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Old 07-22-22, 03:49 PM   #1592
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Surprise. In Munich, Bavaria, the Greens and the SPD are moving to extend the running time of Bavarian nuclear powerplant Isar-2. So far its just a regional group, not a national move of the whole parties, and many, the majority of the Greens and in the SPD still want to prferer coal and brown coal to nuclear power. But in past days, a few Green voices launched test balloons already with statements that could be interpreted as... well...

The success in Munich still depends on Habeck, however. He wants another powergrid stresstest being run to see whether or not there would be sufficient electrical power in the winter without the three nuclear powerplants. The third such test. since the war began.



Poland meanhwile mentioned it "wants" to lease the three remaining german reactors. Of course that is unrealistic and they know it, but they mercilessly put the finger in the obvious wound of German idiocy over this issue.



This May, Germany has burned more gas for creating power than in any May since world war 2. 3 nuclear powerplants still make up for 6% of the total power production in Germany, and if these get shut down, there is no replacement for these 6% from renewables. Only coal and browncoal. The latter getting reactivated currently.



Any other environment-killing solution - just no zero-emission nuclear power! Its evil! It kills!



Fact is nuclear energy has costed practically as few lives as renewables (accidents of construction workers and the likes), and that means: far less than coal, brown coal, gas or oil (deseases caused by emissions). And that calculation includes the victims of Chernobyl and Fukushima. The kill rate of fossil energy production ranks hundreds and thousands of times above that of nuclear power..



A German spoeciality: being afraid of the wrong things, while not being afraid of the things one should be afraid of. The Germans excel in this discipline, due to to their as I call it so often: hysterical romanticism.
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