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Uh... on a scale from 0 to relying on a steady flow of fuel from Russia, how serious is the risk?
Germany had a thriving solar industry in the 2010s. Then our government killed it because people were adding renewables "too fast".
The CDU is incompetent. Solar power, Deutsche Bahn, Nuclear exit without a strategy, all victims of the same perpetrator.
they bought into the anti-nuclear propaganda from russia and abaonded thier other energy resources.
Oh, please. Don't start with this nuclear bullshit again.
Firstly why would Russia, a state with an almost monopoly on the building of nuclear fuel rods try to stir European nations away from nuclear energy? Even now France wants to extends its ties with Russia in regard to nuclear fuel production.
We wouldn't have needed nuclear power plants then if we simply continued building renewables and we certainly don't need them now that we are finally adding renewables in large quantities.
This has absolutely nothing to do with that. What an uneducated comment, holy shit.
It is, but so is reliance on American LNG and oil from the gulf, not to mention all the US software that is embedded in our most sensitive systems.
Yes lets keep depending on fossil fuel imports instead! You know, the stuff we keep burning and rebuying. The stuff we cannot create. That we have to keep buying and burning forever or more likely until climate change has dissolved our civilization. That‘s much more preferable than importing tech right now that we can maintain, fix and perhaps even build ourselves soon. Makes sense. /s
I know the reliance on China is a slippery slope at best and we really have to learn how to stand on our own legs but the beauty of renewables is that we can absolutely do that within a few years. This is an improvement from completely reliance on fossil fuels.
The main reason things are still running as they are during this crisis is because of renewables. Things won‘t improve very soon but they could be so much worse without renewables.
We are already rely on China to make every bit of plastic junk that’s in your apartment anyway what’s the difference between them making all the fucking solar panels?
The West sold its corporate soul to China for three decades of cheap knickknacks and now they’re complaining that the bill is getting higher.