Germany’s nuclear phase-out replacement

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1. Nobody knows yet, that why the “Energiewende” is a very controversial thing over here. Nuclear Energy is green, but the political party “Die Grünen” (The Green) don’t want to have any nuclear powerplants in the future. We’re unable to build that much solar- and windparks but they still want to shut down coal- and nuclear energy until 2025. Many people are buying emergency generators and wood stoves at the moment. The “Green Deal” is just a dream to a small group of people and absolutely irrational. The “Leader” of the Green Party talked about having Gas-Powerplants…while she doesn’t want “Nord stream II” at the same time. This Party is against logic and hates humanity. They’re more like a religious cult and are becoming more and more radical. And while there soon will be no more energy for everyone, they are talking about cars with batteries and no more legal use of gas powered cars. (Now, on for the downvotes since reddit doesn’t like those facts)

2. The government had produced a study a few years back and indeed gaz was the planned replacement of nuclear energy though there is a plan to increase the volume of renewable energy (wind mostly). They were planning to double these but it wouldnt be enough to replace coal and nuclear plant.

3. Germany is in serious trouble if they believe wind and solar can sustain the entire country. Nuclear is the future. There are new advancements in efficiency and safety for reactors. Even the spent rods can be reused.

4. The answer, depressingle, is coal. And if we run out, Australia has plenty to sell us.

   And Poland has coal energy to sell us.

   And France has nuclear energy to sell us.

5. With coal of course.

6. It’s a big mess, really. There used to be a big effort to extend renewables, but that has been slowed down for various reasons. One reason was definitely that big electricity companies (those who run nuclear and coal) were too late to the game and they have massive lobbying power. I do hope that they pick up some speed again, and technically the parties that are now forming the new coalition have all promised it, but going by their track records, I won’t celebrate just yet. At least CDU/CSU seems to be out, which is a big win for everybody.

   One thing that one has to understand with regards to nuclear power is the whole 360° shift in nuclear policy around 2010/2011. Basically, the old plan was to phase out nuclear power and replace it with renewables, and to later phase out fossil fuels, too. Then in 2010, they decided to keep nuclear power for ten years longer, but instead of phasing out fossils, they would just slow down the extension of renewables. Then Fukushima happened, and they decided that sticking to their plan would lose them the next election, so they went back to the old plan of phasing out nuclear (but in a more expensive way that would require more public money to get to the nuclear/fossil electricity companies as “compensation”), but instead of going back to extending renewables quickly, they said more fossils were needed as a “bridge technology”. Again, built by the nuclear/fossil companies. It was all basically about moving public money into those large companies, and finding different ways of doing so.

7. They will replace it with coal and power from nuke plants in Czech and other bordering countries. Germany phasing out nuclear is less about sustainability than bowing to environmentalist pressure groups.