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Germany's Renewable Plan Faces Popular Resistance

Posted by timothy on from the maybe-they-should-try-low-resistance-wire dept.

diegocg writes "Germany has outlined the details of the new 800km (497mi) high voltage power link that will transport renewable power from the north to the industrial south. It is part of the Energiewende plan to replace nuclear power and most other non-renewable energy sources with renewable sources in the next decades. However, the power link is facing a problem: popular resistance from affected neighborhoods."

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  1. Ah the Germans, they're really bad at this! by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 0, Troll

    It appears that no source of power is clean enough for the Germans, except brown coal (the shittiest, dirtiest, world-destroying-est source of electricity of all time). In order to make up for the closure of non-polluting nuclear powerplants, they built brown coal burning plants, and yet they still felt all smug about it - as their carbon footprint went from bad to terrible. And now this. Germans!!!! (fist shaking)

    You already have the most expensive electricity in Europe, and since your Atomaussteig, you also have some of the dirtiest electricity in (Western) Europe (in emissions per MW). You're not good at this game!