German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the Western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the Western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

      • @Jacobp100@lemmy.ml
        0•10 months ago

        Not really. 1/3 of your electricity production today is coal, while your nuclear dropped from 25% in the 90s to zero today. If you kept your nuclear - rather than shutting down your reactors well before the end of their life - you would be burning far less coal

        • DerGottesknecht
          1•10 months ago

          you would be burning far less coal

          we might be burning less coal, but how much less in percent? please qualify your statements with sources.
          Also the amount of generated power is different in 1990 to today, so the percentage of nuclear would have dropped anyway.

    • @Vegoon@feddit.de
      2•10 months ago

      According to German newspapers the dismantling is to get more overburden to fill up other parts of the pit, 400 meter deep holes to generate a lake area.