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Complete nonsense. The phaseout was going to happen either way. This is only about the few months extension for the last three nuclear power plants and even there the evidence is more than flimsy.
The only complete nonsense here is phasing out nuclear power and opening up coal plants in a middle of a climate crisis. Germany is an utter disgrace of a country that deserves everything that's coming to it.
If anything is a total disgrace it is the temper tantrums of the nuclear fanboys in recent years when their technology of choice falls further and further behind price-wise despite extreme government subsidies and building new power plants becomes embarrassingly expensive and long to the point where it couldn't save us from climate change even if all countries of the world started building plants for 100% of their energy use 10 years ago.
Imagine bleating about government subsidies being expensive when we're talking about averting a climate disaster. 🤡
Meanwhile, the one country that is building nuclear power at scale along with actually manufacturing renewable energy is where emissions are now in structural decline https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/13/chinas-carbon-emissions-set-for-structural-decline-from-next-year
Not good at reading comprehension, huh? If something is expensive even though half of the costs involved are covered by subsidies the real costs are even higher which means nuclear is even less competitive if you took all the costs into account.
Funny how that story in various sources is literally the only place where the term "structural decline" appears (it is the whole page of top results for that term when searching for it), almost as if they needed to come up with a new kind of decline they could claim to have achieved specifically to talk about their numbers.
Meanwhile France, a country that gets most of its power from nuclear has had nothing but problems in the last few years.
Not good at reading comprehension, huh? Talking about costs in the face of a climate crisis is absurd. Humanity has to use all tools available to it. Meanwhile, Germany has already proven that renewables alone are insufficient, that's why coal plants are being brought back online. Also, Germany is shutting down existing nuclear plants. The discussion isn't even about building new ones here.
Funny how you talk about reading comprehension and then demonstrate that you don't understand why structural decline is important.
The same country Germany siphons power from in additions to your coal usage? 🤡