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It's absolutely wild to do this, and simultaneously: - Place extremely punitive tariffs on cheap Chinese EVs and solar panels. - Shut down nuclear power gener
by A_D_E_P_T 2y ago
It's absolutely wild to do this, and simultaneously:
- Place extremely punitive tariffs on cheap Chinese EVs and solar panels.
- Shut down nuclear power generation facilities. Make it effectively impossible to build new ones.
I mean, as a reality test, if those bureaucrats sincerely believed the Earth was about to become an uninhabitable flooded fire ball due to CO2 emissions, they would actually propose serious solutions -- nuclear power expansion, solar power expansion, subsidies on already-low-cost foreign EVs to make them the most attractive default option by far, investment in indigenous cleantech, etc.
They're not really doing that. Hell, nuclear power generation is banned in Denmark.
They're fundamentally unserious and this is a punitive new tax that's probably targeted at political opponents.
- ceejayoz 2y ago> Hell, nuclear power generation is banned in Denmark. Well, yeah. Slap a Fukushima or Chernobyl-sized exclusion zone anywhere in the country and half of it has to be evacuated overnight.
- A_D_E_P_T 2y agoThe Fukushima exclusion zone, at its largest, was 807 square km. Denmark is 42952 square km. Japan is substantially more densely-populated than Denmark.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThe Chernobyl exclusion zone started as a 30 kilometer radius around the plant; 60km across. There's nowhere in metropolitan Denmark that wouldn't take a significant chunk out of the country.
- Tadpole9181 2y agoAh, of course, only 2% of the entire country. Silly them for being concerned.