With climate change looming, it seems so completely backwards to go back to using it again.

Is it coal miners pushing to keep their jobs? Fear of nuclear power? Is purely politically motivated, or are there genuinely people who believe coal is clean?

Edit, I will admit I was ignorant to the usage of coal nowadays.

Now I’m more depressed than when I posted this

  • nicktron
    -7•2 years ago

    Germany had plenty of nuclear energy but decided they wanted to shut them all down. Now they have to use coal and LNG.

    • Ertebolle
      -5•2 years ago

      Yes. And even before the Russia mess they were going to replace nuclear with LNG, which is still pretty bad.

      • @luk3th3dud3@feddit.de
        10•2 years ago

        While in hindsight not all the decisions of the German energy policies seem right and it would have been better to keep the nuclear power plants operating for a few years, there was never the plan to replace nuclear with coal. All of the nuclear power generation has been replaced by wind and solar power generation. In fact, the plan was to phase out nuclear and replace the remaining coal generation with natural gas power plants. This definitely got more difficult in the time of LNG. The plan in any case is to phase out coal as well and with 56% renewable generation in 2023 Germany is on track to do so.