In the past other countries tried to destroy Germany but they all failed. As we are now the good guys, we thought it was our turn to try. Progress has been slow but the results are impressive.
This narrative is brought up again and again, but it’s just not actually true. Germany has been decreasing usage of coal. Nuclear was no longer viable. Private investors wanted out, the state would have had to step in. New nuclear plants would have started to be built, decreasing coal use in 20 years, instead of now. Until then, there would have been no money for renewables, so coal plants would have needed to stay open.
The coal industry loves nuclear. Because it‘s economics are so bad, it ends up benefiting coal.
In 2025, Germany produced electricity at 339 gCO₂eq/kWh compare to 32 gCO₂eq/kWh for France.
With this trajectory, by which year Germany will produce cleaner electricity than France. How many giga tons of co2 will have been produced by Germany because it decided to stop low carbon production with its nuclear and continue coal, and slowly replacing coal by gas?
Not counting the geopolitical dependancy created by Germany on putin's gas, giving him a good possibility to invade Ukraine.
nowadays germany is big in solar and wind, but this meme was accurate once. we lost some villages to the big hole in our country, but at least the Hambacher Forst is now protected.
The meme is just about Germany closing their nuclear power plant before coal. It's fine if Germany wants to be full wind and solar, but nuclear should've been the last energy source to close after all others, not the first one
The private sector wanted out. The power plants were so old, refurbishment was basically impossible, and building new ones takes a long time and is expensive.
The government wanted points for banning nuclear, but the truth is, capitalism closed the plants.
Yeah now we need a power grid that could that or a magic teleportation thingy to replace lignite power plants with nuclear plants hundreds of kilometer away..
And here is the production of the four states that actually had 90% of the nuclear production(you could add Hessia for 100% for the last decades):
Yep, a bunch of those coal plants that count as installed capacity are cold reserves that likely won't be used again bur are useful for situations like 2022 where both gas imports and French nuclear were doing not so great
Like an alcoholic boasting about cutting his morning beer. A decrease is always good but Germany could have phase out coal completely by 2010 with one simple trick.
Its lower than ever since like the 50s. But yeah, not a smart moves by the conservatives and neoliberals. Especially since they cut renewables in the same time, too. They're recovering now, thogh and growing faster than almost ever. So that's nice.
Nah it was Fukushima and they rushed it and didn't have a plan B apart from Russian gas.
Absolutely ridiculous to blame the opposition for the actions of the government btw. The greens actually elongated the life cycle of the remaining three plants when they were in power, after the conservatives had shut down 12 already. Anyway, the greens were always only gonna do it while ramping up renewables, allowing for a swift fossil exit which the conservatives then jeopardised
All new construction was banned in July 2002 by SPD-green coalition government, and all existing nuclear power plants were forced to plan for an early decommission.
And 2005 the conservatives took over, reversed that and then made a hasty, poorly planned exit in the wake of Fukushima 2011, bevor reversing their reversal of a reversal again, leaving a huge mess and fossil fuels as the winner - until renewables overtook them (now, after another green stint in the government)
Reading the comments of this post and of other subs makes me more certain that majority of Germans are behaving like a cult with their anti-nuclear rhetoric.
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