Posted on 07/12/2022 4:06:28 AM PDT by McGruff
Germany's vice chancellor on Tuesday defended the government's commitment to ending the use of nuclear power at the end of this year, arguing that keeping its few remaining reactors running would be complex and do little to address the problems caused by a possible natural gas shortfall.
Germany's main opposition party has called repeatedly for the country's last three nuclear reactors to be kept online after the end of December amid fears that Russia may halt natural gas supplies entirely. There's some sympathy for that position in the ranks of the pro-business Free Democrats, the smallest party in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing coalition.
But government officials argue that natural gas isn't so much a factor in generating electricity as in fueling industrial processes and providing heating.
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Guy is an idiot.
That power will have to made up somehow, and it won’t be wind or solar.
The Anti nukers are purposely trying to bring down capitalism, just like they always have been.
Is there anybody in the modern elite leadership who have any real knowledge of economics? Just because you can’t fuel a car from nuclear, you sure as heck can heat water and generate heat for buildings from it, taking the LNG and fuel load off of other forms.
It is a sum total of all the energy sources, not each individual slice all by their lonesome.
He probably thinks the electric cars to come will run on Wind. I've got news for him. Germany's power grid probably won't hold up with the mass of electric cars planned. And Wind alone won't cut it.
I am amazed at such unrealistic thinking these days by politicians. Most of the time they can't find their way out a paper bag.
It sounds like they committed to this way back when no new reactors were planned. I think reactors do have an end-of-life. Stored spent fuel rods seems the hard limit, to me.
They were stupid to plan for non-existent alternatives.
If you have enough nuclear powered electricity, you can substitute electric heat for gas heat, freeing up gas for other purposes.
Solar and wind cannot do the job.
The worlds economies will come to a sluggish halt with the removal and/or increased prices for fossil fuels. This is not rocket science.
Energy prices are going to go INSANE!
During his term as governor, Gray Davis called the Nuclear Regulatory Agency about how soon they could get a power plant up and running in California. They replied that from application for permit to going online would take a minimum of 20 years.
TerraPower, this new reactor is suppose to be able to use spent rods as fuel.
Yes, the government does indeed want people to die.
Hard to fight a war when you don’t have enough energy to run your industries, much less keep the heat on.
For all the bleating the Germans do about the ‘mean old Russians’, they sure don’t look ready to defend themselves.
The EU is starting to get it
The European Parliament on Wednesday backed EU rules labelling investments in gas and nuclear power plants as climate-friendly, throwing out an attempt to block the law that has exposed deep rifts between countries over how to fight climate change.
Frickin liberals are the most stupid, obtuse and arrogant mongrels extant.
“They replied that from application for permit to going online would take a minimum of 20 years.”
A nuclear submarine can be built in a little over two years. The reactor room is about the size of your living room. It drives the equivalent of a building through the water at speeds of thirty knots. It can be docked at an island and power cables connected and it can power the whole place. But a similar reactor on land cost billions and billions of dollars and takes twenty years. Why is that? It’s because the politicians want it to cost that much and take that long. They want to employ lots of people, buy lots of steel and concrete. It takes that long and costs that much because the reason for building is not providing power. It’s a jobs program. It’s the power to direct money to people who will support you running for office to keep the money coming.
Incidentally, the reason submarines and any ship are that big and cost that much is the same.
The general path in Germany...once you build a nuke plant....it has a 20-year cycle, then a maintenance down-period for renovation, then get recertified for a second 20-year period. At that conclusion, you shut down.
In this case, after Fukushima...the first 20-year cycle was deemed to be finished, with no second life. At that point, the profit-plan was screwed up and the electrical analysts just gave up...no desire to fight.
Three plants still active now....all to close by end of 2022. Even if you wanted them to continue on...the problem is a lack of rods (only enough to get through the spring of 2023). So it the government comes calling and says ‘stay longer’...the response is...give us a plan of how long and we can project rod purchases.
This is where the government is screwed up...they can’t say in front of the environmentalists...they want another ten years (minimum).
For the record, as of 2020...12-percent of electric power in Germany...was produced by Russian natural gas. If you wanted to replace that....nuke energy is the only low-cost and clean method to do that. Somewhere in the mix...at least three plants (probably six) need to continue on.
Ya think?????
And it’s slowly working.
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