German Chancellor Scholz speaks out against new nuclear power, Deutschlandfunk reports
www.reuters.com
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

  • Ertebolle
    -4•10 months ago

    He is, in fact, arguing against keeping existing plants running too. (I suspected he believed this and he did indeed)

    rules limiting how close they can be to residential buildings (apparently 10 times the height of the turbine)

    These… don’t seem like crazy rules; I don’t know how this works in other legal systems but in the US every little podunk wind installation in a residential area is going to be tied up in years of lawsuits over this sort of thing.

    building new nuclear instead of using the same resources to build solar or wind at this point means relying more on fossil fuels

    I don’t think it is the same resources, that’s part of my point. I don’t think there’s a finite pool of money here; the limitations on solar / wind have as much to do with raw materials and suitable locations as anything else, if nuclear provides an additional path to getting carbon-free energy on line (and with the added benefit of not needing to worry about storage, which is going to bring its own rat’s nest of location + raw material problems once we get to it) then we ought to be encouraging it as well.

    • Blake [he/him]
      4•10 months ago

      At no point have I said that we should shut down nuclear power plants that are still running effectively, I must request that you redact your false claims, I do not appreciate these libellous remarks. I explained reasons behind why nuclear power plants are decommissioned. I’m sure you understand that no-one believes that nuclear power plants should be built once and run forever and ever.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike
      1•10 months ago

      Nuclear has more location issues than renewable. Do you think people want a nuclear plant in their backyard?

      It’s the same issues of will, money, and location that limit both. Why waste all of those on nuclear in 20 years when the grid is unstable today?