German Chancellor Scholz speaks out against new nuclear power, Deutschlandfunk reports
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he is against a new nuclear power debate in the country, in an interview released late on Friday with German radio station Deutschlandfunk.

Growth in german wind capacity is slowing. Soo… then the plan is to keep on with lignite and gas? Am I missing something?

Installed Wind Capacty - Germany

German Wind Capacity

  • NataliePortland@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Wow I’m surprised to see people are actually downvoting you and arguing about this. It’s common knowledge that the cost, impact, and build-time of new nuclear plants makes them a poor choice for energy. Not only is wind/ solar cheaper, it’s faster to build.

    • regul@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It’s also common knowledge that the more often you build something, the lower its price tends to go as that knowledge spreads. It’s part of the reason it’s so expensive to build trains in the US and so cheap in South Korea and Spain.

      • burningmatches@feddit.ukEnglish
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        1 year ago

        This famously isn’t true for nuclear power. It just keeps getting more expensive.

        The French nuclear case illustrates the perils of the assumption of robust learning effects resulting in lowered costs over time in the scale-up of large-scale, complex new energy supply technologies. The uncertainties in anticipated learning effects of new technologies might be much larger that often assumed, including also cases of “negative learning” in which specific costs increase rather than decrease with accumulated experience.

        https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301421510003526

        And this research was done before Fukushima, which increased costs even further.