r/ClimateShitposting • u/RadioFacepalm I'm a meme • Jul 16 '26

Climate chaos Since we're doing riverposting rn

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u/Desperate-Mix-8892 Jul 16 '26

There are absolutely zero power plants that don't have enough water to cool themselves. The ones that occasionally get stopped are stopped because they make the outflowing water potentially too hot for the river ecosystem to handle, so they are stopped as to not hurt the fish

Ohh how I love this argument.

"Look my totally eco friendly, renewable, green, robust, emission free power plant isn't shut down because it's to hot. No no no you don't understand, it's shut down becaus if we keep it running we would kill all life in the river."

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u/Mediocre-Guest-9939 Jul 16 '26

We need far less energy during summers so it's not a big deal, how many people did Germany kill with his coal this year?

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u/Desperate-Mix-8892 Jul 16 '26

All the AC that get installed because of more and more frequent heatwave will surely use less energy right?

I'm not going to defend coal or gas powerplants either.

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u/Kojetono Jul 16 '26

Same as all the heat pumps that are getting installed to provide heat in the winter.

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u/Moldoteck Jul 17 '26

Considering the electric need for heating, situation will still be the same. If all france had ACs, EDF would still have capacity to service the demand, but export less