This ends 30 years of madness that gave Moscow a giant lever of influence over the whole of Europe www.ft.com/content/e99e... - ThreadSky

mollymckew.bsky.social • 3 days ago

This ends 30 years of madness that gave Moscow a giant lever of influence over the whole of Europe

https://www.ft.com/content/e99efa2b-338a-4065-89c6-0683d5759ed7

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darkut.bsky.social•3 days ago

Pure symbolism, new plants aren't going to be in operation any time soon to have any actual impact on the next 10-15 years.
With the time it'd take to find a location to build etc more like 15+.
By then the power grid should already be mostly free of fossil fuels anyway.

darkut.bsky.social•3 days ago

If anything, this is going to keep gas relevant longer, because the hard push for renewables could die down while waiting for plants to be built.

Decision to build new power plants would have needed to be made 10 years ago for them to have any significant impact on decarbonising Germany's power.

mojumi.bsky.social•3 days ago

Do you think that Moscow has a further lever over the rest of Europe (apart from France) given our dependence on US arms? (serious question - I admire and enjoy your contribs to Politicology)

thomago.bsky.social•3 days ago

And starts another X years of madness where Moscow holds another giant lever of influence over the whole of Europe in the form of cheap uranium

cristallineclarity.bsky.social•3 days ago

Finally!

javiergarcia.bsky.social•3 days ago

Rapprochment sounds like the opposite of what it actually means... like condone.

atticus59914029.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bravo.
I’m proud of my home state of Georgia for recently bringing a new nuclear reactor online.
Nuclear has the potential to bring almost unlimited carbon free power without the environmental & aesthetic destruction caused by massive solar and wind farms.

drhex.bsky.social•3 days ago

That's good news! Thanks for sharing. Germany abandoning nuclear after Fukushima has always seemed wildly disproportionate. A dam failure in the 2011 earthquake caused more fatalities than the nuclear power plant. Should we stop making dams?

claudiaradelt.bsky.social•3 days ago

We should find more effective ways to produce wind and solar energy and develop „stuff“ that needs less energy. Still much potential to save electricity!

heikweh1.bsky.social•2 days ago

1)
Until the change of government, Germany was well on its way to a future based solely on renewable energy. That's over now. Consider this: The USA is 27 times larger than Germany. YOU may have room to store the nuclear waste. WE, our children, our grandchildren, and all who come
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heikweh1.bsky.social•2 days ago

2)
after us, will have the nuclear waste lying around here for the next 250,000 years. And no one knows what to do with it.
I just feel sorry for my descendants, and there's nothing I can do about it.

antonshadow.bsky.social•2 days ago

US Could Have Built 400 Reactors By Now, Which Could Have Left The USA With A Surplus On Clean Energy, But The GOP Insisted On Lying To The Country That Nuclear Energy Was Unsafe... Todays Reactors Are 1000 Times Safer Then Fossil Fuel Generators.

chiffonelle29.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yay!

akajuhlz.bsky.social•3 days ago

With the U.K and the European Union close to finalizing a trade agreement (and partially mitigating the drag on the U.K. because of Brexit), things are starting to shape up in that part of the world.

fritzbischoff.bsky.social•3 days ago

Good. Tough times require consequent measures. F*ck Putin.

theoutlier1.bsky.social•3 days ago

I am American, what does rapprochement mean? Lol

muddlethrough.bsky.social•3 days ago

A fancy way of saying they’re simpatico? Germany has agreed to treat nuclear power as clean energy so the EU can still meet its energy goals and be less reliant on Russia for natural gas.

ermakova.bsky.social•3 days ago

Spot on — it’s not about being best friends, it’s about energy pragmatism. France brings nuclear, Germany brings solar and wind. Together, they cut emissions and reduce gas dependence. That’s real European resilience.

theoutlier1.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah I was kidding, but good answer

muddlethrough.bsky.social•3 days ago

I have been accused of missing humor/sarcasm before… thanks for not saying so in a rude meme 😋

dorotakr.bsky.social•3 days ago

Better late than never.

sacatlady.bsky.social•3 days ago

Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima - yeah I’m so excited for another existential threat to the world. It was getting pretty boring around here.

briansniffen.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah, the nuclear problem list is short enough to remember. Coal and gas, the list is pages long.

sacatlady.bsky.social•3 days ago

I guess the fallout will be awful when Russia bombs that coal mine in Ky.
I’m just saying let’s not jump from the frying pan into the fire. We have no idea how to secure nuclear plants or the waste they produce.

claudiaradelt.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not to forget: easy targets in case of war…

antonshadow.bsky.social•2 days ago

You Have No Clue How Modern Reactors Are Made, Do You... Nuclear Reactors Are 1000 Times Safer Then Any Fossil Fuel Powered Generator.

whynotwhy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Esp as thorium salts can be used

pyak.eu•3 days ago

This does nothing to make Europe safer.

If Germany wanted nuclear weapons - that would be the only reason to have nuclear power plants.

For energy consumption they are too expensive AND - as Ukraine shows - they create safe heavens for invaders and potential for blackmail.