Comment by brazzy
12 days ago
> Germany went the other way, rejecting nuclear and they are now dependant on carbon for their energy...
This bullshit narrative needs to die. Germany is less dependent on fossil fuels than it has ever been before, and weathered the withdrawal from Russian sources without any serious problems.
(And here's where you move the goalposts to "it could be even less less dependent!!")
Electricity costs skyrocketed and manufacturers moved to lower-cost countries. If everyone moved back to farming the land by hand and stoped using tech, they would also be less dependent on fossil fuels but I don't think many want to make that trade.
> Electricity costs skyrocketed
They are now back to the level of 2021.
> and manufacturers moved to lower-cost countries.
Some loudly talked about it in hopes of pulling in some subsidies and that got vastly overreported for propaganda reasons.
Aren't they building new coal(!!!) power plants recently?
No, unless you count 2009 as "recently", which was the time when the last coal power plant construction in Germany started (GKM 9). And yes, that was a mistake. But it was certainly not "recently".
In 2020, the last coal power plant was connected to the grid (Datteln 4). It was delayed, as it wasn't clear for quite a while whether it was even legal. But the decisions that have been made to build these plants were made 15-20 years ago.
It could be recent expansion of coal mines and recommissioning old plants that you're thinking of.