Pumped-storage hydroelectricity works indeed as a storage for energy, but instead of diesel generators (CO2 emmissions) the use combined reversible turbine/generators. As far as I know they can be used all year round and are an ideal combination with Solar and wind energy because they can act as a buffer between changing demand e.g. day/night and varying output of Solar and Wind Energy.
Yes, redundancy is important. But as I just recently got to know, we export 25% of the energy we produce. On top of the redundancy.
Even members of the conservatives want to shut down at least three of the seven plants permanently, so it seems pretty sure they will NOT come back online.
Concerning the bloody gas, we import the majority from the Netherlands and Norway and while I wouldn't call Russia a perfect democracy it isn't the arch enemy it has been.
I agree with you, it is stupid to store the waste and it is even more stupid to produce it in the first place.
Due to political pressure seven of the seventeen german nuclear plants are shut down. Within days! So there was no actual need for them. The percentage of use renewable energy has risen from 3,4 % in 1990 to 16,5 % in 2010, so I would not say that coal is our only option.
with half-lives of decades to centuries. For the projections for Yucca Mountain, they expected containment for ten thousand years to be adequate to get rid of most radioactivity from nuclear rods.
Oh only centuries! And you dare to call the parent ignorant. Even if the containment as such is safe for millenia, and thats a big if, there is still no guarantee that the political situation around that site stays stable, people still even know what is hidden in the deep.
As one of these crazy stupid Germans I've got two words for you: atomic waste!
Worldwide theres NO waste disposal site which can be guaranteed to be safe for next millenia.
He can't do anything against the servers, because they are not situated in Germany, his only option is forbidding the forwarding. That he does. Nevertheless the page displayed says implicit; to visit the german wikipedia use http://de.wikipedia.org/
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Pumped-storage hydroelectricity works indeed as a storage for energy, but instead of diesel generators (CO2 emmissions) the use combined reversible turbine/generators. As far as I know they can be used all year round and are an ideal combination with Solar and wind energy because they can act as a buffer between changing demand e.g. day/night and varying output of Solar and Wind Energy.
Yes, redundancy is important. But as I just recently got to know, we export 25% of the energy we produce. On top of the redundancy. Even members of the conservatives want to shut down at least three of the seven plants permanently, so it seems pretty sure they will NOT come back online. Concerning the bloody gas, we import the majority from the Netherlands and Norway and while I wouldn't call Russia a perfect democracy it isn't the arch enemy it has been.
I agree with you, it is stupid to store the waste and it is even more stupid to produce it in the first place. Due to political pressure seven of the seventeen german nuclear plants are shut down. Within days! So there was no actual need for them. The percentage of use renewable energy has risen from 3,4 % in 1990 to 16,5 % in 2010, so I would not say that coal is our only option.
with half-lives of decades to centuries. For the projections for Yucca Mountain, they expected containment for ten thousand years to be adequate to get rid of most radioactivity from nuclear rods.
Oh only centuries! And you dare to call the parent ignorant. Even if the containment as such is safe for millenia, and thats a big if, there is still no guarantee that the political situation around that site stays stable, people still even know what is hidden in the deep.
As far as I know the several explosions were not part of the natural disaster but of the already failling reactors!
Does your statistic include the risks of atomic waste? Which will be with us for a LONG LONG time.
As one of these crazy stupid Germans I've got two words for you: atomic waste! Worldwide theres NO waste disposal site which can be guaranteed to be safe for next millenia.
He can't do anything against the servers, because they are not situated in Germany, his only option is forbidding the forwarding. That he does. Nevertheless the page displayed says implicit; to visit the german wikipedia use http://de.wikipedia.org/