We don’t vote our chancellor, nor our ministers. We vote our parliament, the parliament votes the chancellor, the chancellor appoints their cabinets.

Upfront, absolutely. But cost drop dramatically with life time of the plant.

Even over the lifetimenof a plant, nuclear is by far the most expensive form of power generation.

That’s wrong. Nuclear Power Plants are incredibly safe. The security standards are immense and if everything is done by the books, nothing will happen.

Yet no insurance company will insure an NPP. They are uninsurable.

We’ve gotten really damn good at reusing burnt out fuel rods. I think we’re able to reuse like 60% of the burnt out fuel rods, dramatically lowering the waste we produce. And I once read about a theoretical processing method that could be able to reuse 95% of the rods, making the waste almost negligible.

We already do have a huge problem storing the waste we don’t have and nuclear waste is too dangerous to rely on hypothetical reusability. Germany’s federal Ministry for Nuclear Safety released a report in 2015 estimating the total cost of dismantling and managing nuclear waste from german NPPs based on 2012 prices and not including the cost of disposal facilities to be aroun 6 billion Euro until 2080.

We don’t fulfill the requirements for widely used renewable power. […] 100% renewable energy is never going to be a thing for germany.

It is though. First thing you miss ia that Germany does not have an isolated power grid. In fact, the Conrinental European Synchronous Area is one of the largest synchronous electrical grids in the world.
Second, the number of available batteries is constantly growing with fun concepts as using your electric car’s battery for overnight electricity. Every home can have sufficient battery storage individually (even without BEVs).
Third, there are still massive capacities for wind parks and solar parks all over Germany and certain concepts can even help mitigating certain consequences of climate change already in effect, like agriphotovoltaic protecting crops.

The future is renewables. Nuclear is superfluous, too expensive and too much hassle.

Btw, here is more to read on why nuclear is not a solution (german website): https://quellen.tv/energie#Kernkraft

Most of our fuel rods came from russia. Also, nuclear is prohibitively expensive, uninsureable, and has unanswered questions regarding permanent waste storage.

Renewables are the answer, not nuclear.

Wait, I misread your comment, thought you said “europeans laugh about americans having AC in residential buildings”.

But now I’m even more confused about what you’re trying to say…

That was 2023 to prevent an energy crisis triggered by the russian invasion in Ukraine and these coal plants (not mines!) were already shut down again.

And nuclear is not an alternative.

What support? Merz and Reiche don’t count.

I don’t know why this BS is still upheld so firmly but nobody laughs about AC in residential buildings. And I personally never heard someone doing that even years ago before when heat waves in Europe were less common and less severe.

Also, this:

you have to be a sort of clown to rent a place from greedy landlords,

is an extremely priviliged and ignorant statemenr, wtf?

“Fun” fact: this heat wave already has a Wikipedia page that also shows of the 22 affected areas only four (Austria, Jersey, Slovakia and Slovenia) have not (yet) recorded a record high temperature.

“Meme”

That is not “the green movement”. That is corporations not giving a fuck and only doing what they are forced to do.

How much is that in useful units? xD

How much is that in useful units? xD

How much is that in useful units? xD

When you’re used to lower temperatures, it is. Especially indoors where the air can get stuffy pretty quickly depending on room size and number of people.

Everyone can deal with an indoor temperature of 25C, that’s literally unproblematic.

Hahahahaha, what? 25°C indoors is hellish.

Still depends. The air usually is better outside as it can get pretty stuffy inside quickly.

It also depends on what you’re doing. Id I’m going outside and do something (even just going for a walk) I’m gonna start wearing shorts and t-shirt at around 17°C. If I stay inside playing video games and barely move at all i might wrap myself in a comfy blanket or hoodie even a bit above 20°C (especially with open windows and a nice breeze).

He is though. He is a US citizen and moves in the absolutely upmost echelons of US-american society (politically and hierarchically speaking). He participares in US economy and politics more that in any other economy and politics (though he tries to reach for several european states’ politics, too) and is perfectly adapted to US conservative/far right culture, language and rhetorics. He is as US-american as it gets.

Nope, it really is something anti-BEV folks say. “We can’t just all switch to electric cars, we couldn’t possibly charge too many simultanously.”

Yes, obviously.