German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the Western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

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    1 year ago

    Closing nuclear power plants is never replaced with renewables. It’s always this

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        1 year ago

        Not really. 1/3 of your electricity production today is coal, while your nuclear dropped from 25% in the 90s to zero today. If you kept your nuclear - rather than shutting down your reactors well before the end of their life - you would be burning far less coal

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      According to German newspapers the dismantling is to get more overburden to fill up other parts of the pit, 400 meter deep holes to generate a lake area.