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Germany just shut down several perfectly fine nuclear reactors and has some of the dirtiest electricity generation in the entire world They need to look inward
by exabrial 3mo ago
Germany just shut down several perfectly fine nuclear reactors and has some of the dirtiest electricity generation in the entire world
They need to look inward before pointing outward.
- aaronchall 3mo agoI'm sure the day after Russia withdraws from Ukraine they're going to demand the pipeline from Russia be restored and everyone they suspect involved involved in the Nord Stream blasts extradited too.
- Paradigma11 3mo agoNorth Stream was never about additional capacity. It was always about circumventing Ukraine's pipelines. Which in case of war turned it into a national security risk for Ukraine, which is why they blew it up. It forced Russia to either stop its exports or go through Ukraine. Which all turned out somewhat moot in the end.
- lwde 3mo agoJust not true https://www.destatis.de/Europa/DE/Thema/Umwelt-Energie/Ausbau_ErneuerbareEnergien.html https://www.destatis.de/Europa/DE/Thema/Umwelt-Energie/Ausba...
- 0x000xca0xfe 3mo agoNon-renewable != CO2 intensive (that's how France is doing much better than Germany in CO2 per capita despite being similar in this graph)
- moritzwarhier 3mo ago> The German Physics Society and the German Meteorological Society are not the German government.
- Dagonfly 3mo ago> some of the dirtiest electricity generation in the entire world In Europe. Still cleaner than the US, China, India, Japan, and the world avg: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electricity https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electric... Coal and gas are down 50% compared to 10 years ago despite the shut-down. Nevertheless, shutting down the last few ones was bad.