Or… OR, we invest those running costs in the infrastructure (storage and lines) to harvest unbound energy via photovoltaic solar arrays, tide power and wind farms.
@DmMacniel@SaveTheTuaHawk
Sure. But that is deflecting the argument. Purchase of Uranium is no more expensive for Germany than it is for France.
By decommissioning nuclear, Germany LOST the investment it had already made & then had to invest AGAIN to build alternatives (+to fossil fuel, its immediate fall-back), after public panic over “Fukushima”. (1 death directly attributed to date – Most people still don’t know the name of the thing that actually killed 20k people.)
Yes, 👍 Renewables!
@DmMacniel@SaveTheTuaHawk
France did not panic (they were 71% nuclear-powered already so immediate decommissioning would have been virtually impossible), but they are managing a transition to renewables anyway as nuclear is gradually phased out.
Germany can buy uranium like every other country. France is all nuclear, without any uranium mined in France. Germany also has no gas or oil .
Or… OR, we invest those running costs in the infrastructure (storage and lines) to harvest unbound energy via photovoltaic solar arrays, tide power and wind farms.
@DmMacniel @SaveTheTuaHawk
Sure. But that is deflecting the argument. Purchase of Uranium is no more expensive for Germany than it is for France.
By decommissioning nuclear, Germany LOST the investment it had already made & then had to invest AGAIN to build alternatives (+to fossil fuel, its immediate fall-back), after public panic over “Fukushima”. (1 death directly attributed to date – Most people still don’t know the name of the thing that actually killed 20k people.)
Yes, 👍 Renewables!
@DmMacniel @SaveTheTuaHawk
France did not panic (they were 71% nuclear-powered already so immediate decommissioning would have been virtually impossible), but they are managing a transition to renewables anyway as nuclear is gradually phased out.