RE: German Nuclear Power Phaseout
January 3, 2020 at 8:27 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2020 at 8:32 pm by Alex K.)
(January 3, 2020 at 8:25 pm)Mr Greene Wrote: Ideally we'll figure out the cold fusion thing if it ever gets properly funded but we're still decades away from that.
100% renewables, nice ambition but obviously there's problems in funding (as always).
We're already seeing the effects of climate change so anything to reduce that is welcome.
As such I'd have said keep the nuclear stations active temporarily until they're ready to fund a decent alternative.
Forget cold fusion, it's not a real thing. Ordinary fusion, sure, but as you say that's indeed going to take too long to wait for it unless there's a completely unforseen breakthrough... (ITER and DEMO are scheduled for 2035 and 45 or so)
We'd have to build 130 reactor blocks to completely decarbonize all energy sectors in the country using only uranium, that's also not cheap. Anti nuclear activists won't tire telling you that they would be impossibly expensive,but looking at the numbers (investments in renewables so far+cost of storage) that criticism doesn't seem to hold up to scrutiny.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
