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[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Russia is doing it and their electricity costs are cheapest on the planet

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Yep, France has cheaper energy than Germany. France went nuclear, Germany went solar/wind (and even had to re-online some coal plants due to shortages).

The pushback on nuclear from anti-fossil advocates never ceases to amaze me.

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Isnt Germany's costs are absolutely outrageous? Like the most expensive in Europe

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah. A series of fucktarted decisions caused Germany to fuck themselves:

Germany turned off all their nuclear plants (why?!)
Germany turned off all their coal plants (good)
Germany vastly increased natural gas imports and tied themselves at the hip to Russia (they were publicly told this was a bad idea. Germany laughed it off)
Germany ramped up solar/wind production (good)
Germany did not invest in grid-scale storage to go with that solar/wind (Just going whole-hog on trusting Russia)
Russia invaded Ukraine and held natural gas exports to Germany's throat (boy, who would have guessed Russia would fuck over Germany?!)
Germany had to emergency expand their LNG imports amid record-high prices and with hastily-built LNG terminals (LNG is also the most expensive way to import natural gas)
Germany had to online coal plants due to shortages (boy, those nuclear plants would have been damn helpful!)
Germany now has some of the highest priced electricity anywhere

They really, really, really should have kept those nuclear plants like France...

[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

Every German energy problem is entirely down to political self owns