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Nuclear power without perspective​

Although shutting down the last nuclear power plant in Germany sounds illogical at first glance, it is nevertheless justified
Column / Rudolf Skarics
May 19, 2023, 15:31

Germany is in the process of shutting down its last nuclear reactors. This doesn't really sound all that logical in view of the increasing demand for electrical power, on the one hand to supply the rapidly growing electromobility with energy, and on the other hand to replace natural gas. At the same time, coal-fired power plants continue to operate.

Not economical
It would be logical to continue using nuclear power, which is largely CO2-free, to save the climate. However, most nuclear power plants in Europe are approaching the end of their planned useful life or are already beyond it. That makes them dangerous. At the same time, safety upgrades are extremely costly.

But from a free-market point of view alone, nuclear power has no future: It is the most expensive way of providing energy, affordable only with extremely large amounts of tax money. There is little interest from private investors. No insurance company wants to insure it.

No success story
If you take the money and put it into the further development of other forms of energy and energy-saving measures, it is possible to reduce CO2 emissions much faster than by upgrading old nuclear power plants and building new ones.

And nuclear power is not a success story anyway: Despite huge lobbies in the background, its share of global energy supply is only five percent. The only thing that has any radiance here is the nuclear waste we are leaving behind for millennia. Besides, as drought increases, it becomes more and more difficult to cool nuclear power plants. (Rudolf Skarics, 5/19/2023)

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[Asian tech support]

But from a free-market point of view alone, nuclear power has no future: It is the most expensive way of providing energy, affordable only with extremely large amounts of tax money.

Germany could stop importing sandniggers and have a few nuclear plants, but it's funnier to sneed and watch them be cold.

 

[draggs]

Faggots like this Rudolf Skarics guy are so repulsive they have even turned the most pozloaded people on earth, the French and Germans, against them and their envirolunacy.

 

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

Nuclear power is off the table because Blackrock and WEF need to invest in Green to further their goals.
Sure the idea of Nuclear cars is silly but logically a derivative of Nuclear Fusion that could fit into cars could save time and fuel. Honestly if the people behind the scenes weren't so hell bent on creating a slave caste that cannot move freely the research into a safer, more advanced nuclear world would be the next step in human tech.
Lithium is highly toxic, but the elites don't give a fuck, as soon as earth is too far gone they'll fuck off into space.

 

[Antenna7]

That's always been a lie. The cheap labor pill is just a cash grab. The corpos make less but in turn the country prospers.

Exactly. There's plenty of coal to go around, same with uranium. They don't do it because it solves the issue. You can't grift off near infinite energy once it's set up. That's why they want them dead.

I remember someone said they were reading articles when the Nuclear age started. And people in the field were saying in the future, electricity would become so cheap, it would merely become a subscription service.

Now does that sound like something the elites would want? No, not if you read the papers their think tanks and NGO's put out.

 

[Death of an Ego]

They don't do it because it solves the issue.

This is the root cause of so much political and social stagnation worldwide, but especially in western nations, which have become oligarchies in everything but name. It's not just about manufacturing a grift, if you actually solve problems, a whole foul load of the politiswine class will be very angry with you because you've narrowed their options to campaign on for or against, whether they are honest about it (lol) or just making noise to rile up the base. It's maddening, because we wouldn't be as polarized as a society if the first order of business as a politician wasn't to always be re-elected. That won't change until society collapses though. C'est la vie.

 

[Male Idiot]

Why use any power plant at all, when Diversity and Inclusion can warm every german with BBC anal heaters.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

White Supremacy is all I need to feel warm.

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

I hope Germany fucking freezes.

 

[WelperHelper99]

This is the root cause of so much political and social stagnation worldwide, but especially in western nations, which have become oligarchies in everything but name. It's not just about manufacturing a grift, if you actually solve problems, a whole foul load of the politiswine class will be very angry with you because you've narrowed their options to campaign on for or against, whether they are honest about it (lol) or just making noise to rile up the base. It's maddening, because we wouldn't be as polarized as a society if the first order of business as a politician wasn't to always be re-elected. That won't change until society collapses though. C'est la vie.

This is how you end up turning into Warhammer 40k, a unchanging world on the brink of collapse while the people up in the top of the hive cities dine on steaks and wine, because why solve the issue when you got your money? Why stop the gravy train? Instead they want you to suffer for the grift, and won't stop until a Emperor kicks their ass into gear