4mo ago

Those who live outside Europe. What are things Europeans are not ready to hear.

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Well for one thing, there is that one obvious thing which Americans and everyone else are also unready to hear: You need to give up fossil fuels. No more coal, no more gas, no more petrol, no more diesel. Some parts of Europe like to think they're well on the way to that goal but even there for the most part you've barely begun and are moving too slowly or in the wrong direction (e.g. biofuels). The hard part cannot be put off for much longer.
- people being angry at nuclear and wanting to go back to coal are the worst
  I'm sad for what's happening over in Germany
  
  Almost all of the nuclear power stations were already at the end of their lifetime anyway.
  And it's much cheaper and faster to build renewable energy than nuclear, so that's what we are doing.
  If you think nuclear is so great and cheap, look at france, who had to bail out the EDF (company operating all nuclear plants) because it was bankrupt. When the rivers are empty in the summer they have to shut down the plants. And a few years ago they would have had to shut down portions of the country if they hadn't got electricity from other countries because a lot of their reactors were found to have cracks in their vessels.
  Shure, we Germans as a whole are still using too much fossil fuels. But the state I live in (Schleswig-Holstein) already produces more renewable electricity than it consumes each year and I also have a lot of solar on my roof and batteries in my basement.
  TLDR: Nuclear is a waste of money when renewables are so much cheaper.
  
  I also forgot to mention the newest nuclear reactor that was built in France.
  They needed 17 years to build it, 12 years over their initial estimate.
  And the final costs (13.2 billion) were four times as much as was initially estimated.
  Just imagine how much renewable power generation could have been built with that amount of money and time.
  
  Sounds like the Hyperloop and high speed trains in California
  
  Nuclear hater are braindead
- Why's that?
  
  Because otherwise, a horde of raiders in spiky leather armour will cross the radioactive wasteland, roll up to your place and rip your arms off.
  
  Unbelievable

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