German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lauded the German car industry's efforts at electrification at Munich's IAA car show and condemned protests as "irritating" as he announced a new law to expand the number of electric vehicle charging stations.
Yeah that was some stupid shit, but coal was phased out at the same rate as nuclear in the last years. You also got to take into account that the decision to phase out nuclear was made before a critical mass (lol) of people realized that CO2 is a far bigger problem. I think the plants could be run some years more, but it takes more to flip a switch for that to work. We neither have personnel nor the supply chains anymore and building new plants will take decades, so it’s far easier to just put all effort into renewables.
As they banned nuclear that means it’ll be all power coming from coal burning?
Yes because we have nothing else and never will.
To be fair, they were dismantling a wind farm to mine the coal instead just the other day, but I see your point of course.
Yeah that was some stupid shit, but coal was phased out at the same rate as nuclear in the last years. You also got to take into account that the decision to phase out nuclear was made before a critical mass (lol) of people realized that CO2 is a far bigger problem. I think the plants could be run some years more, but it takes more to flip a switch for that to work. We neither have personnel nor the supply chains anymore and building new plants will take decades, so it’s far easier to just put all effort into renewables.
That sounds like progress
It’s hard to do the math with low uncertainty, but it is likely still less carbon intensive to burn coal too charge EVs than to use ICEs.
Even with transmission and storage losses.
The reason for this is that the turbines in a power plant are operating very near to the peak possible thermodynamic efficiency (something like 60%).
ICEs operate at a much lower efficiency than that.
Excellent point, thank you!
But also still: fuck coal! Heh
It’s irrelevant. The coal usage is down, it isn’t up. There is an exception for when France was doing huge maintenance on their nuclear power plants.
It’s telling that the coal misinformation is brought up so often.
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And Russian LNG!