Comment on We can do all three things at once

• Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, and like most of Europe, that German population lives in cities, not random forests and mountains in the middle of nowhere where you could also do underground storage like Finland has done.

  Not to mention Germany has more land.

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  • Sniatch@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t you think it sounds crazy to build a underground storage just to have it closed for a million years. I just can’t understand why anybody would want that.

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Compared to Fossil fuels that’ll stay in the air for thousands of years while they essentially terraform the planet into something way less habitable for humans? How the hell is that more logical???

      Finland is a bit too north and cold for rapid deployment and storage of renewables. Although summer is excellent for solar, winter makes solar barely useful and can decrease some wind (newer designs help a lot with the snow issue).

      Germany is more stable, but electrical storage is still an issue, along with the larger population. Having planned at least 1 new power plant while decommissioning the older ones would have made a lot more sense while transitioning to 100% renewables. Spent nuclear fuel doesn’t use much space - the spent fuel can be stored underground in containers in deep bed rock in drilled shafts and then cemented over. It’s less effort and resources that what Germany’s many mining companies use extracting minerals or fossil fuels.

      Can’t do the same for all that pollution your damn lignite plants make though.

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      • Sniatch@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, investing in nuclear costs sooo much money. Money that would be missed for building reneweables. If the conservatives wouldnt have blocked the renewable boom we had in 2012, we would be much further. Im glad were out of that nuclear stuff.

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    • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      FFS do some research

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      • Sniatch@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But why would you do that if you can just without.

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      • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        you dig a big hold drill sideways and back fill it.

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    • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Brother its a mine-shaft or borehole not a resort and casino

      en.wikipedia.org/…/Horizontal_drillhole_disposal

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    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t water an issue under ground

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      • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        not that deep, also Fossil fuels are currently devastating our water and air. en.wikipedia.org/…/Horizontal_drillhole_disposal

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    • pendingdeletion@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not really no, it sounds logical and fairly simple.

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