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1. Eric A. Meyer (meyerweb@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 03:07:01 JST Eric A. Meyer

   I’d been hearing about the coal-mine protests in Germany, but this photo by Sean Gallup is the first that gave me a real sense of the titanic size of the thing and what’s being protested. Just… unreal.

   • Refurio Anachro (refurioanachro@toot.cat)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 05:10:45 JST Refurio Anachro

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     • halikular
     • guenther
     • Chris Hartgerink (he/they)

     The nuclear argument is a straw man. The most significant problem ist that nuclear power is expensive, and it takes decades to build nuclear plants.

     But there are also lots of other problems: Capitalism isn't reliable enough to keep nuclear power safe (or even running, see France) in the long run. It's still fossile, and the potential amount of fuel is just as limited as oil, and extraction is even more devastating.

     They're centralized, which is why the energy mafia loves them. They aren't going to replace fossile anytime soon, so not much of a conflict of interest there.

     @halikular @guenther @schratze @chartgerink @Meyerweb

   • halikular@mastodon.social's status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 05:10:50 JST halikular

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     • guenther
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     @guenther @schratze @chartgerink @Meyerweb The data is indisputable, not saying we should only do nuclear. Nuclear + renewables is the ideal energy mix for the coming 30 years at least.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • guenther (guenther@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 05:10:54 JST guenther

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     @halikular

     tell me more about the reliable french energy system and their ethically sourced clean uranium

     @schratze @chartgerink @Meyerweb

   • halikular@mastodon.social's status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 05:10:56 JST halikular

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     • Chris Hartgerink (he/they)

     @schratze @chartgerink @Meyerweb This is what happens when you close crucial nuclear power plants then put all eggs in one basket to go all in on Russian natural gas and become dependent on it. Now that we reduce Russian gas imports, energy has to come from somewhere and we’re now back to the 1800s burning dirty brown coal.

   • schratze (schratze@todon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 05:10:57 JST schratze

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     @chartgerink @Meyerweb it's not just one town. More than 300 villages have been razed and somewhere around 100 000 people have been forcibly moved elsewhere in the name of coal mining in all of Germany.

   • Chris Hartgerink (he/they) (chartgerink@akademienl.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 05:11:02 JST Chris Hartgerink (he/they)

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     @Meyerweb they’re literally wiping a village off the map for this coalmine, because the company chose to finally use it’s decade old license 🤦♀️

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 05:13:11 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     • Refurio Anachro
     • halikular
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     @RefurioAnachro @halikular @guenther @schratze @chartgerink @Meyerweb Politicians here are quite anti-nuclear, out of tradition if nothing else... Thankfully our grid is mostly green already via hydropower!