Germany is burning less coal than it used to 10 years ago.
Somehow this fact is not only relatively unknown, most people seem to have been led to believe that the exact opposite is true.
Nuclear propaganda has always had a bit of a reality problem.
Somehow this fact is not only relatively unknown, most people seem to have been led to believe that the exact opposite is true.
Nuclear propaganda has always had a bit of a reality problem.
Propaganda cuts both ways. For example, you completely ignore the reality that the sun doesn't shine at night ad that the wind doesn't alway blow. So Germany shut down its nuclear plants an now is burning coal to compensate.
Someone literally advocates for rolling blackouts in a sibling thread because renewable generation is intermittent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675328
This is a good comment describing the current situation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35660884