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The share of gas power generation has increased in recent years (except for 2022). Is that really much more environmentally friendly?
The world is more than an average and especially electricity is hard to store on a large scale. If you can produce double the demand today and only half tomorrow, then on average that is 125% of the demand. Still, the lights go out tomorrow. And the situation won’t improve if we continue to steadily increase consumption through the electrification of heat, mobility, and industry. In the last 30 years, Germany roughly had the same scale of electricity consumption. With an electrified industry, this will definitely change.

Power generation from gas is crap – I’m with you on that. That’s why renewable energies like wind, solar, and biomass (from waste products) need to be expanded.

At the same time, allowing bidirectional charging instantly provides you with a huge decentralized electricity storage system that can be used at night and charged during the day with photovoltaics.

Example: Our hybrid has a battery with 8 kWh. Here, the heating turns off at 5 p.m. in winter, and from then until 8 a.m. the next morning, we consume about 2 kWh of electricity. With bidirectional charging, I could use the already existing storage and we wouldn’t need any gas or other power at night.

As an interested Bavarian: what exactly is being banned and restricted in Berlin?

Expansion of parking space management, reduction of traffic lanes, reduction of parking spaces, conversion of streets into seating areas and pedestrian zones. And often, even though the residents and locals often do not want it. Basically, there are good approaches there, but in the wrong order. In the city center, there is a quite well-functioning public transport system, but not in the outer districts and surrounding area. If you have to go to work in the city, it’s not so nice because parking spaces are also missing on the city outskirts.

Do you remember Chernobyl and Fukushima? How many reactors had to be taken offline for safety reasons in France last summer?

What on earth does that have to do with corruption and greed?

Where do you want to store the nuclear waste? In your garden?

Please inform yourself about today's new nuclear power plants ... the technology and safety are completely different.

Hello,

Please inform us about today's new nuclear power plants ... the technology and safety are quite different.

You hear that again and again, but unfortunately it fails because of humans.
Until Fukushima, I also believed that nuclear power plants could be operated safely if you made some effort. In theory, that might really be possible, but in reality, you will always have some idiot somewhere who neglects certain checks out of greed/stupidity/ignorance, chooses the cheap solution, or botches the welds.
At Fukushima, absolutely nothing would have happened if some bright spark during the construction phase hadn’t had the idea to move the emergency generators from the originally planned location on a hill into the plant’s courtyard. Of course, that saved a lot of money and probably earned the idea provider a fat bonus... The outcome is well known.
Unfortunately, you will always have such things, and that is the real problem with nuclear power plants. Maybe the technology could still be managed, but never the people. In short, humanity is unfortunately too dumb to operate such technology safely on a permanent basis.

Best regards,

Andreas

Please inform yourself about today's new nuclear power plants ... the technology and safety are completely different.

In principle, one can agree with that. Modern reactors are much safer! However, constantly there are people arguing to just keep the old ones running because we already have them anyway. Simply put, that doesn't work because the fuel rods are now spent. New ones would have to be manufactured first. But the decisive thing is that they are neither safe by design nor by the current maintenance condition! And if you talk about new construction, inform yourself about construction times. Spoiler: 15 years are quite realistic. And the issue with nuclear waste is a real problem. Also with new ones! There are no final repositories...

Please provide information about today's new nuclear power plants

Then let's build today's new NPPs. Thanks to Flamanville 3 and Olkiluoto 3, we know how fast and cost-stable that works. With a bit of luck, we'll get them on the grid by 2040, at only 4-5 times the cost. Simply great. The train has left the station. Fortunately. Not only since the Greens have been in charge, but since the first energy consensus talks under Kohl in the mid-90s.