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Germany is replacing nuclear power with coal and candles. They’re gonna party like it’s 1899!
Wordpress ^ | December 21, 2022 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 12/21/2022 3:46:36 PM PST by grundle

Germany is replacing nuclear power with coal and candles. They’re gonna party like it’s 1899!

Germany is replacing nuclear power with coal and candles. They’re gonna party like it’s 1899!

Sources:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/7/12/23205691/germany-energy-crisis-nuclear-power-coal-climate-change-russia-ukraine

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/12/20/1144258347/facing-an-energy-crisis-germans-stock-up-on-candles


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1 posted on 12/21/2022 3:46:36 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

lol


2 posted on 12/21/2022 3:49:17 PM PST by George from New England
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To: grundle

Maybe some little corporal will come along and restore their national pride.


3 posted on 12/21/2022 3:52:22 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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To: grundle
Brandon told us that we don't need no gas from Russia and that we're saving the world.

But just doesn't seem quite right at the present time. We're freezing our a***** off and "Z" is lounging in his hot tub with that chick wife.

He is NOT a peoples president.

4 posted on 12/21/2022 3:52:56 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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What with the coal and candles, and all, I expect to hear they need more whale oil. I see an opportunity coming for sewing lamps and harpoons? They surely won’t ask us for kerosene? I remember some stuff about how clever Chermans are. Next we’ll hear they’re putting mirrors behind their oil lamps?


5 posted on 12/21/2022 3:53:52 PM PST by OldWarBaby
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To: grundle

US energy exports are through the roof.

Guess where sone if it’s going.


6 posted on 12/21/2022 3:54:30 PM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: grundle

Well, coal works pretty well.

We have many plants still basically coal-fired.

It’s a damn sight better than “wind”.


7 posted on 12/21/2022 3:55:54 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: grundle

Clean Coal
In the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units (EGUs), also known as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards or MATS, EPA set technology-based emissions standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants (HAP) emitted by units with a capacity of more than 25 megawatts. These standards reflect levels achieved by the best-performing sources and apply to existing and new EGUs.

MATS, along with significant changes in the power sector, has achieved significant health and environmental benefits by reducing a broad range of hazardous air pollutants. By 2017 mercury emissions had dropped by 86 percent - down to approximately 4 tons. Acid gas HAP and non-mercury metals are down 96 percent and 81 percent respectively when compared to 2010 levels.
https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/mercury-and-air-toxics-standards


8 posted on 12/21/2022 4:17:54 PM PST by Haddit
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9 posted on 12/21/2022 4:30:40 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
We have many plants still basically coal-fired.

Every one of them has a target on their back.

10 posted on 12/21/2022 4:42:25 PM PST by BipolarBob (The party never stops until someone calls the cops.)
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We have only drilled a few miles into the Earth. We already know about hundreds of years of oil, natural gas, and coal. The more we search, the more we find. All of this is not fossils. Hydrocarbons are found all over the universe. Trump proved we can be energy independent, and a major exporter of energy. Drill Baby Drill!


11 posted on 12/21/2022 4:43:09 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: grundle

Now hoping to get coal in my Christmas stocking


12 posted on 12/21/2022 4:44:04 PM PST by justrepublican (Screaming like a "Vexatious requester" at a Wellstone memorial........)
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To: grundle

As accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima have shown, when nuclear power goes wrong, it can go really wrong.
__________

There were only about 50 people death in Chernobyl and NONE in Fukushima!
Basically equivalent of major bus accident!

Nukes are the safest form of energy.
But they are just not understand by most of the people.


13 posted on 12/21/2022 5:00:38 PM PST by AZJeep
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14 posted on 12/21/2022 5:33:20 PM PST by Nateman (If Mohammad was not the Anti Christ Mad Moe definitely comes in as a Strong second..)
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To: BenLurkin

“Well they blew the horns
And the walls came down
They’d all been warned
And the walls came down
They stood there laughing
They’re not laughing anymore
The walls came down”


15 posted on 12/21/2022 5:36:07 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III
...Hydrocarbons are found all over the universe.

There is a large moon around Saturn called Titan. Its atmosphere is mostly methane and it even has methane lakes!

16 posted on 12/21/2022 5:37:26 PM PST by Nateman (If Mohammad was not the Anti Christ Mad Moe definitely comes in as a Strong second..)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Libertarian dad joke
What did communists use before candles
A- electricity


17 posted on 12/21/2022 5:45:32 PM PST by blitz128
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Guess it can be changed to germans or greenies


18 posted on 12/21/2022 5:46:16 PM PST by blitz128
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Maybe some little corporal will come along and restore their national pride.”

Klaus Schwab?


19 posted on 12/21/2022 6:15:35 PM PST by dljordan
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Maybe some little corporal will come along

If you see him, tell him I have a room that needs painting.

20 posted on 12/21/2022 6:24:05 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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