DarthOne
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Hours before shutting down their last nuclear plant, Germany has announced everybody's electric bill is going up 45%.
God damnit Germany…
Hours before shutting down their last nuclear plant, Germany has announced everybody's electric bill is going up 45%.
God damnit Germany…
They must have some kind of plan to keep power.God damnit Germany…
Meanwhile in Poland:
Fresh progress for Poland's Orlen Synthos SMR project : New Nuclear - World Nuclear News
Orlen Synthos Green Energy's plan for dozens of small modular reactors across Poland has received a double boost - approval from the European Commission for the joint venture's creation, and a cooperation agreement on the project with the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water...www.world-nuclear-news.org
If you don't laugh it is just sad. If you can't laugh at your own country screwing itself over maybe look at Briton? or California? they always got something funny going on. here have canada's plan for reducing the carbon.I'd be laughing my ass off if my countrymen's stupidity wasn't also dragging me down...
They would be wasting money if they did. The coal spike price is petering out. There is hardly a difference anymore between market and existing mine coal price. Reopening mines would just make the EU mad, and in a year the coal would be a problem because it would be more expensive than market price and so no one would want it and then miners would be mad again.When we restart closed coal mines,i could belive in our goverment.Till then,i think of them as useful idiots.
We need mines to be independent,not making money on it.They would be wasting money if they did. The coal spike price is petering out. There is hardly a difference anymore between market and existing mine coal price. Reopening mines would just make the EU mad, and in a year the coal would be a problem because it would be more expensive than market price and so no one would want it and then miners would be mad again.
If we make electricity out of expensive coal then we will have expensive electricity like Germany.We need mines to be independent,not making money on it.
Coal from private mines in Poland is not so expensive.If we make electricity out of expensive coal then we will have expensive electricity like Germany.
So then either you subsidize electricity (EU will be mad) or have businesses run away because of expensive electricity.
Energy independence sounds nice, but who's going to volunteer to pay premium for it? It has to be done through investment into something that will make cheap, or at least competitively priced electricity.
The most expensive mines were of course those that were closed.Coal from private mines in Poland is not so expensive.
Part of them,maybe.The most expensive mines were of course those that were closed.
pretty sure coal is the cheapest.If we make electricity out of expensive coal
Coal is not made equal, just like oil. There are different grades, different mines, different extraction methods. Some are much cheaper than others.pretty sure coal is the cheapest.
it has actual real pollution issues (unlike most other fossil fuels). but I don't get where you are getting this expensive thing.
Sure.Coal is not made equal, just like oil. There are different grades, different mines, different extraction methods. Some are much cheaper than others.
Back a couple decades ago Poland had massive issues with financial sustainability of coal mines, and that was before green crazy got big in the EU. Of course they weren't closing the best functioning mines with best geological conditions.Sure.
That doesn't mean the closed mines are the expensive type.
Becouse goverments political friends were stealing from themBack a couple decades ago Poland had massive issues with financial sustainability of coal mines, and that was before green crazy got big in the EU. Of course they weren't closing the best functioning mines with best geological conditions.
Wait, they are drilling in the Okavango...god help them, that alone (with Africa country-tier infrastructure) is likely to destroy the wetlands the first time they have any sort of major accident, never mind the drought.Not sure it belongs in this thread, so the mods are free to tell me or move it elsewhere:
In Africa's Okavango, oil drilling disrupts locals, nature
In Africa's Okavango delta, drilling for oil exploration, as well as human-caused climate change leading to more erratic rainfall patterns and water abstraction and diversion for development and commercial agriculture, has altered the landscape that so...abcnews.go.com
(Archived version here, for long-term preservation purposes.)
More specifically, they try to tie in man-made climate change with the more erratic rainfall patterns in the Okavango Delta, which is already undergoing oil drilling and exploration, as is. Definitely no climatologist, but I encourage anyone here with science credentials (e.g., @Bacle or @Bear Ribs) to comment, if so inclined.