▲ 12 ▼ Germany begins dismantling wind farm for coal (euobserver.com) submitted 3 years ago by Mehddit@mlem.a-smol-cat.fr [B] to c/anime_titties@mlem.a-smol-cat.fr 7 comments fedilink hide all child comments German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the Western region of North Rhine Westphalia.
[+] Jacobp100@lemmy.ml -11 points 3 years ago (2 children) Closing nuclear power plants is never replaced with renewables. It’s always this permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) Germany build more renewables than the shutdown nuclear provided. Please don't share falsehoods. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jacobp100@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Not really. 1/3 of your electricity production today is coal, while your nuclear dropped from 25% in the 90s to zero today. If you kept your nuclear - rather than shutting down your reactors well before the end of their life - you would be burning far less coal permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) you would be burning far less coal we might be burning less coal, but how much less in percent? please qualify your statements with sources. Also the amount of generated power is different in 1990 to today, so the percentage of nuclear would have dropped anyway. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jacobp100@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) Most European countries including Germany use less electricity now than in the 90s, so the percentage would have risen if you kept the same output of nuclear power Nuclear peaked at 11% in the 90s and is now zero You can see an energy mix time series on here- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?country=~DEU permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago Dont confuse primary energy with electricity generation. Primary includes heating and more. And Germany is producing more electricity now than in the 90s. Not as much as I thought but not less. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Vegoon@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago According to German newspapers the dismantling is to get more overburden to fill up other parts of the pit, 400 meter deep holes to generate a lake area. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) Germany build more renewables than the shutdown nuclear provided. Please don't share falsehoods. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jacobp100@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Not really. 1/3 of your electricity production today is coal, while your nuclear dropped from 25% in the 90s to zero today. If you kept your nuclear - rather than shutting down your reactors well before the end of their life - you would be burning far less coal permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) you would be burning far less coal we might be burning less coal, but how much less in percent? please qualify your statements with sources. Also the amount of generated power is different in 1990 to today, so the percentage of nuclear would have dropped anyway. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jacobp100@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) Most European countries including Germany use less electricity now than in the 90s, so the percentage would have risen if you kept the same output of nuclear power Nuclear peaked at 11% in the 90s and is now zero You can see an energy mix time series on here- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?country=~DEU permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago Dont confuse primary energy with electricity generation. Primary includes heating and more. And Germany is producing more electricity now than in the 90s. Not as much as I thought but not less. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jacobp100@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Not really. 1/3 of your electricity production today is coal, while your nuclear dropped from 25% in the 90s to zero today. If you kept your nuclear - rather than shutting down your reactors well before the end of their life - you would be burning far less coal permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) you would be burning far less coal we might be burning less coal, but how much less in percent? please qualify your statements with sources. Also the amount of generated power is different in 1990 to today, so the percentage of nuclear would have dropped anyway. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jacobp100@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) Most European countries including Germany use less electricity now than in the 90s, so the percentage would have risen if you kept the same output of nuclear power Nuclear peaked at 11% in the 90s and is now zero You can see an energy mix time series on here- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?country=~DEU permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago Dont confuse primary energy with electricity generation. Primary includes heating and more. And Germany is producing more electricity now than in the 90s. Not as much as I thought but not less. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) you would be burning far less coal we might be burning less coal, but how much less in percent? please qualify your statements with sources. Also the amount of generated power is different in 1990 to today, so the percentage of nuclear would have dropped anyway. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jacobp100@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) Most European countries including Germany use less electricity now than in the 90s, so the percentage would have risen if you kept the same output of nuclear power Nuclear peaked at 11% in the 90s and is now zero You can see an energy mix time series on here- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?country=~DEU permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago Dont confuse primary energy with electricity generation. Primary includes heating and more. And Germany is producing more electricity now than in the 90s. Not as much as I thought but not less. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jacobp100@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) Most European countries including Germany use less electricity now than in the 90s, so the percentage would have risen if you kept the same output of nuclear power Nuclear peaked at 11% in the 90s and is now zero You can see an energy mix time series on here- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?country=~DEU permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago Dont confuse primary energy with electricity generation. Primary includes heating and more. And Germany is producing more electricity now than in the 90s. Not as much as I thought but not less. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago Dont confuse primary energy with electricity generation. Primary includes heating and more. And Germany is producing more electricity now than in the 90s. Not as much as I thought but not less. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Vegoon@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago According to German newspapers the dismantling is to get more overburden to fill up other parts of the pit, 400 meter deep holes to generate a lake area. permalink fedilink source parent
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