ceratophaga
ceratophaga t1_j0vyaew wrote
Reply to comment by diablosinmusica in Ukraine May Finally Get Greece’s Russian S-300 Missiles by srjain313
This is just wrong. The decision to phase out eventually was made by chancellor Kohl in the '80s because of the epical financial failure of the THTR-300 and the corruption scandals around the NPP in Mülheim-Kärlich. When the Greens came into power as a junior partner in the late '90s they created a plan on when to exit nuclear and how to replace it (and fossil) with renewables. Then Merkel came into power and slashed the entire renewable stuff, investing into more coal first and then into gas.
All that Fukushima did was triggering the so called "Atom-Moratorium" which was a shutdown of all NPPs for general inspections, with the results being so devastating several plants weren't allowed to reboot.
ceratophaga t1_j0vld0i wrote
Reply to comment by diablosinmusica in Ukraine May Finally Get Greece’s Russian S-300 Missiles by srjain313
Gas and electricity are two very different things, even when you can use one to create the other.
But just for the sake of the argument: The plan was to phase out natural gas by the 2030s and replace it with renewables, and use excess renewable electricity to create hydrogen or methane. Most if not all recently built natural gas plants are able to be switch to those gases, and the pipeline networks are also compatible, same as the now being-build LNG terminals.
The decision to phase out nuclear was made because it was simply too expensive.
ceratophaga t1_j0v9435 wrote
Reply to comment by diablosinmusica in Ukraine May Finally Get Greece’s Russian S-300 Missiles by srjain313
>to conduct themselves in a similar manner
Except it isn't even remotely similar. A major part of the train of thought behind becoming dependent on Russian resources was to have a guarantee for both sides that a conflict would be against their own interests. There was logic behind it - people just didn't account for Putin's willingness to nuke his own economy for decades to come.
It may have been naive, but it wasn't intentionally harmful to a defensive alliance in a manner that purchasing both S-400 and F-35s would've been.
ceratophaga t1_j422l4y wrote
Reply to comment by ekobar in Germany exported more electricity to its neighbours than it imported in 2022, even with an energy crisis at home, thanks to more weather-driven renewable power and greater demand from France by green_flash
> Would a solar power plant make sense? No. Are they build in Germany? No
My morning jogging route takes me along two of them. Granted, they aren't large, but they do exist. The funny thing is: If they exist, someone sat down and calculated that they'd make a profit off of them, so I'd say they work.