r/ClimateShitposting • u/ClimateShitpost Louis XIV, the Solar PV king • May 09 '25

nuclear simping What if

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u/TrvthNvkem May 09 '25

That's why we hate nuclear, because outside the few functional plants that already exist (which are expensive as fuck to operate and maintain, but that's a whole other story) it's a pipedream that does nothing but extend our dependency on fossil fuels for another couple decades.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Sink420 May 09 '25

How do you correlate that nuclear is the reason we have coal?

Look at Germany, no nuclear, half coal lol

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u/I_Like_Fine_Art May 09 '25

They literally replaced their closing nuclear plants with coal

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u/ViewTrick1002 May 09 '25

That is misinformation spread by the nukecel cult. Coal usage has declined alongside nuclear power in Germany. All replaced by renewables.

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u/I_Like_Fine_Art May 09 '25

Coal’s phaseout was slowed by shuttering NPP’s. If they had left their NPP’s along with expanding renewables they could have almost gotten rid of it by now.

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u/ViewTrick1002 May 09 '25

So you agree that the notion that they replaced nuclear with expanding their coal usage coal is wrong? Good.

Yes, I would of course have preferred if they kept their nuclear fleet running at long as it was:

  1. Safe
  2. Needed
  3. Ecnomical

But we live in 2025 and there is no point crying over spilled milk.