@levelsio @levelsio 2024-08-06
Europe’s governments made energy expensive on purpose to stop you from using it!
Europe is anti-energy right now and taxes it heavily causing prices to be more than double than in the US:
- US: 0.31 per kWh (2x) - Germany: $0.44 per kWh (2.75x)
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2024-08-06
People read @levelsio tweets about AC’s comparison of Europe vs other countries and get biased that Europe doesn’t have AC due to culture, slow progress, environment, and other unrelated things.
But the reason is common people can’t pay for AC at these energy prices in the EU. x.com/IliaWhy/status…
Simon @SimonTheNoob 2024-08-06
You got things wrong.
Germany had 3 power plants on 2022, at the same time it had 3 pipelines with Russia and 4th about to be open. Those pipelines provided far more energy than nuclear power plants AND were the raw input into chemical industry.
It’s not as much about EU making
@levelsio @levelsio 2024-08-06
This is completely false Germany had LOADS of nuclear power plants Most of them were shutdown
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/qa-why-germany-phasing-out-nuclear-power-and-why-now
After years of protests against nuclear power station projects in several locations, and fuelled by the accident at Three Mile Island (U.S.) in 1979 and the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986, the anti-nuclear movement resulted in no new commercial reactors being built in Germany after 1989.
Simon @SimonTheNoob 2024-08-07
Not in 2022. Maybe 2010, when they fully expected to be using Russian gas until 2100. But in 2022 only 3 were remaining.
Maxime Thoonsen @maxthoon 2024-08-06
It was insane to close them. One of the stupidest political move. Germans are not against nuclear anymore and gov lied to justify the closing.
@quassy@mastodon.social @quassy7 2024-08-06
Nuclear being cheap is the biggest myth. It never was, it certainly isn’t with all the decommissioning cost and non-sensical ideas like SMRs (opposite of economies of scale) won’t help. It’s better than coal for resource independence and helpful to build a bomb, nothing more.
Kai Kutzki @kaikutzki 2024-08-07
No @SimonTheNoob is right! The 3 remaining NPPs were shut down last year and power became CHEAPER!
They were „blocking“ the grid from renwables.
Now prices are at 0.257€/kwh (~0.28$) compared to >0.35€in Q1/23