Germany to Bring Back Coal-Fired Power Plants
Germany to Bring Back Coal-Fired Power Plants
Germany is bringing back some of its coal power plants online ahead of the winter season amid concerns about a potential shortage of natural gas supplies. Germany has cracked down on its coal power plants as part of transitioning out from fossil fuel energy. However, as the Russia-Ukraine war dented...
Live your best life Germany, don't let the haters tell you otherwise
Could you just, you know, not?
25Incredible stupid that they shutdown nuclear reactors, instead of these coal plants.
23If you care to google for even one minute you will see that Germany has reduced coal to a historic minimum even while reducing nuclear power.
But that doesn't make as good of a headline to rave over.And if the conservative former government of 16 years hadn't slowed actual green energy infrastructure as much as they did Germanys energy bill could look way better even.
4Nuclear and green energy go hand-in-hand. For a stable and most CO2 efficient power network, nuclear provides the stable base energy, and green provide the changing load on top of it. If grid is only made of green energy, you will always have to have reserve of coal/oil/gas which is started when green production is not enough. You cannot resolve this by increasing the green capacity, because all of them have same dependencies.
Coal is the stupidest one, but gas/oil are not really that much better.
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They literally shut down nuclear to then power up coal...
What in the actual fu.......
19Didn't you hear? Nuclear is not clean! Coal on the other hand...
The nuclear hate in Germany was always about populism.
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Fucking great. From the summary let's hope they only use it if they actually run out of NG.
8A coal plant takes weeks to start up, so I assume those reactivated plants from the emergency reserve will have to run the whole winter duration at least at low power. So in case of a very cold winter and gas shortage, the emergency plants can be turned up.
9They are already in use and currently producing 2x the amount of energy as our gas plants. This is about starting up additional ones for winter.
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As is tradition.
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2But, it actually loads. If your browser has something like a reader mode, turn that on. I wanted to put the article into the comment, but I am not sure about issues with copyright.
1True, that works.
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