{"id":253347,"date":"2023-04-17T12:54:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T10:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=253347"},"modified":"2023-04-17T12:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T10:54:33","slug":"germany-shuts-all-of-its-nuclear-plants-and-is-warned-it-will-regret-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=253347","title":{"rendered":"Germany shuts all of its nuclear plants \u2013 and is warned it will regret it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Tallbloke’s Talkshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 16, 2023 by\u00a0oldbrew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isar nuclear power site, Bavaria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arm-waving propaganda about tiny amounts of \u2018carbon\u2019, i.e. vital carbon dioxide gas, in the atmosphere has led to this decision. One obvious problem being that wind and solar energy can\u2019t be stockpiled, or accessed on demand, hence Germany\u2019s newly increased dependence on coal power for its electricity.<\/em>
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Germany became only the third European country to shut off its nuclear power supply on Saturday when its final three reactors were severed from the grid for good, says The Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The end of German nuclear energy, a process begun by former chancellor Angela Merkel after the Fukushima disaster in 2011, came at the same time as the country seeks to wean itself off fossil fuels and manage an energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A small crowd of pro-nuclear demonstrators turned out in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Saturday to protest the end of Germany\u2019s nuclear era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the rain-drenched Pariser Platz, they watched a pantomime in which the sun and wind struggled to defeat men dressed as coal and gas until nuclear power came to the rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur reactors set records for energy production year after year,\u201d said Lucan Eichhorn, one of a small number of protesters on the pro-nuclear side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSwitching them off when they could run for years longer really is the height of stupidity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other side of the gate, Greenpeace activists set up a float that depicted nuclear energy as a dinosaur being slain by the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johana Caro, dressed in a Greenpeace cagoule, said she had come out to celebrate the end of a \u201cdangerous technology\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur reliance on nuclear stopped us investing in renewables,\u201d she asserted.
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\u201cOur mentality means that when we start something, we see it through to the bitter end,\u201d [one] nuclear advocate said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith nuclear energy, that means that we will only change course when we have hit rock bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full article here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arm-waving propaganda about tiny amounts of \u2018carbon\u2019, i.e. vital carbon dioxide gas, in the atmosphere has led to this decision. One obvious problem being that wind and solar energy can\u2019t be stockpiled, or accessed on demand, hence Germany\u2019s newly increased dependence on coal power for its electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":253353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818587,691818586,691818076,691818588,691818051,691818589,691818206],"class_list":{"0":"post-253347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-angela-merkel","9":"tag-carbon-dioxide-gas","10":"tag-co2","11":"tag-fukushima","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-nuclear-plants","14":"tag-nuclear-power","16":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0burning-Euros.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-13Uf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":285292,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=285292","url_meta":{"origin":253347,"position":0},"title":"Country On Green Transition\u2019s Leading Edge Will Fire Up Coal Plants To Meet Demand This Winter","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"27\/10\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A country on the forefront of the green transition will put several mothballed coal-fired power plants back online ahead of the upcoming winter, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, says The Daily Caller. 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