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[–] [email protected] 138 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (17 children)

The UK likes to go the other way by talking up a ridiculous goal and then immediately failing it, like "Our goal is to produce zero CO2 and become the global leader in renewables by 2025” and then immediately open a new coal mine.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (16 children)

That's basically what Germany did. They recently shut down their nuclear plants and restarted their coal plants.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The actual problem was stopping to fund solar, smashing a hundred thousand jobs in renewables under the pretense of "saving workers". ~20k jobs in coal heroically saved.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But they could easily do it (and get paid by fossil fuel lobbyists) because the discussion is completely twisted anyway. And most constructive discussion of the topic will be drowned in fairy tales about renewables not working, nuclear being our only savior and other bullshit.

Basically this whole thread is a perfect example. We discuss electricity production because that's the direction the nuclear social media cult is pushing every discussion into...

The actual report linked in this thread is for a German report of construction and traffic sectors not meeting their emission reduction goals... and I'm pretty sure neither coal nor nuclear is used to power cars nowadays. And the electrification bottle neck for transport is the production pace of electric cars, their still too high prize, limits on loading infra-structure etc., not actually energy per se.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thank you for debunking this nuclear fanboy bullshit that gets repeated all the time.

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