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by _ph_ 4y ago
It is certainly cleaner than coal, that would be the main reason to keep them running (if possible, what is not given). They make little difference in the energy supply to Germany, as they provide like 6% of the German electricity. This is
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by _ph_ 4y ago
They are providing like 6% of the German electricity. So yes, replacing them will require more fossil fuel short time. On the other side, the idea is to replace them with renewal sources. Germany is already at 50 renewables in the electrici
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Because it is wrong. She isn't heading German climate affairs.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
That is wrong. That former Greepeace member works for the foreign ministry, it seems with the purpose of dealing with international actions against climate change. This office has nothing to do with the German climate policiy. That would b
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I remember growing up during the cold war in western Germany which was formally under the control of the allied forces. So they were allowed to go supersonic with the military jet aircraft and frequetly did so, even in rather populated area
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by _ph_ 4y ago
This could be a very important enabler. As you can see in other "luxus" industries, the amount of affluent people on this planet has ballooned. I don't know any numbers, but I got the impression that the private airplane indu
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The keyboard on the M2 Air is probably the best laptop keyboard I ever had.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes it has. For example JET achived 16 MW of fusion power output in 1997. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus ) Its successor, ITER is supposed to produce more energy than used in creating the fusion pro
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by _ph_ 4y ago
If anyone, you would be the moron. If Norvegian electricity is more expensive because of Germany, then because Norway is selling it at that higher price. If Norway wouldn't sell it, there would be no money flowing from Germany to Norwa
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Can you do anything but make stupid comments without content? Yes, Germany is a net exporter, but Germany is part of the European grid. There is a joint market, where electricity is balanced across Europe every minute. The same country whic
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I have brought scientific arguments, you have brought conspiration theories. You are constantly misrepresenting what I wrote, so I hope everyone can figure out about you.
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> You are spreading misinformation. No. You are. > You believe that politicians and political systems are there to help people, whereas I say they are about controlling and disempowering individuals. You believe science is impervious
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by _ph_ 4y ago
While I also think that humanity would be better off with less cars, I think one shouldn't mix up those matters. To some extend, humanity needs cars and we should push for making those cars as efficient and environmental friendly as po
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If you are doing so little miles, you should of course either not own a car at all or an older, used car. Which will last very long under the conditions.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Nothing "fixes the problem". That is a non-argument. But electric cars are a huge step in the right direction and important in enabling the transition to renewables. Be it only by being a storage by nature.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
You are spreading misinformation. The nice thing about science is, that it is based on reviewable parts. It is "open source", if you want to look at it that way. Yes, there are always single actors, which might have an agenda and
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by _ph_ 4y ago
You are completely right, for 20 years most of the automobile industry built cars that used more energy and especially polluted more than it would have been necessary if they had copied the technology of the Prius. Our environment would loo
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Paris is going to lock out parts of the city for ICE cars in 24.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
And the amount of energy needed to get the raw oil, distill and distribute the gasoline. Not to mentioni that electric cars are ideal to be powered by renewables, as they bring a great storage with them. In Germany, you need about 10 solar
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by _ph_ 4y ago
It is a large assumption that "their nuclear will be there in the future" with so many plants being down for unplanned maintenance as cracks were detected in important parts. It is not clear when and if the full capacity of their
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, and? Currently less than 35% of the German gas comes from Russia. Leaves way enough for electricity. The question is only, who gets cuts, if there isn't enough gas in the winter. The law says, industry first, heating second. The o
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Gladly. But as I said, possible shortages are gas for heating, industrial production, not electricity.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
What makes you think, Germany doesn't have enough electricity? Actually quite the contrary, we produced an additonal 20 TWh to fill in for the gaps left by the French nuclear plants not delivering. (And a lot of other plants in Europe
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Not sure, Fukushima was pretty scary considering the high esteem Japanese engineering has in Germany. Not sure what the deciding factor was, but indeed their remaining run time was shortened, the 2001 decision was targetting for a shutdown
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by _ph_ 4y ago
While I believe this is the most safe option right now - some candidate dumping grounds have failed spectacularly (the Asse), this of course only works as long we are vigilant and also pay the upkeep for storage locations for many millenia.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The thing is, Russia is trying to blame a possible blow up on the Ukrainians. That is their motivation to set it off instead of sprinkling nuclear waste or using nuclear war heads. Never mind all the damage they created around Chernobyl, th
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Haven't you read what I wrote? The 2001 decision was made to run the plants for 25 years. That was the decisions the Greens took part in. Every other decision was taken by governments without Greeen participation. You should carefully
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by _ph_ 4y ago
It was a political decision to set the shut down date to end of 22, but due to maintenance and fuel concerns, it might not be possible to just keep them running. Of course we can perform all necessary maintenance and order new fuel to have
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by _ph_ 4y ago
First of all, please don't call people names and please stay to the truth. I will take a deep breath and try to answer some of your claims calmly. Yes, one can debate whether it was a clever idea to decide in 2001 to get rid of nuclear
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The Greens are the one party not responsible for the current mess Germany is is (which is much less than people here think it is). It was the previous government which decided to cut the run time of the power plants short (it didn't ha

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