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Germany will literally do anything to avoid undoing the foolish #atomausstieg
Germany counts on back-up coal power plants to drive down prices - euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/section/eet/news/germany-counts-on-back-up-coal-power-plants-to-drive-down-prices/
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@jmaris
1) What Germany are you talking about? Current government? Future Government? Population?
2) Note that you are talking about an #atomausstiegsausstiegausstiegausstieg. Now THAT really sounds foolish.
#NAFO @jmaris@eupolicy.social@Gormfull all of them. Merkel started it but everyone has continued the delusion. Now they want to destroy the planet even more by burning more coal rather than admitting to their mistake and reversing it.
@jmaris Please note, the issue is more complex than that.
The original Atomausstieg was done by Schroeder in (I think) 2002. It was reversed by Merkel in 2009 or 2010. After Fukushima the reversal was reversed in 2011. Now, even if germany would re-re-re-verse its stance, the guarantees that any commercial provider of nuclear would justifiably need, in case Germany turned around again, would make Germany the most expensive place for nuclear in the world.
@jmaris
And arguably, nuclear is not that cheap anyway.
Please also note that while German energy is far from clean it has, over the past decades, become substantially cleaner than it used to be (with an all time low in CO2/KWh in 2024). It is expected that due to all the renewable project having obtained permission in the past 2-3 years, this trend will supposedly continue.