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No wonder, seeing how conservative and right-leaning parties are doing everything in their power to delay renewables wherever they can. In Germany new power dis
by simfoo 2y ago
No wonder, seeing how conservative and right-leaning parties are doing everything in their power to delay renewables wherever they can. In Germany new power distribution infrastructure keeps being delayed despite desperate need (at times most wind turbines and solar farms are shut down remotely because the power cannot be transported to consumers) and they managed to slow down deployment of heat pumps to bring down gas usage used for heating.
Recent estimates reckon that last years conservative campaign against heat pumps led to a rocking 24 billion € extra spending on gas (https://www.focus.de/earth/energie/auf-kosten-der-verbraucher-rekordumsatz-in-milliardenhoehe-das-brachte-die-heizhammer-kampagne-den-gasversorgern_id_260753085.html https://www.focus.de/earth/energie/auf-kosten-der-verbrauche...)
- banqjls 2y ago[flagged]
- whoknowsidont 2y agoThe implied myth here is incredibly annoying to read. It takes 10 seconds to verify why nuclear power was not deployed more readily, and it's not what you're implying.
- soco 2y agoTo be totally honest, greens are blocking nuclear and conservatives are blocking renewables so here we are, with the worst of both worlds, breathing smokes and fumes.
- banqjls 2y ago[flagged]
- simfoo 2y agoMarkets are blocking nuclear, because they can still calculate costs. And costs is the reason not to go nuclear.
- DAGdug 2y agoHow much of this is intrinsic to nuclear versus due to regulatory requirements (various taxes including subsidies for certain renewables, early decommissioning)? My sense always was that this was about the latter rather than the former, but I’m happy to be educated.
- nothercastle 2y agoThe more renewables on the grid the more gas you need. Gas is required to balance out solar and wind until battery technology matures. Renewable eliminate the need for costly coal and nuclear but they need gas to deal with times of low solar and wind.
- simfoo 2y agoThis is a lie that has been disproven repeatedly and is part of the disinformation that is spread all over the internet. What _is_ required is flexible power distribution and storage infrastructure
- flir 2y agoTimeshifting the load helps too.
- nothercastle 2y agoHow ever you do it you need to time shift. Either though batteries or usage or ideally both. The interim solution is gas. Because solar is so cheap it makes sense to take other more expensive and slow power sources offline but that does increase how much gas you use even if the total fossil fuel consumption goes down.
- ta1243 2y agoSo if you have a demand for say 100Twh a year and generation 1Twh from renewable, you need very little gas. On the other hand if you generate 60Twh renewable, you need more gas? Is that what you're saying?
- wang_li 2y agoThey are saying that if 50% of your generating capacity drops to 1% of you need a lot of gas powered plants to make up that difference. If your renewables represent 1% of the generating capacity you need very little gas to make up that difference.
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- pjc50 2y agoI'm reminded of "insulate Britain", a protest group advocating for government-subsidized energy efficiency. People absolutely hated them because of their traffic-stopping tactics.
- floxy 2y agohttps://www.noahpinion.blog/p/blue-states-dont-build-red-states https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/blue-states-dont-build-red-sta...
- p3rls 2y ago[flagged]