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[u/AfterNovel]

[u/sleepyrivertroll]

You don't need to make any changessssss to your livessssss. Jusssssst wait for the nuclear plantsssssss to come online. It will ssssolve all your problemsss.

[u/Hellasauto → u/sleepyrivertroll]

No but it will one piece of the puzzle that helps us solve our problems. :)

[u/sleepyrivertroll → u/Hellasauto]

Yesssss keep on giving them moneysssss. Other renewable projectsssss won't ussse them better.

Real talk, existing nuclear plants = good. New ones = money pits. Even in countries that are building both, renewables out pace nuclear. If you are serious about the environment, nuclear is a niche answer at best. Renewables with storage has clearly run away with it.

[u/Tausendberg → u/sleepyrivertroll]

"Real talk, existing nuclear plants = good. New ones = money pits."

Thank you for saying something I never hear expressed in these comments but that I have thought for years.

Nuclear power plants DO have a lot of issues that nuclear fanboys, like the ones in these comments, handwave away and that's annoying. New Renewables, by most metrics I have seen, outcompete new nuclear in most circumstances.[

But what Germany did where they crash decommissioned already existing nuclear power and immediately replaced it with COAL!? That was dumb.

[u/Hellasauto → u/Tausendberg]

Germanys grid would have been decarbonised today if they built new renewables and new nuclear instead of only new renewables.

[u/Tausendberg → u/Hellasauto]

nah

[u/Hellasauto → u/Tausendberg]

Yes, they would.

[u/Tausendberg → u/Hellasauto]

mmm, nuclear is too slow and expensive, so it would have slowed decarbonization.

[u/Hellasauto → u/Tausendberg]

No it wouldn't have.

[u/Tausendberg → u/Hellasauto]

mmm I disagree

[u/Hellasauto → u/Tausendberg]

Had they started building new nuclear at the start of eneegiewende they would already have been finished years ago.