[HN Gopher] German Government Lied About Nuclear
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       German Government Lied About Nuclear
        
       Author : AinderS
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2022-07-17 16:44 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | cm2187 wrote:
       | > _We have a heating problem or an industry problem, but not an
       | electricity problem -- at least not generally throughout the
       | country._
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       | I don't even get that logic. The easy substitution for gas
       | heating is electric heating (all you need is to plug a cheap
       | portable electric heater in a power socket).
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       | [edit] also it seems 12% of the german electricity is generated
       | with gas. So more nuclear should directly translate in more gas
       | available to some other use, shouldn't it?
        
       | whinvik wrote:
       | It is indeed weird that a party calling itself "Green" is so much
       | against the actual meaning of the word.
        
       | GekkePrutser wrote:
       | I don't agree with him. Continuing with Nuclear just for
       | geopolitical reasons is only a stopgap. No country except finland
       | has a permanent storage option for waste, and I think it's very
       | admirable that Germany is going nuclear-free. It's just as
       | unsustainable as fossil fuels, it's just on a much longer
       | timeframe so we can push it forward. The current climate crisis
       | shows what that leads to.
       | 
       | And it could be that those fuel rod offers were refused for a
       | technical reason or something. It feels a bit like we're only
       | getting one side of the story here.
        
         | TheLoafOfBread wrote:
         | Why would you store it? You can recycle it
         | https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/frances-efficiency-in-t...
        
         | AinderS wrote:
         | > It's just as unsustainable as fossil fuels, it's just on a
         | much longer timeframe
         | 
         | What good is solving nuclear waste storage that might become a
         | problem in a thousand years, if we are done in by global
         | warming (which nuclear can help offset) in a hundred?
        
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