Germany is bringing back some of its coal power plants online ahead of the winter season amid concerns about a potential shortage of natural gas supplies. Germany has cracked down on its coal power plants as part of transitioning out from fossil fuel energy. However, as the Russia-Ukraine war dented gas supplies from Moscow and […]
Any level of coal use at this point should be criticized. Many other grids have found ways to eliminate. We can argue about whether or not it was caused by nuclear policy but those are the facts and I will continue to do so until they start taking this seriously.
No, not "until" they take this seriously. There was a new government taking office in 2021 and it happened two years ago.
And guess what also happened exactly two years ago with a government not delaying and sabotaging the energy transition anymore… Yeah, the narratives started of how Germany is complete failing and actually increasing coal use (although numbers show the opposite) because that insane new government is trying a green transition that will never work. And how renewables are actually increasing energy prizes because they got rid of cheap coal and nuclear… the latter out out their insane ideology and totally not because it was planned for a decade and was a done deal when they came into office… yadda, yadda…
And now take a step back and look at what narratives are actually pushed constantly… and you might understand what is happening and why it's rediculous. People who claim to want green energy are in reality used to parrot the proven lies spread by coal lobbyists that only want people to give up on changes and nuclear lobbyists that will never actually have a part in decarbonisation in the next decade unless a country started building nuclear decades ago.
I assume you are okay with me making a note on congratulating you personally in about 2 more years for being part of a 4 year propaganda campaign that brought the retarded morons back into office to stop that failing energy transtion project and stay with coal for another 20 years at least. Yes, the exact same guys who actually spend the last decades shutting down nuclear, while -also purely accidently of course- this gets blamed on a daily basis on brain-damaged green ideology by people who actually came into office less than 2 weeks before the final shutdown started. The same guys that spread the fairy tales about Germany increasing coal mining when those mining projects were also contracted more than 10 years ago and the new government actually renegotiated the whole deal to stop now and not demolish another dozen villages in the next decade… I wonder why again this wasn't the actual news earlier this year and everyone worked so hard here to parrot the tale of how Germany demolished the village of Lützerath to increase their coal use. Just like I wonder if anyone of those people can name the villages before or all the ones not destroyed now. Isn't propaganda impressive…
I have personally been saying exactly this for many years ago so it’s not something that magically appeared two years ago. If the new government was really serious about changing course they could have stopped the most recent shutdowns earlier this year. But like every other ruling party in Germany (and to be fair, in the rest of the world too), they are not taking the climate emergency as seriously as is needed.
None of this should be taken as excusing or supporting the far more dangerous policies of the conservative parties. But their existence does not make anyone immune to criticism.