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Hopefully Germany doesn't ban geothermal like they did with nuclear and fracking
by mtoner23 3mo ago
Hopefully Germany doesn't ban geothermal like they did with nuclear and fracking
- skimmed 3mo agoPutting nuclear and fracking on the same level is wild.
- Kichererbsen 3mo agoPutting nuclear and fracking next to each other is also wild. Geographically.
- rob74 3mo agoWhy? Nuclear has extremely serious, but very rare accidents, while fracking has less serious (as in, fewer people affected) accidents more frequently. I would say if you even it out, they're comparable...
- dyauspitr 3mo agoFracking is not like nuclear
- nkmnz 3mo agoBut they were cancelled for similar reasons based on fears fueled by Russian propaganda.
- Gualdrapo 3mo agoThat still doesn't make them comparable
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- maxhille 3mo agoSo the Fukushima disaster and US polluted ground water are Russian propaganda for you?
- Saline9515 3mo agoCumulative radioactivity emitted by German coal as a result of the ban on nuclear is likely higher than the amount of radioactivity spread by the Fukushima disaster. We can also add lung issues and other pollution of the environment caused by soot.
- pydry 3mo agoJust 6.5% of German electricity was generated through coal last year. By contrast Poland was ~90% for years and only just slipped below 50%. If I had to guess why Poland never got any criticism for that while Germany was routinely pilloried by certain flavors of propaganda I would hypothesize that it was because Poland weren't humiliating the nuclear industry by swapping them with solar panels and wind turbines at 1/5th the price.
- slaw 3mo agoYou forgot 14.8% electricity was made by brown coal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignite
- Saline9515 3mo agoSolar panels and wind turbines are useful, but don't provide the base power a network needs to be stable, and on-demand capacity to give some flexibility. Ironically, fossil fuel electricity plants have to be built as part of renewables projects to make them viable. This is why after having spent a trillion of euros in renewables, Germany still has the highest cost of electricity and still relies on French nuclear to stabilize their network. Same goes with Spain, that had a major blackout caused by a renewable shortfall.
- xutopia 3mo agoPlease refrain from putting these 2 in the same bucket. Fracking does lots of localized and non-local pollution. Nuclear is contained and way safer for humans.
- Hackbraten 3mo ago> Nuclear is contained Except when it de-contains itself.
- atmosx 3mo agoI would put all the “nuke is safe” ppl in an island alongside the reactor and go back every 100 years to check if they went Atlantis or not yet… I get that it’s a a form of clean energy and we kind of need that in the EU but a remote, “protected”, isolated location would be my first choice.
- kotaKat 3mo agoSure? With the continual modern improvements and safety engineering and education, I'll live right at the nuke if you'd like. Every plant doesn't operate in a silo (well, it does in a physical sense), the operating knowledge and expertise is shared far and wide to help keep another Three Mile Island or another Fukushima from happening. I enjoy watching the training in action from the control room simulators.[1] Just let me hunker down in the FLEX shelter when the time comes. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuLuQvxJTpQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuLuQvxJTpQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXfuuWfyP6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXfuuWfyP6Y is nice and soothing.
- rightbyte 3mo ago> Nuclear is contained and way safer for humans. One could argue it is nominally safe.
- xeonmc 3mo agotechnically speaking, geothermal is in a way also a form of nuclear energy.