timdaub
@timdaub.eth
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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Pedro Gomes
@pedrouid.eth
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? 😅
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timdaub
@timdaub.eth
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)
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Pedro Gomes
@pedrouid.eth
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
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Pedro Gomes
@pedrouid.eth
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
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timdaub
@timdaub.eth
Germany has phased out Nuclear since 2002 or so btw. And yeah, maybe you‘re right and it‘s regressive regarding overall CO2 output. But as I mentioned elsewhere, Germany has days where renewables produce ZERO electricity. So how to bridge that gap? https://i.imgur.com/zFuY0oJ.jpg
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