Germany will shut down three nuclear power plants on Friday even as Europe faces one of its worst ever energy crises, following Angela Merkel’s timetable for phasing out atomic energy.
With energy prices already on the rise and tensions higher than ever between Europe and key gas supplier Russia, the closure of the plants in Brokdorf, Grohnde and Gundremmingen could well tighten the squeeze.
The move will halve remaining nuclear capacity in Germany and reduce energy output by around four gigawatts — equivalent to the power produced by 1,000 wind turbines.
Crazy move
What. That doesn’t make sense. Is there a massive outcry against nuclear energy in Germany? But that’s, like, one of the cleanest forms of energy we can produce at a scale…
Idiotic, this is what drove them into the arms of Gazprom. They’ll probably end up buying electricity from the French and the Czechs, both of whom are still building nuclear plants
This all started when they got spooked by Fukushima,, but that was an outdated, 1964 single walled reactor hit by a tsunami… None of these factors are even possible in Germany
It’s a crime against the climate
5his is so wrong. Politicians do only the things that make their voters feel nice.
Such a dumb move.
German horror story:”Atom splits to produce energy efficiently.”
This means an increase in the price of electricity in the countries that export electricity.
Idiots. They will start to pressure other smaller EU countries to do the same and cause a huge price rise in electricity. Guess its time to be friends with the Russians.
This really is a sign of time. It’s like refusing the covid vaccine for dubious reasons. Science tells you it’s better and safer. But no, it’s all so scary!
Idiocracy.
So the legend with ” German mentality where everything is organized and well done” is ended? Hopefully yes
I wish a lot of brown and black outs result from this, maybe then a semblance of realisation of how utterly moronic this is will hit some Germans.
What the fuck do they want to do? Are they crazy? Also this is the worst moment to do that.
Fraaance, come look at this
Germany is going full retard again.
Time to leave them off the grid
Energy crisis? Germany has had a net overproduction of energy and with the closing NPPs this has overproduction has become smaller but hasnt gone away. And with these 3 reactors going offline now and the remaining 3 next year Germany has plenty of time to replace them with renewables. Why do i know that they have time? Bc even under the former, anti-green, conservative Government the shutdowns never let to outtages.
Aggravate the crisis serious
My turn to post this tomorrow.
do not go gently into that good night 😴💤
I loved the phrasing on Dutch radio news today: “Germany wants to start *rapidly* closing its power plants because of the Fukushima disaster *a decade ago*.” It almost felt like a dig.
Germany planning to buy more gas?
to buy power from coal plants in poland
This has been the worst move in the history of moves, maybe ever.
This seems unwise at best. Kind of poor decision making from Green-oriented public/parties who wants to have its cake, eat it, that the cake should be made vegan, without an oven or ingredients, but miraculously satisfy all nutritional needs.
When you prefer to be Putin little bitch instead of burying a few kilos of nuclear waste.
Misconceptions you will see in this comment section: Nuclear power is expensive. It costs around 0.13€ per kWh. Onshore wind energy costs 0.03€ / kWh and solar 0.04€ / kWh. And renewables are getting cheaper and cheaper. Right now there’s an overproduction in the north of Germany. The solution for this is expanding the power grid and not nuclear power plants. Germany imports gas because many buildings still use gas for heating, not for electricity. As of right now, there are no adequate nuclear waste repositories. Some forms of nuclear waste continue to be dangerous for tens of thousands of years.
Of the same people gonna throw the same long debunked arguments around. Nuclear is over. Deal with it
I criticize our government a lot, but they’re at least looking into opening more nuclear instead of closing it down.
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Germany will shut down three nuclear power plants on Friday even as Europe faces one of its worst ever energy crises, following Angela Merkel’s timetable for phasing out atomic energy.
With energy prices already on the rise and tensions higher than ever between Europe and key gas supplier Russia, the closure of the plants in Brokdorf, Grohnde and Gundremmingen could well tighten the squeeze.
The move will halve remaining nuclear capacity in Germany and reduce energy output by around four gigawatts — equivalent to the power produced by 1,000 wind turbines.
Crazy move
What. That doesn’t make sense. Is there a massive outcry against nuclear energy in Germany? But that’s, like, one of the cleanest forms of energy we can produce at a scale…
Idiotic, this is what drove them into the arms of Gazprom. They’ll probably end up buying electricity from the French and the Czechs, both of whom are still building nuclear plants
This all started when they got spooked by Fukushima,, but that was an outdated, 1964 single walled reactor hit by a tsunami… None of these factors are even possible in Germany
It’s a crime against the climate
5his is so wrong. Politicians do only the things that make their voters feel nice.
Such a dumb move.
German horror story:”Atom splits to produce energy efficiently.”
This means an increase in the price of electricity in the countries that export electricity.
Idiots. They will start to pressure other smaller EU countries to do the same and cause a huge price rise in electricity. Guess its time to be friends with the Russians.
This really is a sign of time. It’s like refusing the covid vaccine for dubious reasons. Science tells you it’s better and safer. But no, it’s all so scary!
Idiocracy.
So the legend with ” German mentality where everything is organized and well done” is ended? Hopefully yes
I wish a lot of brown and black outs result from this, maybe then a semblance of realisation of how utterly moronic this is will hit some Germans.
What the fuck do they want to do? Are they crazy? Also this is the worst moment to do that.
Fraaance, come look at this
Germany is going full retard again.
Time to leave them off the grid
Energy crisis? Germany has had a net overproduction of energy and with the closing NPPs this has overproduction has become smaller but hasnt gone away. And with these 3 reactors going offline now and the remaining 3 next year Germany has plenty of time to replace them with renewables. Why do i know that they have time? Bc even under the former, anti-green, conservative Government the shutdowns never let to outtages.
Aggravate the crisis serious
My turn to post this tomorrow.
do not go gently into that good night 😴💤
I loved the phrasing on Dutch radio news today: “Germany wants to start *rapidly* closing its power plants because of the Fukushima disaster *a decade ago*.” It almost felt like a dig.
Germany planning to buy more gas?
to buy power from coal plants in poland
This has been the worst move in the history of moves, maybe ever.
This seems unwise at best. Kind of poor decision making from Green-oriented public/parties who wants to have its cake, eat it, that the cake should be made vegan, without an oven or ingredients, but miraculously satisfy all nutritional needs.
When you prefer to be Putin little bitch instead of burying a few kilos of nuclear waste.
Misconceptions you will see in this comment section: Nuclear power is expensive. It costs around 0.13€ per kWh. Onshore wind energy costs 0.03€ / kWh and solar 0.04€ / kWh. And renewables are getting cheaper and cheaper. Right now there’s an overproduction in the north of Germany. The solution for this is expanding the power grid and not nuclear power plants. Germany imports gas because many buildings still use gas for heating, not for electricity. As of right now, there are no adequate nuclear waste repositories. Some forms of nuclear waste continue to be dangerous for tens of thousands of years.
Of the same people gonna throw the same long debunked arguments around. Nuclear is over. Deal with it
I criticize our government a lot, but they’re at least looking into opening more nuclear instead of closing it down.