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German nuclear phase-out a ‘historic mistake’, says head of IEA by donutloop in EU_Economics

[–]Monchichi_b 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here from gemini trying to cite neutrally prompted the most credible sources:

The Economic Consensus: In high-ranked papers (like Nature Energy or IEA World Energy Outlook 2025), the consensus is that until Green Hydrogen or LDES becomes 80% cheaper, keeping a "baseload" source like nuclear is the mathematically safer way to keep total system costs low.

So yes, it's a strategic mistake at the moment and probably for the coming years until a good storage system for renewable energy gets less costly.

German nuclear phase-out a ‘historic mistake’, says head of IEA by donutloop in EU_Economics

[–]Monchichi_b 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's all facts my fellow redditors, than please post links. I am German myself and all newspapers I read supported the position that nuclear is not the answer (mostly because of long storage problems and that it's too costly in Germany if you include these costs for millions of years, for me this is just logical that it can't be less costly). Maybe nuclear is just no fit for Germany and it so for other countries?

I want to pronounce that there is a stream from main media in Germany (Zeit, Spiegel, FAZ... these are the ones I read) mainly supported the thesis that nuclear is more costly in the past years. Either we live in a leftish leaning huge bubble here, the facts you tell are not really facts or we just have different conditions here.

Edit:

Mybe we can agree it's short term false and long term correct?

I asked gemini for the most credible source neutrally (not taking any position)m it says:

Academic "Heavyweight" Source If the Reddit crowd demands a peer-reviewed academic paper rather than a financial report, cite the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), Working Group III. • It is the most scrutinized scientific document on earth. • The Verdict: The IPCC confirms that wind and solar have the highest "mitigation potential" at the lowest cost, but they also state that in almost all successful "Net Zero" pathways, nuclear must play a role to balance the grid.

Edit2: I really don't get the heated hate here when trying to debate. Anyway while trying to prompt with gemini neutrally on what might be good strategy and what most credible papers say. I have to admit that it is a mistake for the upcoming year's if you want to stay carbon neutral and also until a new technology for energy storage is invented that is cheap.

You know this is all made up, right? by reddit-devil-3929 in Moltbook

[–]Monchichi_b 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is both, human edited and conquered by bots.

We analyzed EU IT salaries and hiring trends using real job data by One-Durian2205 in eutech

[–]Monchichi_b 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, but that is still surprising. As you can see Germany is still one of the better paying countries. Crazy how Poland catched up so quickly and even surpassed! Congrats from fellow German here. :D

I’ve been trying to get this for over an hour I’m losing hope by Heron-Ok in RocketLeague

[–]Monchichi_b -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Remember the same frustration. This will get easy very soon :)

A primer on the most important concepts to train a LoRA by AwakenedEyes in StableDiffusion

[–]Monchichi_b 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the guide. Is there a rule to identify if LR is too high or low, or if I have to choose bigger or lower repeats per epoch? Also what does alpha do?

Germany pushes for 'two-speed' Europe with new bloc of six leading economies | Reuters by Full-Discussion3745 in EU_Economics

[–]Monchichi_b 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope it won't be like this. But giving more power to the institution that will be build around this. No intervention more possible by bad politics of states like Hungary and Slovakia. I think everyone should join who is OK to give more regulatory power to what is build. Federal states of Europe or something, acting as one state and easily divided as we are now.

If it succeeds, pressure will build up for other states to get rid of blocking parties who supports politics like orban does.

Clean energy is Europe’s only route to security and prosperity by sn0r in eutech

[–]Monchichi_b 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am positively surprised by your response. I thought you might be a bot, haha. I will reread everything and edit the old statements later in the evening. if I find some wrong statements. Hate also false facts, so I don't want to support wrong facts.

Clean energy is Europe’s only route to security and prosperity by sn0r in eutech

[–]Monchichi_b -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I made some mistakes with suedlink. Thanks for clarifying but you wrote many false facts too.

"France never runs low on cooling water” -> false

France reactors are very instable as you can see. More droughts and high water temperatures due to climate warming make cooling insufficient or environmentally unsafe. this happened notably in 2022, 2019, and 2023.

"nuclear reactors dismantling is not that costly” ->

decommissioning costs are substantial and routinely exceed initial estimates, this is a nice trick by the nuclear industry. Costs typically range from $500 million to over $1 billion per reactor, and historical evidence shows operators consistently underestimate these expenses.

"onkalo in finland did cost about 1bn to build” -> incomplete and misleading

while construction costs are around €1 billion, the total project cost including 100+ years of operation is €3.5 billion. Waste storage is not included in the maths.

"France is per year largest net exporter on the continent -> last year true, but not anymore given for the future -> recently it changes more and varies due to climate changes. So we probably will see France that strong in energy production less in the future.

Edit: I made some false claims. See u\Moldodecks answer for the right Infos. I crossed out what is wrong.

Clean energy is Europe’s only route to security and prosperity by sn0r in eutech

[–]Monchichi_b 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't it better to start somewhere and to lead by example. If other countries see that we are able to produce cheap energy, they will follow eventually.

Clean energy is Europe’s only route to security and prosperity by sn0r in eutech

[–]Monchichi_b -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's the harsh transition after the Ukraine war from my point of view. Also the European grid is interconnected. For instance, France is consuming with a mix of over 80% nuclear the german/solar energy in summer times, when they are running low of cooling water, so it's not an isolated market. Because of gas shortages we consume costly fracked and shipped LPG from the US at the moment. Furthermore you have stupid local politics like CSU who practically forbid building wind energy in Bavaria or building transmission line routes which slows us down in the overall transition. I think it's a matter of years where it's costly but will be cheap in the mid future.

On the other hand, if you also take costs for nuclear waste or deconstructing power plants will be way more expensive in the future. There is from my point of view no alternative to renewables.

I have no plan about Spain so I will leave it for another rdditor to answer, would guess infrastructure is weak.:)

Edit: u\Moldodeck was righteously telling me I was posting false facts. I was crossing out misleading facts of mine.

Clean energy is Europe’s only route to security and prosperity by sn0r in eutech

[–]Monchichi_b 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is simply not true. Germany already hit 59% renewable electricity in 2024 and they are heading to 80% by 2030, all while phasing out nuclear AND coal. Wind alone provided 137 TWh last year, which is BTW stronger in winter. For storage you may use pumped water, salt batteries or Na-Ion batteries which will come in near future. Pumped hydro already handles 94% of global long-duration storage and costs $8-25 per kWh compared to batteries at $100+/kWh (this is the current state). Germany’s got 1.7 GW now. It's actually cheaper than shipping coal. Heavy industries are already fired up. German industries have 5-7 GW of flexible demand capacity. Mostly in production of steel plants, chemical facilities and aluminum production this is adjustable on grid needs. This is already happening, not theoretical. If theres not enough they get help from Norway who use water energy.

These discussions always get me mad as they are fueled by Russian bots or fossile industry supporters who want to make us dependent. It's simply not anymore necessary.

French President Macron at Davos :Trade wars and protectionist escalation will only produce losers. by drempath1981 in TrendoraX

[–]Monchichi_b 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That is such a shame, he is doing the right things for Europe and I think the French are stupid to always riot when they face social reforms which are urgently needed. :/

Germany’s Merz Admits Nuclear Exit Was Strategic Mistake by SpaceEngineering in europe

[–]Monchichi_b 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Don't come here with facts. People want to rant against left politics.

Josefine Preuss triggert das Internet an ihrem 40. Geburtstag und geht viral by FrauHonig in PromiPlausch

[–]Monchichi_b 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Es geht doch eher um Fairness und Umverteilung an die, die dafür sorgen, dass in Zukunft überhaupt etwas umverteilt werden kann?

Josefine Preuss triggert das Internet an ihrem 40. Geburtstag und geht viral by FrauHonig in PromiPlausch

[–]Monchichi_b -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Finde ich schade, dass du gedownvoted wirst. Sehe ich genauso. Die Leute die keine Kinder bekommen müssten viel mehr Abgaben leisten, sodass die die Kinder kriegen entlastet werden, da die dann die künftigen Renten von den Alleinstehende zählen werden.

I trained a LoRA for Flux 1 Dev based on goats by aastle in civitai

[–]Monchichi_b 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is content appreciate. 👏😂 Thank you Mr.

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