sold? They found unexpected corrosion cracks in critical cooling pipes across much of the fleet. It was not planned or deferred maintenance. We lasted the entire winter with half the French nuclear energy fleet off line, when it was needed the most. France was an importer of German coal the entire winter. Now we are back, but we need to keep in mind that fleets of nuclear plants share the issues. Exactly like when we ground fleets of commercial aircraft. The failure modes are correlated.
- mpweiher 3y agoNothing that I wrote was wrong. Now they actually found a problem during these routine inspections, so they took longer than anticipated. Though that's kind of why you have inspections: so you find problems before they become real problems. Which is what happened here. And again, the reason it was so many power stations at the same time is that maintenance was deferred during the COVID years (and the chronic underinvestment the last decades). So stuff accumulates. But again, this is because they were able to choose when to do this. Which is pretty much the opposite of how it was portrayed in the press in Germany and how it stuck in the minds of anti-nuclear advocates.
- ViewTrick1002 3y agoGood to know that they chose to do the safety critical maintenance during winter and coinciding with a fossil gas supply crisis due to war in Europe. Smart thinking!
- adrianN 3y agoRenewables account for something like 40% of electricity production in Germany. That’s a lot more than „some be energy some of the time“.