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Wouldn't change much if any at all. Nuclear power was only less than 6% of total energy production in 2022 already. https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/stu

Wouldn't change much if any at all. Nuclear power was only less than 6% of total energy production in 2022 already. https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/29295/umfrage/anteil-der-atomenergie-an-der-stromerzeugung-in-deutschland/ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/29295/umfrage...

Kuinox 2y ago
Coal produce 10% of the energy of Germany right now, it's 60% of the emissions. 5% of nuclear would reduce by a third the Germany emissions by reducing coal usage. > Wouldn't change much if any at all.
- Arnt 2y ago
  Amazing how right you can be and still wrong. 5% of German production is about twice the projected capacity of Hinkley Point C, the only current nuclear plant I remember the name of, so that might cost maybe €60B. The same amount of PV would cost maybe €2B. If you overbuild PV by 300% you still have >€50B cost difference. You can reach any conclusion if you're willing to disregard price differences of more than 10×. Ditto if you're willing to assume near-zero cost by assuming inexpensive restauration of hardware that's past the end of its design life.
  - Kuinox 2y ago
    > Amazing how right you can be and still wrong. Of course I'm wrong, I think differently than your beliefs, Atheist were wrong too.
    - Arnt 2y ago
      You do think differently than my beliefs… Independent of belief, "X has the following good feature" does not imply "X is a good idea" or "X is worth serious consideration". Belief is one thing, cost is quite another and cannot be believed away.
athrowaway3z 2y ago
What a weird reference to take. It should be obvious they're talking about pre-fukushima capacity. Which was 141 TWH in 2010 and would have more than replaced the entire brown&hard coal use for 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330065/gross-electricity-generation-by-source-germany/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330065/gross-electricit...
- martin_a 2y ago
  What a weird reference from you. Fukushima is long gone and decisions were made at that time by the government at that time to phase out of nuclear power generation for multiple reasons. That's the situation to work with, anything else is superfluous.

Kuinox 2y ago

Coal produce 10% of the energy of Germany right now, it's 60% of the emissions. 5% of nuclear would reduce by a third the Germany emissions by reducing coal usage. > Wouldn't change much if any at all.

Arnt 2y ago
Amazing how right you can be and still wrong. 5% of German production is about twice the projected capacity of Hinkley Point C, the only current nuclear plant I remember the name of, so that might cost maybe €60B. The same amount of PV would cost maybe €2B. If you overbuild PV by 300% you still have >€50B cost difference. You can reach any conclusion if you're willing to disregard price differences of more than 10×. Ditto if you're willing to assume near-zero cost by assuming inexpensive restauration of hardware that's past the end of its design life.
- Kuinox 2y ago
  > Amazing how right you can be and still wrong. Of course I'm wrong, I think differently than your beliefs, Atheist were wrong too.
  - Arnt 2y ago
    You do think differently than my beliefs… Independent of belief, "X has the following good feature" does not imply "X is a good idea" or "X is worth serious consideration". Belief is one thing, cost is quite another and cannot be believed away.

athrowaway3z 2y ago

What a weird reference to take. It should be obvious they're talking about pre-fukushima capacity. Which was 141 TWH in 2010 and would have more than replaced the entire brown&hard coal use for 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330065/gross-electricity-generation-by-source-germany/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330065/gross-electricit...

martin_a 2y ago
What a weird reference from you. Fukushima is long gone and decisions were made at that time by the government at that time to phase out of nuclear power generation for multiple reasons. That's the situation to work with, anything else is superfluous.