Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 2 months agoGermany can do that because they opened new coal plants, plus they can buy cheap (mostly nuclear) electricity from France when their renewables are performing suboptimally and they need to meet high demand
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
No, that’s just false. Germany has been steadily reducing the amount of coal they use in favor of renewables and could easily sustain itself with the energy it produces but sometimes it’s cheaper to buy from other countries. Most of the time that’s wind energy from the nordic countries but sometimes it’s nuclear from France. France is paying billions of Euros to subsidize nuclear tho. Germany also only imported 2% of its energy in 2023 and 25% of that (so 0,5% from the total), was from French nuclear energy.
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