German Chancellor Scholz speaks out against new nuclear power, Deutschlandfunk reports
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he is against a new nuclear power debate in the country, in an interview released late on Friday with German radio station Deutschlandfunk.

Growth in german wind capacity is slowing. Soo… then the plan is to keep on with lignite and gas? Am I missing something?

Installed Wind Capacty - Germany

German Wind Capacity

  • WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is the exact same for renewables, worse, arguably, since wind farms have to be off shore to be efficient

    From the charts I’ve seen lately, offshore is much more expensive than onshore per kwhr for wind by a large margin. If that’s the case, is offshore even valuable anymore?

    • escapesamsara@discuss.online
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes, given there is no ‘empty land,’ you are always destroying something if you create a windfarm on land. On the other end of this, offshore windfarms unironically create local ecosystems. If your goal is not just decarbonization, but decarbonization in order to better the health of the planet, which it should be, then offshore would be the best option.

      See: Germany tearing down land wind farms in order to mine more coal. Those turbines aren’t going to be repurposed, they’re going to scrap yards.