> Two percent of Germany’s land mass is designated for the use of wind turbines; most of that area will have to be deforested first.
Cutting of your nose to spite your face. Great stuff.
> Germany is ultimately putting its fate in the hands of others.
Yes.
There’s an opportunity in there for a neighbouring nation like France or somebody else to overbuild nuclear and sell power to Germany at a markup for the next 80 years.
Bad policy by one can lead to an opportunity for another.
As a German I can only agree with that. Time to kick that 80s nostalgia in the bucket and focus on achieving the climate change targets. Why not keep nuclear power until it can be replaced by fusion power? It’s time to get realistic and start weighing risks with benefits.
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This is where two longish term problems are colliding.
One is the reduction of CO2 emissions,
the second is not so much the risk of rotting Reactors (we can fix this) but more the problem of nuclear waist sides . Which must not leak on Millennia to come.
Give the Green a reactor the burns the U down to Pb and you have a workable compromise.
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Deforestation of forests that in one way or another help the ecological and climatic balance, although 2% sounds dumb, at least if they are in parks and protected areas or near them. I doubt that and that there will be only two percent, another two percent of territory will be needed for new power plants to compensate for the acceptance and replacement of the already built, and the grandiose projects for green hydrogen and the need to be №1 industry in Europe, there will be more “green areas”. It is the thinking of idiots, as I said in some places, I am already thinking of putting capacity for hydroelectric power plants in protected nature reserves or sites, wind farms have effects that are not talked about but we will report on it later, starting to wonder where they fled animals or why they have decreased in these places.
For many it’s not anxiety about nuclear energy but absolutely not knowing what to with the waste.
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> Two percent of Germany’s land mass is designated for the use of wind turbines; most of that area will have to be deforested first.
Cutting of your nose to spite your face. Great stuff.
> Germany is ultimately putting its fate in the hands of others.
Yes.
There’s an opportunity in there for a neighbouring nation like France or somebody else to overbuild nuclear and sell power to Germany at a markup for the next 80 years.
Bad policy by one can lead to an opportunity for another.
As a German I can only agree with that. Time to kick that 80s nostalgia in the bucket and focus on achieving the climate change targets. Why not keep nuclear power until it can be replaced by fusion power? It’s time to get realistic and start weighing risks with benefits.
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This is where two longish term problems are colliding.
One is the reduction of CO2 emissions,
the second is not so much the risk of rotting Reactors (we can fix this) but more the problem of nuclear waist sides . Which must not leak on Millennia to come.
Give the Green a reactor the burns the U down to Pb and you have a workable compromise.
​
Deforestation of forests that in one way or another help the ecological and climatic balance, although 2% sounds dumb, at least if they are in parks and protected areas or near them. I doubt that and that there will be only two percent, another two percent of territory will be needed for new power plants to compensate for the acceptance and replacement of the already built, and the grandiose projects for green hydrogen and the need to be №1 industry in Europe, there will be more “green areas”. It is the thinking of idiots, as I said in some places, I am already thinking of putting capacity for hydroelectric power plants in protected nature reserves or sites, wind farms have effects that are not talked about but we will report on it later, starting to wonder where they fled animals or why they have decreased in these places.
For many it’s not anxiety about nuclear energy but absolutely not knowing what to with the waste.