...kills people. Germany is burning a fuel that kills people, millions upon millions, because they have announced that nuclear energy, which has a spectacular record of killing very few people over more than half a century, is in their mind "too dangerous."
Really? This kind of antisense is of the sort that could drivel out the mouth of a Republican. It's as stupid as anything Trump has said, and Trump is famously stupid.
The problem with so called "renewable energy" is that it's random.
If has to be proud of 233 g CO2/kwh (as of this writing , 6:06 PM EST US, Germany is now at 255 g CO2/kwh), one is clueless. Climate change is real. Germany has been on this path of ignorance celebration for 20 years.
The Germans have not once, yet, in any time I've checked, not been less than 200%, in the "percent talk" apologists for this disaster so love to use, worse than France. Right now, in percent talk, the German contempt for future generations and for climate change is 263% higher than that of France, where the carbon intensity is 97 g CO2/kwh.
I note that France is not doing as well as it would have been doing if, instead of building wind turbines that will be landfill in less than 25 years, they had used the money to build a nuclear plant. As a result of building wind crap, the French now have to burn dangerous natural gas. As of this writing, 11.26% of French generated electricity - some of which they are exporting to that coal burning hellhole Germany (524 MW) to lower the abysmal German climate performance - is generated by burning dangerous natural gas and dumping the waste directly into the planetary atmosphere. Although it is responsible for a small fraction of French electricity, it accounts for 56.94% of the dangerous fossil fuel waste France is dumping because they didn't build a nuclear plant instead of wind junk. That is the environmental cost of "investing" in wind.
Replace the 8.08 GW of dangerous natural gas now being burned in France, and it's carbon intensity falls. 0.1126 * (490 - 12) g CO2/kwh represents 53 g CO2 being added to France's tally because they drank the wind energy Kool-Aid and thus have to burn gas.
If I am indeed being asked to cheer for this tragedy, it is immediately clear to me that people suggesting I do think I'm some kind of idiot. I note that anti-nukes, including the most egregious members of that class, the "I'm not an anti-nuke" anti-nukes generally assume I'm an idiot by offering up such nonsense and expecting it to be taken seriously.
I don't think cheering is appropriate. I think all it calls from me is contempt.
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