Posted on 05/10/2023 11:39:43 PM PDT by grundle
In April, Germany closed its last three nuclear plants.
Had Germany kept its nuclear plants running from 2010, it could have slashed its use of coal for electricity to 13 percent by now. Today’s figure is 31 percent.
Already more lives might have been lost just in Germany because of air pollution from coal power than from all of the world’s nuclear accidents to date, Fukushima and Chernobyl included.
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Garbage. The true number of people who have died from Nuclear contamination in the world cannot even be calculated as many of those deaths take years to play out. Likewise estimates as to how many people die from carbon emissions are pretty much made up to serve another purpose. There really is no true way to even calculate them. Also because they happen over a very long period of time where other factors contribute to any outcome. In both cases the numbers are imaginary.
More or less true....true data to support this idea doesn’t exist.
Now, if you ask regular Germans about cancer-related deaths since the summer of 1986...virtually everyone will note death by cancer went up (but you can’t pin this upon Chernobyl). There are examples where ‘dust’ collection occurred in German strawberry fields and radioactivity was noted.
I might also note, in this Ukraine-Russia war...that attempt to take over the Chernobyl area by the Russians....resulted in their troops digging tons of trenches and getting a fair dose of radioactivity.
I’ll just say in the end...Germans will be paying double of what French or Polish people pay...in order to feel good about ‘evil’ nuke power, yet when shortages of power occur and they go beyond the border to buy power....it’ll be nuke power that they purchase. (Best not to mention this to Germans)
The US is exporting record amounts of energy.
Where is it going?
Maybe here...?
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coal-imports-increase-in-2022-amid-ukraine-war/a-64818198
And then there’s this...
Export deal is liquid natural gas (LNG), which is going to ports on the NW coast of Germany, then loaded into the underground reserve system. Same deal with UAE.
All to make up for loss of Nord Stream I/II Russian natural gas.
If you go to any German and ask their heating bill situation...it’s pretty dramatic talk. Just doubling of 2021 bills....has come and passed. Most folks are paying near triple on their heat bill now. This of course...drives the massive push by the gov’t toward heat pump technology and higher use of electricity down the road.
You walk into any German pub/restaurant back in Jan/Feb...marginally warm. Schools complaining of the heat bills. Hospitals are adding more cost to their bills because of heat. Even walking into a grocery store back in Feb...you would have commented that it was five to ten degrees less than normal.
It’s like Panem. They have District France for Nuclear power plants.
Did you ever hear of Cesium-137? It shows up in wine bottled after 1945 when the N- Bomb testing began. It doe not occur in nature. Contamination from Japan is being found in California wine. I wonder how many people die from associated illnesses?
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