JustAnotherHun

Correct. Right now, Germany has 15.000 tons of hazardous waste from shutdown windmills. Until 2025 it will rise to 25.000 tons a year and in the following years up to 60.000 tons (data by Oeko-Institut Darmstadt). These numbers count the waste from rotors only, not the hundreds of thousands tons of concrete on and in the ground. At the moment, Germany builds 1.5 windmills each week. To replace all the dirty coal plants in the comming years, they plan to buid 4-5 each DAY (Olaf Scholz). That is wishful thinking. The German government was asked about the concepts to recycle all the hazardous waste. Answer: "we don't have any".

Exploding costs? So what! As if they only would explode when NPPs are built. Again some German highlights: Berlin Airport: Projected costs 2 Billion Euro Final Costs: 7.08 Billion € Construction start 2006, expected completion 2011. Completed October 2020. Stuttgart 21 (an underground train station): First projected in 1994. Construction start 02/2010. Projected completion 12/2019. Expected costs: 2.5 Billion €. Estimated costs from 2022: 9.55 Billion €. Should be partly completed in 2025.

Sad but true. Germany re-activated 14 old coal plants and more to come after the shutdown of the last NPPs. In the moment, more than 33% of the electricity production comes from hardcoal (60%) and even brown coal (40%). 14% more than a year before. Along with that Germany imports nuclear electricity from France and coal electricity from Poland. So Germany has one of the dirtiest energy mixes at the same level as Turkey and South Africa. 2019 the Wall Street Journal wrote "(Germany has) the world's dumbest energy poilcy". Things have turned to worse since then.

More good news for environment and the fight against climate change: While Germany shuts down it's last three NPPs and simultaneously re-activates old and dirty coal plants to avoid electricity shortage, Finnland starts Europe's most powerful reactor, providing 1.600 Megawatt in NPP Olkiluoto. The new reactor will produce 14 percent of Finnland's electricity.

Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I bought it. Had to wait around four month to get it. It took a bit time to "become friends" with the CBX because I drive big bikes with much more power back in Europe. But for my needes in Thailand it's quite perfect ????

Sweden is a good example for an energy and environmental protection policy without the ideological fanatism of the German Greeniban: "According to current plans we will produce electricity until deep in the 2040ies and this even might not be the end of the plant." (Josef Nylen, speaker of Forsmarks Krafgrupp AB). This opinion seems spported by the Swedish government, which plans to add further NPPs to the already existing six blocks: "Sweden is on a shopping tour for new nuclear power plants" and "If we want to replace all this with electricity, then it is clear to us: this cannot be done with renewable energies alone. We need nuclear energy for that" (Ebba Busch, energy minister and deputy prime minister) Right now, 30 percent of the Swedish electricity mix comes from NPPs. Until 2050 it's planed to rise to 50%. Again Ebba Bush: "Everybody who is willing to build new (nuclear) power plants in Seden is welcome"

Today Germany shuts down it's last three nuclear power plants - though the need of electricity will increase by 40 percent until 2030 - though the country has the by far highest electricity prices in Europe - though a majority wants either an extension for the last few NPPs (43%) or even a re-activation of already shut down NPPs (25%) while only 28% support the final shutdown. Let's have a look at other European countries : Poland: No NPP right now, 2 NPPs are planed Sweden: 6 NPPs, more are planed Finnland: 2 NPPs, 2 more are planed Czech Republic: 2 NPPs, one more planed Slovakia: 2 under onstruction Netherlands: lifetime extension fot existing NPPs, 2 new blocks planed Belgium: lifetime extension until 2035 France: 56 NPPs with lifetime extension to 60 years, 8 more until 2035, further 8 are plaed until 2050 Spain: 7 NPPs lifetime until between 2027 and 2035 Hungary, Bulgaria, Slowenia, are planing ne NPPs Italy and Romania are considering the construction of NPPs All those countries have no idea how to manage energy and how to save the climate. History shows clearly, the German way always was and is the only right one. We're driving down the empty climate-highway and all the oncoming cars are ghost drivers. Cheers ????