The German Foreign Office simultaneously fact checks and trolls Trump over at the hellsite. Hilarious.
-
The German Foreign Office simultaneously fact checks and trolls Trump over at the hellsite. Hilarious.
-
@petergleick feel like, 'we'll stop using coal in 14 years' isn't a great dunk if I'm honest
-
Trassliga havsnöret Tomas ✅replied to peter last edited by
@peterdroberts coal power in Germany is decreasing steadily having about halfed the last 5 years. See brown and black line. About 130TWh 2023, and about twice that 2018. We also see that natural gas isnt increasing much either. While nuclear is phased out at that.
It's renewables on the rise. ️
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts @petergleick
-
peterreplied to Trassliga havsnöret Tomas ✅ last edited by
@TomasHelleberg @petergleick cool. now show me the graph for france
-
Beautiful Downtown Mannheim 🗑️ 🔥replied to Peter Gleick last edited by
Maybe in 2038 the german government will also discover the Fediverse
-
@peterdroberts @TomasHelleberg @petergleick
The same France that imported German electricity because half of their reactors were shut down in 2023 due to failed inspections and high surface cooling water temperatures?
The average age of a French reactor is 38 years. Most of the GenII reactors had a design life of 30 years. They have a refurbishment program to provide life extensions for some units. It will run into the tens of billions.
The last new reactor built in France is Flamanville-3. It was supposed to be commissioned in 2012, but may finally be commissioned this year, a full 12 years late and estimated to be close to €10B over the initial €3.3B budget. A French court audit had estimated the costs closer to €19B when all was said and done. For a single 1660MW unit.
The French nuclear industry is in a mess right now as they also had massive overruns at Olkiluoto, Taishan and Hinkley Point C. If it wasn't for multiple injections of cash, and the government nationalizing Électricité de France, it would be insolvent.
The German reactors were of similar vintage. They were going to need a costly life extension program plus new reactors, or the money could be used for alternatives. They went with alternatives.
Merkel did screw up by knee-jerk shutting down of reactors before they timed out, in order to run the coal plants longer, but that was a sop to the coal constituency. -
Beautiful Downtown Mannheim 🗑️ 🔥replied to Arcane Alchemist last edited by
@ArcaneAlchemist @petergleick I am aware and yet that post was made on twitter / x - a platform for which there are still legal proceedings ongoing, to find out, whether it can be used by german governmental organizations.
That would be Aktenzeichen VG Köln: 13 K 1419/23 / ÖA -
GunChleocreplied to Beautiful Downtown Mannheim 🗑️ 🔥 last edited by
@bdm @petergleick @ArcaneAlchemist They are actually here at @AuswaertigesAmt but stopped posting in January