Post Aph7rL4FUIM9cZPwXo by RichiH@chaos.social
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(DIR) Post #Aph6c5NnQ9rGg5iuzg by collectifission@greennuclear.online
2025-01-02T14:00:31Z
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France and Germany: Electricity Compared in 2024This chart by Radiant Energy Group shows all 8784 hours in the year.Germany averaged 349 grams of CO2 per kWh with wind, coal, solar, gas, and biogas.France averaged 19 grams with nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, and gas.France was 18 times cleaner.
(DIR) Post #Aph6c67seoimz1HipE by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-01-03T04:46:34Z
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@collectifission Tell me again about how enlightened, benevolent Germany is exporting clean renewable energy to its benighted neighbours. Last word I had from my friends in Munich was that the uncapped price of electricity was up over €1/kWh, thanks to an extended period of overcast and calm.
(DIR) Post #Aph6u7UWJvX6QhT4gy by collectifission@greennuclear.online
2025-01-03T04:49:44Z
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@publius It's funny, as EE-fundis (I'll use the German acronym here as it's mostly Germans making this point) insist that importing electricity is not a big issue at all.
(DIR) Post #Aph7rL4FUIM9cZPwXo by RichiH@chaos.social
2025-01-02T15:37:06Z
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@collectifission France had to shut down their reactors in winter and summer and import power from Germany.Nuclear is the most expensive power source by far, and quite literally the only uninsurable business allowed to operate in Western countries. We have no idea how to get rid of the waste.Germany is ramping up renewables quickly, but should be even quicker.But just realizing your account name and instance, we are unlikely to agree.
(DIR) Post #Aph7rMKwlhJ7YeEnD6 by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-01-03T05:00:31Z
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@RichiH @collectifission Happily that is all quite wrong.If you knew anything about the insurance business, you would know that nuclear power plants are in fact insured, and that they are technically "uninsurable" only in the sense that not enough nuclear accidents causing loss or damage have occured to allow the compilation of actuarial tables.As for waste, the Canadians disclosed the vitrification process at Geneva in 1958, before fission provided significant energy to any nation.
(DIR) Post #Aph84y3lpJ3eJmgzc8 by Sweetshark@chaos.social
2025-01-02T14:37:41Z
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@collectifission In other news, Germany reduced coal and lignite produced electricity by more than 150 TWh in then decade since 2014, while France did not add a single nuclear plant in than time (but phased out Fesselheim).
(DIR) Post #Aph84z4A5KxtRHsorY by collectifission@greennuclear.online
2025-01-02T14:38:41Z
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@Sweetshark Yeah, closing Fessenheim to please the Germans was a huge error imnsho :(
(DIR) Post #Aph8508S6rzWkstlBo by Sweetshark@chaos.social
2025-01-02T17:56:03Z
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@collectifission That didnt impact the CO2 output in any relevant way though as it was just replaced with a more modern fossilfree source: renewables. But great to see that Germany replicates the decarbonisation of the Messner plan - just with modern technology.
(DIR) Post #Aph8512SkcnJYb6UUa by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-01-03T05:02:52Z
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@Sweetshark @collectifission Has Germany in fact decarbonized its energy supply in any meaningful way? The contention seems difficult to support, if we discount the closure of the East German lignite burners shortly after 1990, with the concomitant collapse of so much other economic activity there.
(DIR) Post #Aphd9CkGGXszbL4FKS by Sweetshark@chaos.social
2025-01-03T10:50:52Z
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@publius @collectifission That is not "difficult to support" as between 2014 and 2024 the amount of electricity produced from coal and lignite dropped by 150TWh.
(DIR) Post #Aphfo6jji4O6kPSBxQ by RichiH@chaos.social
2025-01-03T11:20:49Z
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@publius @collectifission citing Bild already invalidates any argument built on top of that.Yes, they are insured up to a maximum of ~$5/5€ billion as the reinsurance companies can not underwrite anything more. So they got a special exception in all local laws. Even minor accidents, which happen every 10-20 years on average create damages vastly beyond those measly few billions and those costs are socialized, with the profit-through-subsidies beforehand being privatized.As such: uninsurable.