It really is excellent news. .
It's too expensive.The immediate future is nuclear - there's no doubt about it
It's too expensive.
It is the most expensive form.No it's not, it is the cheapest form of energy production. If it was economically more expensive then energy companies in Germany would not have been battling to retain their function.
It is the most expensive form.
Here's why:
- Nuclear power plants have to be insured by the state. It's uninsurable any other way. When major problems happen, the costs run into hundreds of billions.
- Waste disposal costs. High level radioactive waste will have to be 'baby sat' for thousands of years. Who's going to pay for that?
- Decommissioning costs. These too are astronomical.
German energy companies are not paying for these costs.
When the pro-nuclear people are adding up how much nuclear energy production costs, they generally omit these factors.
Dumbest decision since invading Poland. Political rather than logical.I think it is one of the dumbest decisions made by the German government.
Keep in mind that "green energy" is extremely subsidised, which reduces the amnount charged by producers, but doesn't reduce the total cost of production.What surprised me was that some of the renewable sources were cheaper, including on-shore wind and geothermal.
Call me cynical, but surely this is just a political ruse to get reelected etc. They are not shuting them down until 2022, so the incumbants will get a couple of election campaigns out of it. And those individuals making the decisions today will probably be retired by 2022. Something tells me that come 2022, most of these power stations will still be operational.
Call me cynical, but surely this is just a political ruse to get reelected etc. They are not shuting them down until 2022, so the incumbants will get a couple of election campaigns out of it. And those individuals making the decisions today will probably be retired by 2022. Something tells me that come 2022, most of these power stations will still be operational.
Keep in mind that "green energy" is extremely subsidised, which reduces the amnount charged by producers, but doesn't reduce the total cost of production.
As stated, those costs are generation costs, including all plant construction and maintenance costs, and do not take incentives into account.
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