German Coal Plant Closes After Just Six Years to Produce Wind-Based Energy

Interesting Engineering ^ | 14 july 2021 | Brad Bergan

[353FMG]

How many coal miners are looking for jobs?

[21twelve]

France has all sorts of nuclear plants and other types near the border with Germany and sells them a lot of power. Hence the reason Germany can “go green”.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Here in DuPage County Il, the published rate is $00.785/kWh.

BUT! After all the added taxes and charges $00.15/kWh.

78.5 cents per KWH .... after taxes, etc. 15 cents KWh?

[Organic Panic]

I worked in an office building that was three years old South of Berlin. To save the planet the ripped out every single light switch, light bulb, and light fixture to install “smart” devices that we workers could not manually operate. It was infuriating. If you sat more then 30 seconds in one spot (including on the toilet) the lights shut off. The toilet sensors were especially bad because it was pitch black and if you’ve ever been in a German bathroom they generally had two doors. One for the toilet area, the other for the washroom. Sitting in the office while looking at the screen and the lights would shut off because no one was moving. I do admit though, the “green” living roof was pretty nice to have lunch. But geesh. The Germans sure do love tormenting themselves.

[mykroar]

I wonder where they are going to park the unicorns.

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”78.5 cents per KWH .... after taxes, etc. 15 cents KWh?”

7.85 cents ($00.0785) ... someone forgot a zero.
Not to worry, next time I will add an extra zero to cover my mistake. They will never notice!

[DUMBGRUNT]

—” To save the planet the ripped out every single light switch, light bulb, and light fixture to install “smart” devices that we workers could not manually operate.”

My sister and family lived in Heidelberg for many years, the brother-in-law worked for NATO.

They had many fun stories about Germans avoiding any unneeded use of electricity.
That and German dentistry, most tried to have dental work done in the States.

[higgmeister]

We had a coal plant shut down in North Georgia last year.   I was a year old when it went on line around the time my family moved near there.   It was on the Alabama Highway so we always drove past it multiple times a year visiting our Birmingham relatives.

This article advises it will take until 2015 to clean up the coal ash holding ponds on site with the great fear along the way of contaminating the Coosa River nearby.   The cleaned up water will be released into the river.   There is an untold kings ransom that went into the scrubbers, strippers and whatnot to make sure it adhered to the successive pollution edicts over the decades.

https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/news/state/coal-ash-pond-closures-at-plant-hammond-could-take-up-to-15-years/article_68fe1abf-b97e-5bdd-be08-b6e691a06623.html