[hef19898]

The decision to shut the down was met years before said crisis. Run times were extended as much as possible (safety, maintennace, fuel). Edit: I didn't know that we have reliable information geo politics dating back to almost 3000 BC. Regardless, the last decade has plenty examples of worse decisions than Germany buying gas from Russia.

[jansan]

No, it was done for ideological reasons. And it was stupid as hell.

[anonyfox]

agree on the stupid decision. but more important: the way forward.

- building up new nuclear reactors takes _many_ years and is still quite expensive, so its not a short-term solution. long term due to climate change the cooling might be a problem (like france already has issues in the summer when rivers run dry and they had to throttle nuclear reactors) - fossils must be phased out, not an option - hydrogen is at best a storage option for surplus energy (like solar), but highly inefficient to begin with - renewables are already cheaper than everything else and prices are dropping still [1]

so either people want to believe climate crisis doesn't exist and want to double down on fossils, or believe nuclear will solve it but it can't right now, or hope that some miracle happens somehow and energy/climate will be a solved problem somehow.

I'd prefer to focus on the here and now, which means renewables, plus some storage in any form, instead of beating dead horses over and over again.

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[1] https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/10/11/radical-energy...