On the Germany Nuclear thing, I have to say I‘m surprised how polarizing it is. 
Honestly, I don‘t care pro/contra, Nuclear is probably fine. Still think there are nuances to the German way.
But it seems a lot of people here are Nuclear-pilled without much reflection. It’s a culture war topic.

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IDK it seems a pretty objective topic to me 🤔

Either you focus on improving nuclear waste treatment

Or you go back to coal and fossil fuels 🙃

Plus they had to heavily relay on Russian gas during a major global conflict with them 

How more objective can you get than this? 😅

No, this discounts a new important points

- Nuclear and renewables are incompatible
- U can‘t just transition Germany in the short term to 100% Nuclear given costs and existing infra
- Russian gas was an intentional German policy to apeace Russia and it failed (but arguing beyond that is hindsight-bias)

It is a fact that “nuclear and renewables are incompatible” but the Green party failed to account for the energy gap

If you remove Nuclear as quickly as Germany did but do not create enough renewable energy to replace it 

Then you just made the carbon footprint worse… even if you use foreign gas

Reversing Germany’s massive investment into Nuclear even if it took 10 years and then not creating at least double the energy capacity through renewables sounds ridiculous

It would have been better to start decommissioning Nuclear only after renewables were already the dominant energy source

If anyone looks at this chart and still thinks that Nuclear was the problem then it’s really hard to discuss this topic

I would have invested more into Nuclear to replace Coal and Oil

At least until Renewables could properly take over https://i.imgur.com/3QZJX3e.jpg

The great thing about countries having different policies is that we can compare them over time

France heavily relies on Nuclear and IMO that will pay off in the long-term 

Germany on the other hand will have to wait 1-2 decades for renewables to be good enough and it will unfortunately use Coal and Oil heavily

yeah but this is a bit misleading, IMO it‘s better to look at „electricity“ production (not „energy consumption“) where renewables are at 40%. The EU has outlawed combustion engines so steps are taken. https://i.imgur.com/1KUGpLC.jpg