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2342 (OP) User ID: 1649286 United States 06/21/2012 01:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? But for about 12 hours a day those PV's produce about 0% of the countries electrical needs while nuclear was still 24/7. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1343301 That is why excess energy is stored. See the Nuclear industry wants people to believe it is cheap, effective and safe. However if you look at the track record of Nuclear Facilities, the leaks, shut downs, shelf life, half life, etc... is it really safe, effective and cheap? List of some known nuclear mistakes. [link to www.nuclearpowerdanger.com] Gnarly plume maps [link to www.nuclearpowerdanger.com] www.youtube.com/clandestinetimelord |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 3419021 Germany 06/21/2012 01:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? ^^^^^ [link to de.wikipedia.org] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 5758456 United States 06/21/2012 01:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? Think someone is telling a fairy story or half truths, eithe the OP or the source - which what btw? There's no way they could have brought online to power half Germany, with the industry it has. Last I read there was frantic questions about how they would cover the short full of nuclear, now theykve resolved and built in a couple months??? And where they suddenly find tech to store it for overnight use? |
SEM User ID: 9026665 United States 06/21/2012 01:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? i give Germany serious props for their movement of running a country of renewable energy and not Nuclear. Quoting: 2342 With the sun beaming overhead and the nation hard at work, Germany turned to solar like never before last Friday and Saturday as the nation's PV installations fed 22 gigawatts of electricity into the grid at one point, providing nearly half of the country's energy needs. During one 24-hour period, Germany’s PV accounted for nearly a third of the nation’s energy needs on midday Friday when the nation’s factories and offices were humming along, and then it approached 50 percent midday Saturday as residents enjoyed a sun-filled weekend. If the Unites States did the same thing, it would bring a plethora of new Jobs to the Market. Good jobs that didn't destroy the planet and its inhabitants, but worked with the Earth and those that share this space. How about retrofitting old homes, factories and energy grids with more efficient systems? Wouldn't that create new jobs and take away our reliance of supposed fossil fuels? How fantastic would it be if you were in a City like New York or Los Angeles and you breathed in fresh air instead of pollution? Do you think people would be healthier and live a better quality life? Wouldn't this be good for the economy, bringing in new Jobs and infrastructure that fits in the 21st century? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize a few changes within the Energy Sector could and will change the World and make it a better place. "Cheese" ? Do you have a family? Do you want your kids to grow up in a world with leaking nuclear reactors, mercury laced food, toxins in most of the water? How about air filled with nasty pollutants, hot particles, aluminum and barium salts? Mahatma Gandhi "Be the change you want to see in the world." LMAO...NOT going to work hahahaha. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 14103869 Canada 06/21/2012 02:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? i give Germany serious props for their movement of running a country of renewable energy and not Nuclear. Quoting: 2342 With the sun beaming overhead and the nation hard at work, Germany turned to solar like never before last Friday and Saturday as the nation's PV installations fed 22 gigawatts of electricity into the grid at one point, providing nearly half of the country's energy needs. During one 24-hour period, Germany’s PV accounted for nearly a third of the nation’s energy needs on midday Friday when the nation’s factories and offices were humming along, and then it approached 50 percent midday Saturday as residents enjoyed a sun-filled weekend. If the Unites States did the same thing, it would bring a plethora of new Jobs to the Market. Good jobs that didn't destroy the planet and its inhabitants, but worked with the Earth and those that share this space. How about retrofitting old homes, factories and energy grids with more efficient systems? Wouldn't that create new jobs and take away our reliance of supposed fossil fuels? How fantastic would it be if you were in a City like New York or Los Angeles and you breathed in fresh air instead of pollution? Do you think people would be healthier and live a better quality life? Wouldn't this be good for the economy, bringing in new Jobs and infrastructure that fits in the 21st century? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize a few changes within the Energy Sector could and will change the World and make it a better place. "Cheese" ? Do you have a family? Do you want your kids to grow up in a world with leaking nuclear reactors, mercury laced food, toxins in most of the water? How about air filled with nasty pollutants, hot particles, aluminum and barium salts? Mahatma Gandhi "Be the change you want to see in the world." Yes it would create many jobs but also end many others that have been around for a very long time. I think that is one thing people have been over looking if you replace something all infrastructure to the old system becomes less valuable and we all know the oil field douse not want to loos out on all that fat cash. Good for Germany way to be a forerunner in clean energy. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 6283302 United Kingdom 06/21/2012 02:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? i give Germany serious props for their movement of running a country of renewable energy and not Nuclear. Quoting: 2342 With the sun beaming overhead and the nation hard at work, Germany turned to solar like never before last Friday and Saturday as the nation's PV installations fed 22 gigawatts of electricity into the grid at one point, providing nearly half of the country's energy needs. During one 24-hour period, Germany’s PV accounted for nearly a third of the nation’s energy needs on midday Friday when the nation’s factories and offices were humming along, and then it approached 50 percent midday Saturday as residents enjoyed a sun-filled weekend. If the Unites States did the same thing, it would bring a plethora of new Jobs to the Market. Good jobs that didn't destroy the planet and its inhabitants, but worked with the Earth and those that share this space. How about retrofitting old homes, factories and energy grids with more efficient systems? Wouldn't that create new jobs and take away our reliance of supposed fossil fuels? How fantastic would it be if you were in a City like New York or Los Angeles and you breathed in fresh air instead of pollution? Do you think people would be healthier and live a better quality life? Wouldn't this be good for the economy, bringing in new Jobs and infrastructure that fits in the 21st century? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize a few changes within the Energy Sector could and will change the World and make it a better place. "Cheese" ? Do you have a family? Do you want your kids to grow up in a world with leaking nuclear reactors, mercury laced food, toxins in most of the water? How about air filled with nasty pollutants, hot particles, aluminum and barium salts? Mahatma Gandhi "Be the change you want to see in the world." Idiotic statements like this annoy me. To compare any renewable energy source you always have to compare and relate the SqMtr or Sq/Mile land mass per person who lives there. IE the more space per person the more renewable energy is accepted and readily available to be utilised. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 14103869 Canada 06/21/2012 02:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? its true! I would be so proud of my country if it got off its nuclear addiction. Stop putting millions of innocent lives at risk just to keep using this outdated, unstable, expensive, uninsured, poor excuse for a way to boil water! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18350936 yeah got to love that hey Nuclear power to boil water. steam power is so 1800s |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 18316293 Germany 06/21/2012 02:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? Think someone is telling a fairy story or half truths, eithe the OP or the source - which what btw? There's no way they could have brought online to power half Germany, with the industry it has. Last I read there was frantic questions about how they would cover the short full of nuclear, now theykve resolved and built in a couple months??? And where they suddenly find tech to store it for overnight use? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5758456 storage problem not solved yet, work in progress - DC to H2 and pump storage hydro power stations [link to www.solarserver.de] unlike as in the US it's geographically impossible to fill demand with solar power over here. therefore wind parks and especially off shore wind parks plus HV power-lines being build. as well as additional natural gas and coal back up power plants. longterm goal - HV/DC power-lines to solar power plants in the very south of Europe. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 18349430 United States 06/21/2012 02:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? America was built on hydro power. It's cheap and easy to harvest especially with new technology like mini hydro generators. This does not make the cartels that own the earth happy. When sheeple throw off their brain programing... well that will happen when pigs fly so no use thinking about a better future. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 18336117 United States 06/21/2012 03:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? not renewable energy. that's not good enough. free energy. i want a car that doesn't need gas, or better yet one that flies. unlimited energy to the home, no more electric bills or anything. this is our future! we must demand free energy! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 11026575 United States 06/21/2012 03:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? Wind and solar are very expensive energy. Because they are unreliable, an equal amount of nuclear or fossil fuel plants are necessary anyway. Countries like Spain and Portugal that went for Solar and wind are going bankrupt over the cost. As far as jobs, less employees are needed for renewable energy, so unemployment goes up. These are just the facts, and the cost of electricity in Germany is so high that many Germans have quit electric service, and using kerosene lamps |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 18353674 United Kingdom 06/21/2012 03:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? Are you kidding me............... Germany is one of France's biggest customers for electricity. Mostly nuclear generated..... IDIOT. [link to www.nature.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 8443185 United States 06/21/2012 03:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? Quoting: 2342 for something to blow up here first. even then we won't stop we'll just deny it's severity. Ain't greed such a wonderful thing? We could go safely with thorium but it's to cheap and easy so fuck it who wants that anyways? Just like we can have extremely fuel efficient cars... which we pretend like is some huge solution that companies are hard at work on! ROFL while cars with high efficiency that aren't crap electric are actually illegal. They don't really want any solutions to any problems only thing they care about is never ending appearance that they are working on it. It's good money and good PR. Then someday we will all be dead... and seeing as we ARE their problem that will be the solution while they all hide underground. |
2342 (OP) User ID: 1649286 United States 06/21/2012 03:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? Think someone is telling a fairy story or half truths, eithe the OP or the source - which what btw? There's no way they could have brought online to power half Germany, with the industry it has. Last I read there was frantic questions about how they would cover the short full of nuclear, now theykve resolved and built in a couple months??? And where they suddenly find tech to store it for overnight use? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5758456 Hey muttonhead, 22 gigawatts of power, kapeesh! German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity – equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity – through the midday hours of Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank has said. [link to realityviews.blogspot.com] www.youtube.com/clandestinetimelord |
2342 (OP) User ID: 1649286 United States 06/21/2012 03:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? Are you kidding me............... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18353674 Germany is one of France's biggest customers for electricity. Mostly nuclear generated..... IDIOT. [link to www.nature.com] Projecting. www.youtube.com/clandestinetimelord |
2342 (OP) User ID: 1649286 United States 06/21/2012 03:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? i give Germany serious props for their movement of running a country of renewable energy and not Nuclear. Quoting: 2342 With the sun beaming overhead and the nation hard at work, Germany turned to solar like never before last Friday and Saturday as the nation's PV installations fed 22 gigawatts of electricity into the grid at one point, providing nearly half of the country's energy needs. During one 24-hour period, Germany’s PV accounted for nearly a third of the nation’s energy needs on midday Friday when the nation’s factories and offices were humming along, and then it approached 50 percent midday Saturday as residents enjoyed a sun-filled weekend. If the Unites States did the same thing, it would bring a plethora of new Jobs to the Market. Good jobs that didn't destroy the planet and its inhabitants, but worked with the Earth and those that share this space. How about retrofitting old homes, factories and energy grids with more efficient systems? Wouldn't that create new jobs and take away our reliance of supposed fossil fuels? How fantastic would it be if you were in a City like New York or Los Angeles and you breathed in fresh air instead of pollution? Do you think people would be healthier and live a better quality life? Wouldn't this be good for the economy, bringing in new Jobs and infrastructure that fits in the 21st century? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize a few changes within the Energy Sector could and will change the World and make it a better place. "Cheese" ? Do you have a family? Do you want your kids to grow up in a world with leaking nuclear reactors, mercury laced food, toxins in most of the water? How about air filled with nasty pollutants, hot particles, aluminum and barium salts? Mahatma Gandhi "Be the change you want to see in the world." Idiotic statements like this annoy me. To compare any renewable energy source you always have to compare and relate the SqMtr or Sq/Mile land mass per person who lives there. IE the more space per person the more renewable energy is accepted and readily available to be utilised. Its Shill time! Last Edited by 2342 on 06/21/2012 03:29 PM www.youtube.com/clandestinetimelord |
Debauchery User ID: 15455863 United States 06/21/2012 03:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? We are waiting for hell to freeze over. I don't believe the United States will ever follow suit. And the LORD spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it. I am an evil giraffe, and I shall eat more leaves from this tree than perhaps I should, so that other giraffes may die. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 17217094 United States 06/21/2012 04:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? Congratulations to GERMANY.. They are shutting down their nuclear reactors. Six are offline already. The rest will be offline by 2021... [link to www.bbc.co.uk] "We learned from Fukushima that we have to deal differently with risks," she said. Under the German plan the country's seven oldest reactors - which were taken offline for a safety review immediately after the Japanese crisis - would never be used again. An eighth plant - the Kruemmel facility in northern Germany, which was already offline and has been plagued by technical problems - would also be shut down for good. Six others would go offline by 2021 at the latest and the three newest by 2022. The previous German government - a coalition of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens - decided to shut down Germany's nuclear power stations by 2021. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 17217094 United States 06/21/2012 04:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Germany got rid of their Nuclear Energy and can now run completely off Renewable Energy! What are we waiting for? Congratulations to GERMANY Germany sets new solar power record German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour - equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity - through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said. the 22 gigawatts of solar power per hour fed into the national grid on Saturday met nearly 50 percent of the nation's midday electricity needs. holly crap.... lol They are doing this in a country in northern europe, where the weather sucks and is cloudy most of the time. What is out excuse in the USA ? |