Comment by peterfirefly
14 hours ago
Don't have Germany be so dependent on Russian gas. Don't tear down nuclear power plants, build more of them instead.
14 hours ago
Don't have Germany be so dependent on Russian gas. Don't tear down nuclear power plants, build more of them instead.
Electrifying the economy with renewables (and I’ll count nuclear as renewable) is the single most important thing countries can do right now to ensure their own military and economic security.
Distributed solar and wind are more difficult to bomb than nuclear, so they’re probably a slightly better choice (especially if they’re built to island / work off grid).
Non-nuclear renewables ("intermittables") need something else as back up. That is almost always natural gas.
That's been causing a lot of problems for Europe for years now.
There's the dependence on Russia, there's the dependence on the North Sea supply -- and the full-scale invasion started while the Danish fields were off-line -- and there's the dependency on LNG imports from actors that are either unreliable (the US) or far away (the US and Qatar) or both. LNG is also quite expensive.