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[–] jagermo@feddit.org 43 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

You know what would actually help more than these straw arguments? Upgrading the fucking grid.

Bavaria alone was unable to distribute 1 Twh of solar energy in 2024, because the grid is still neither flexible nor strong enough.

Source: SZ (paywall), Bundesnetzagentur Smard

And that is even without the energy produced from the wind farms.

Before we drop Millions (let's be realistic, Billions) into a technology that will be ready in 10+ years and bind us to a supplier from a country probably ending with *stan (supply chain risk, anyone?) and ignore the unsolved trash issue, maybe take the money to upgrade the existing grid and move to a decentralized, locally produced energy system that can't be taken out with a 5k drone...

[–] oneser@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

"But, but my beautiful lobbyists told me put my hand up and ruin my country!"

[–] Gieselbrecht@feddit.org 45 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

That's the opposite from what he said 14 months ago before the election.

BREAKING

Politician lies!

More incredible revelations in the 5 o' clock news.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Maybe he didn't know the reasons why Merkel had shut them down because they come from secret arrangements which he only knows now? It already didn't make sense to shut them down then.

Cut him some slack - He is very busy curbstomping poor and soon to be poor people! He just doesn't have the time to care about his pre election promises..

[–] GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip 8 points 8 hours ago

Reality hits hard sometimes. He als said a lot more thinks he can't deliver like save the economy but all he does is hate on poor people.

[–] tamlyn@lemmy.zip 18 points 10 hours ago

Wouldn't be the only thing.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 7 points 9 hours ago

Don’t you know: He is not related to the guy who ran for chancellor under his name.

[–] ConstructiveVandalism@piefed.zip 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Even a damaged clock shows the right time twice a day… unfortunately I can’t believe he keeps this opinion.Β 

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 9 points 10 hours ago

He used to be massively pro-nuclear so it seems he has changed his opinion once already.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

Why does what he says according to the article seem to contradict what Katherina Reiche (Minister for economy and energy) says so much?

I mean, I am not really sad about it, but still. How stable and reliable is the current German government?

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 18 points 10 hours ago

Because Reiche wants to kill the renewable sector. Probably has nothing to do with her close ties to energy companies like EON where she was on the board of one of its daughter companies.

[–] SapphireSphinx@feddit.org 16 points 11 hours ago

How stable and reliable is the current German government?

Stable? I don’t know. Reliable? If you’re talking about reliably lying, you’re onto something.

[–] BigShammy80@feddit.org 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Our goverment is only good in filling their own pockets with money...

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

They're filling the pockets of the oligarch class, which is much more worrying.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

A bit of perspective that more mainstream people may not be remembering:

you remember when Russia was artillery-shelling Ukrainian nuclear-plants?

You remember when Germany told Russia that spraying nuclear-waste all over Europe would be considered an Act of War?

This is the year in-which regional-consolidation begins ( wait & see: it'll happen ), & having easily-destroyable data-centers GIVES the enemy high-value-targets, that is true,

but having easily broken-open nuclear-plants, which can poison an entire region of one's country..

in wartime, that isn't necessarily the brightest "strategy".

It depends on how psychopathic/nihilistic one's enemy is, obviously, but Putin?

don't bet on his consideration for one.

& once Trump crosses his tippingpoint, & ditches the Middle East, to concentrate on annexing Canada ( enforcing that with Greenland severing our EU-lifeline ), & warring on ALL of the rest of the Americas & the Caribbean, for all-Americas "kingdom", his personal "manifest destiny"..

then the EU's going to be unbacked, against Putin.

& China's going to say to Putin: "you let us supplant gov't in Russia, & we'll let you rampage on Europe all you want, with all the military-hardware China-Russia can provide you with, & with all the lives who aren't Chinese that you can scrounge"

& Putin'll agree.

Which means that Europe's going to be as Ukraine is, right now, once Trump severs Americas-Europe relations.

It's in THAT context that datacenters & nuclear powerplants are going to be targets of Putin.

"never hand your enemy weapons" is a good rule.

I've NO IDEA what motivates Merz's statement.

But I REMEMBER Russia artillery-shelling Ukraine's nuclear-power-plant being reported in the news.

Europe doesn't need another "Chyernobl".

Never provide the enemy with targets which MULTIPLY their strikes on us.

Never.

_ /\ _

PS: small, modular, nuclear reactors, thorium, IF they were sunk deep in the bedrock, in shafts, making it impossible for any "bunker buster" to reach them, I've no problem with.

It's the availability-of-nuclear-target that I oppose, not nuclear-the-whole-category.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Only Brazil, Nicaragua and Cuba are not aligned with America. They are no match, there won't be warring. Canada could become an issue but that would be the only war.

The US will fight other wars.

Merkel shut down nuclear in 2011 and must have known about the risk earlier.

Why prepare for Putin then?

Somebody else has a need for a showdown.

[–] Melchior@feddit.org 14 points 10 hours ago

You forgot that Russia is the bigges enricher of urnanium in the world and the EU so far has not managed to get rid of that dependence. Obviously it is possible, but hardly cheap. That is a huge reason why Russian bots love nuclear so much.

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

The only irreversible things are his lies

[–] troed@fedia.io -3 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, and we'll never forgive you.

/south Sweden