Kommt auf deine Lebensumstände an! In meiner 60 qm2 Wohnung sind nur 2 von 6 Heizkörpern an, da ich keine Ahnung davon habe, für welchen Preis mein Vermieter Gas einkauft! Fühlt sich an wie in den 60er Jahren. Da wurdebdas Wohnzimmer auch nur am Wochenende beheizt ! Die Dramatik in diesem Video dient der Verhöhnung der " dummen Deutschen " und verschweigt, dass das was hier abgeht eine Folge der Fremdbestimmung seit 45 ist! TH-cam Kanal von Thorsten Schulte Silberjunge:" 120 Jahre fremdbestimmt "! TH-cam Kanal dieZuversicht:" Der geheime Krieg gegen das deutsche Volk und seine historischen Wurzeln "!
This is not uncommon even in Australia or the USA where black coal is surface mined. The only difference in Germany is: We are a densely populated country so people have to move.
If the coal seam is about 80m thick* it is profitable for RWE, the poeple who get compensation and provides inexpensive energy. 80m means 80m3 under each m2 of land. With about 40 €/ton of lignite the value is 3000 €/m2. The area west of Cologne is mostly agriculture. Perhaps 1% is covered with buildings.
LFTR MSR reactor was built in the 1960's and needs no fuel rods, needs no major water source for cooling. It was failed safe every weekend for 6,000 hrs run time, and will burn nuclear waste for energy. 90% of fuel rods that are considered "waste" can be burned in this type reactor, china has built a prototype 60 years after the original. They could make a fortune getting paid to clean up the "waste" that is actually unused fuel.
Germany has about 17 000 tons of spend fuel. Assuming 95% of this is unused fuel, that equates to 16 150 tons of fuel that's just waiting to be used. This amount of fuel represents 374 680 TWh (thermal) of energy. let's say our reactor is very inefficient and runs at 25% thermal efficiency. The usable amount of energy still sits at 93 670 TWh. Powering Germany's electricity grid (560 TWh/year) with this fuel would last them 167 years. Every reactor with a GWe output needs 1 ton of U-235 per year. the total fuel would be about 30 tons (3% enrichment U-235). To obtain this one ton you need about 200 tons of natural uranium. So somewhere there is this depleted uranium that contains a potential energy that is imense.
The MSR was inferior to the LWR. The internal fuel processing is very complex and would make such a plant extremly expensive. With fuel reprocessing you can make better use of nuclear fuel and spent nuclear fuel independent of the reactor type. Ideal in this aspect are non moderated reactors with a high breeding rate. The FHR reactor as it is promoted by Kairo power is from my point of view a better concept. It combines the advantage of a MSR (high energy density) with the advantages of a pebble bed reactor as the higher breeding. It avoids the very complex internal fuel reprocessing and the corrosion from fission products.
@@holgernarrog962 Yeah the Kairos reactor is an interesting one i wish them the best of luck. I do however see a challenge in reprocessing the pebbles. This is going to be very complex compaired to current LWR fuel. I think in the short therm the FBR (sodium or lead cooled) will be "easier" to create a closed fuel cycle with.
@@stijn2644 I do not think that they will reprocess the FHR pebble fuel. They will implement an open fuel cycle. With pebble fuel you can easily achieve a burn-up of 90 or 100 MWd/Kg and only need a enrichment to about 6%. Due to a breeding factor of 0.82 it is much more than LWR fuel.
@@holgernarrog962 I was thinking the same thing. It's hard enough as it is to create a new nuclear reactor company, let alone developing a closed fuel cycle that's economically competitive with cheap fresh uranium.
I watched a video about nuclear power in Germany and what you didn’t mention is that the main reason they don’t like nuclear energy is because of the way they were dealing with the spent fuel. There spent fuel disposal has been pretty contentious to say the least and people got sick and tired of the lax safety standards and regulations.
Yes, but burning coal releases more radioactivity into the environment than the spent fuel. And the spent fuel can be recycled into MOx or used in advanced (waste burning) reactors, e.g. CANDU reactors or molten salt reactors. And the real waste problem is the coal ash, for which there aren't any good solutions. It's just stored until a landslide dumps it into a river, or it sits in a landfill slowly polluting the water table.
The spent nuclear fuel is from its facts a big advantage of nuclear compared to coal* or dirty solar and wind. *German nuclear power plants created about 15 to 25 tons of spent highly radioactive fuel annually. This compares to some 2 - 4.4 M tons of coal or 400.000 tons of chemotoxic ashes and filter dust. This ashes contain up to 200g/uranium per ton. In deutschen Kernkraftwerken fielen jährlich jeweils etwa 15 - 25to abgebrannter Brennstoff als sog. hochradioaktiver Atommüll an. Vergleichsweise entspricht dies jeweils der Energiemenge von 2 - 4.4 Mio. to Kohle, bzw. 400.000 to giftiger Asche und Filterstäube als Rückstände der Verbrennung.
@1:31 HA look at that. You're in the middle of a feild in a little plastic cube. Idc what anyone says, you're carefully selected CGI inputs are awesome!
I don't think Fossil fuels are a problem... Just an overpopulated bunch of Humans, burning it! 😂 Remember, for Earth to remain sustainable, 500 M humans, NOT 8 Billion. Currently we need FIVE (5) Earth like planets, in our current state.
The consequences of the anti-nuclear propaganda has been disastrous. It made Europe reliant on Russian energy, which is probably why Russia just got a finger-wagging for invading Crimea and Donbas, which in turn resulted in an all-out war for the remainder of Ukraine. And now we're burning coal instead of getting clean and extremely efficient nuclear energy.
While solar and wind doesn't do anything half the time and energy storage is too expensive to ever realize. The green party is causing what they meant to prevent
There is no all-out war for the whole of Ukraine... only the contested regions that comprised Yanukovich's political power base. Residents in these parts never wanted to be forced to choose between the EU, NATO or Russia in the first place. But once their hand was forced by NATO, they overwhelmingly prefer Russia. But they REALLY wanted strategic ambiguity and the ability to trade with both the EU and their Russian cousins/neighbors alike.
Can't shut down those coal mines or any of the petroleum producing sites just yet. Where would they get all the energy and chemicals needed to build solar panels and wind turbines. They're roughly 96% petroleum based products.
I would argue, that the solar panels, wind turbines and the batteries they use to store energy is worse for the environment than oil and gas. How many minerals have to be dug up to build, maintain, store and dispose of after use? Are these minerals more abundant and less environmentally destructive to mine? Germany has proven, the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine all day long.
We were at over 50% renewables for German electricity in 2023, with natural gas and coal down to a total of about 40%, and we are aiming for totally getting rid of coal powered plants by 2038.
@@kevindevlieger300 gas only accounted for about 15% of our electricity in 2023, and one of the disadvantages of nuclear plants is that they are not very flexible. So you need to compensate for that with much more flexible plants, which in most cases means: natural gas. So no, keeping our nuclear plants running longer would not have changed the gas situation. The actual problem with gas was rather that half of our residential heating relies on natural gas.
As a German I can tell you that you don't get a say in what your country does. Same as everywhere else. How you feel about a topic is irrelevant. Basically everyone hates Daylight Saving Time and it still happens twice a year. So if you like or hate coal mining, nuclear power or whatever, it really does not matter. But you get to vote every few years to make you feel better without changing the Status Quo.
I don't disagree but someone decided to put up inefficient expensive wind turbines and solar panels and close the nuclear plants at the average German citizens expense.
@@25Soupy no, originally because imported back coal was less expensive. The amount of electricity produced from natural gas has not changed much over the decades. The phase out only took so long as local black coal mines still got subsidized to not kill that local historic industry immediately (the "Kohlepfennding" was added to the price of electricity for that). Lignite was still competitive as it is found near the surface, while German black coal mines had gone up to one kilometer deep over time Now we are trying to phase out lignite next, aiming for 2038, while renewables are still on the incline, already providing more than half of our electricity. Natural gas plants will still be around for a while as they are the most flexible way to quickly adjust supply along with demand, until we finally get better storage options. We have a few pumped storage hydro power stations, but the potential for those has long been maxed out. Oh, and gas plants were needed for pretty much the same reason even back when about 30% of our electricity was from nuclear pants.
The coal is crap too. It has low btu’s and only saving grace is it’s easy to get. It takes three times that coal to put out the same heat as top grade coal.
what do they do with the coal ash? in the US we have tons of abandoned all Ash dump. there is literally no long-term planning of what to do with this toxic ash
I used to live in a place in Scotland called Coalburn.. named so because of the coal mines..it being open coal mines .. was devastating to the surrounding area as you can guess..but when it was exhausted and they refurbished the land..25 yrs later it’s still open and practically of all shrubbery or plants. It’s covered in marsh grass. It’ll never be the same.
When it comes to CO2 emissions the more carbon your fuel has the higher the CO2 emission per kilojoule freed. It's as simple as that. For that reason lignite isn't the worst polluter in regard to CO2 emissions. It's basically halfway between bio-fuel/peat and coal.
I live in Germany and due to all the advancements in LED technology,I only spend about 50 € a month on electricity. My usage is never higher than 130kw
14:35 I don't understand why nobody bothers to develop geothermal power plants which can be built in areas where the heat is just wasted to space near volcanic vents mantle plumes etc (ThinkYellowstone). Why do we see so many dams but not water wheels or tidal generation which can be done when the tides coming in or going out through any pinch point or even wave energy by building special buoys which uses the energy to directly turn a generator as the ocean has a ridiculous amount of energy in it. Granted this causes problems on a widespread grid but could easily do a big part of the immediate areas energy production doing a single home on a much smaller scale which eliminates the need for transmission over long distances which is what most of the energy produced actually does... To get the much smaller percent to where it's going to be used
We need the label "green" Energie to calm our conscious for the gigantic LED screens on our streets, in Malls, at the bakery, the three in our homes, pharmacies. For all the useful now electrified gadgets we didn't know to be in need, to put a light in every imaginable corner of our surroundings cause we adults are now strangely in fear of the dark and to be able to listen unavoidable any annoying commercial jingle in the last corner of a parking lot.
Im from Brandenburg lusatia and I can confirm hearing things about the residents that used to inhabit the old villages and many places have the neu (new in German) badge infront of them, so the original place was removed and the place basically relocated
It's not hard to figure Germanies madness on shutting their energy production down, when you realize the EU with Germany at the vanguard adopted degrowth policies several years ago. (See Dutch farmers)
The energy crisis didn't come /appear out of nowhere, environmentalists' agendas, politics, and intervention into the internal affairs of other countries, EU Chefin acts in such a way that she thinks she owns the whole of Europe, jobless self-absorbs activists who have nothing to do except interrupting people's life, etc. are the reason and the same people complain about financial and economical problems!
the use of fossil fuel and renewable energy will coexist for a really long time in the world since there will always be people using coal as soon as it still exist
@3stesse yep. France already using nuclear energy, if something happened it might hit germany anyway. I dont get either why people dont like it. Fire existed since from the beginning of humanity and it was used to burn down towns and villages. Still fire was still used around the world o-o
2018 was the last coal dug up. UK shut down all coal mining already in the 90th with Thatcher because coal mining was to expensive. in Germany we paid for 30 more years push down the prices to get the stuff burned. It was called "kohlepfening" and sounded less, political marketing. German coal was 5 to 10 times more expensive than imported once, due to labor cost. these open pit mines only work because they have a conveyor directly from the pit to the powerplant, check sschwarze pumpe". Visiting one is impressive because the digger inside are 80m tall and are totally below ground level if you look inside. To do the landfill afterwards generates lake with the hope of tourism. Recently they had hughe issues because the soil does not get stable enough and some houses next to the lake in a landslide end up in a lake, bad for tourism. For sure this is the dirties way to generate electricity.
there is an error in your visualisation at 10:40 - here a Nuclear Plant is visualized in Austria - I can assure you - Austria is the only country with a 1:1 model of a Nuclear Plant - that never produced any Power! -> Austria decided against Nuclear after the first reactor was built
Well, we managed to reduce our use of coal for electricity (and that is what the lignite is almost exclusively used for) from over 45% two decades ago to just about 25% now, and plan to completely phase it out by 2038, with our share of renewable sources to generate electricity now being at over 50% and growing. I thing Germany is not doing too bad compared to other countries.
Tiny countries like Germany are the most concerned about US energy cause they're in trouble & need carbon credits to destroy larger countries economies.
The CO2 reduction Germany has achieved seems impressive. There is a level of CO2 at which the environment is no longer impacted, if Germany is at such a level maybe they can be cut some slack and keep some coal usage.
No mention of the lack of clean burning Russian gas? Blowing up the pipeline cost Germany its economy as well as a relatively clean and definitely inexpensive source of energy.
The 'Fun' thing is that the very people who want solar and wind power (and wind turbines side to side everywhere) are AGAINST having powerlines (both above and below ground) anywhere near them.
thank you for talking about the issue of disposessioning and resetteling....sadly even germans tend to ignore this because there is no solution that makes you look good but believe me when i say that nobody is used to that but protests are just ignored its onl important to people when they are directly affected
There is a giant Red Elephant missing from the explanations given for the current energy problems. There was a plan to use natural gas to produce electricity, but this was somehow missed. I guess the hammer came down and buried the sickle?
There was never a plan to replace nuclear and/or coal with natural gas here in Germany. Natural gas share of our electricity production is pretty constant between 12% and 15% only, we have replaced nuclear completely, and coal by about half, with renewables since 2007. Major users of natural gas in Germany are the industry (consuming about half of it, especially the chemical industry) at over 50%, and residential heating at about 30% (about half of residential homes are heated with natural gas here), the amount of imported gas we use to produce electricity is only about 13%.
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Solar plus batteries is very fast. Germany needs to eliminate tariffs on solar panels and batteries The Darlington Point Solar Farm in New South Wales produces 333 MW It was completed in about 2.5 years.
Save Nature by making Nature into the most space demanding power generation At least you arent suggesting bird choppers...I mean wind power. They have daily crews clean up dead eagles and vultures every day.
What happens to those batteries in 10 or 12 years when their life expectancy is over? This goes with cars, laptops or any other thing that requires batteries They have a relatively short life cycle. When we are talking about power plants a coal plant can literally run 50 or 100 years without major rebuilding other than basic maintenance. Unfortunately for the foreseeable future all of us are going to be relying on oil and coal for at least part of our energy needs.
The Germans turn out to be real Schildbürgers (Schilda citizens who lived in the town of Schilda - real simpletons) who tried to capture sunlight in sacks and transport it into the town hall they had built, forgetting to put windows in the walls. When the stored sunlight was of no use, they drilled holes in the walls and sat in the cold with their wisdom.
Dumm, wenn man seit den verlorenen Kriegen, zu seinem Schaden fremdbestimmt wird! Danke an unsere amerikanischen Besatzerfreunde, die unsere Gasleitungen gesprengt haben und den Politikmarionetten in Berlin die Umsetzung des Morgenthau-Plans vorgegebenen haben zusätzlich zur Umsetzung von UN-PLAN REPLACEMENT MIGRATION KALLERGHIE-PLAN HOOTHON-PLAN
We are planning to close down the last coal plants here in Germany by 2038, meanwhile in 2023 we already produced 27% of our electricity from wind vs. 26% still from coal. Coal usage for electricity has gone down from about 45% to now 27% over the last two decades. Over 50% is now from renewable sources alone. I think we are doing relatively fine.
@@hartmutholzgraefe Teacher: "If we breathe oxygen in the daytime, what do we breathe in the night?" Pupil: "Nitrogen!" --- If we use solar during daytime, what do we use in the night? - - Moonshine!
Tough choices for sure. Perhaps the future of energy is completely decentralized power with battery storage. Homes built with solar and wind in mind from the get go, and a shift from energy black-holes like apartments to sustainable and more livable 2 storey swellings that come standard with full solar and wind gens right on site. Maintenance of all this would probably generate more jobs than coal mines with skilled trades specializing in these set-ups. Of course there is no tax to collect on power you make yourself, but that's a different problem and perhaps a quiet reason why it never seems to take off. Skip lithium for batteries to alleviate all concerns about fires and standardize NiMH batteries to 100% recyclability. Numerous job making opportunities to be explored here for tens of thousands is not hundreds of thousands of people.
Yeah that program is not progressing much, 2 years to dig a meters of tunnel. And the proposed North Queensland project just got shut down by the newly elected Liberal government as being “ economically unviable “ whatever that means. Can’t afford the rolls Royce that would last a lifetime, so settle for a cheap car that needs to be replaced every few years, ending up costing far more then the RR
@@Robert-xs2mv Yeah that's a mega screw up ATM bad surveying of the ground. But still have the working hydro, and its smartest way to store energy without producing carbon.
Unlike Poland we are trying to get rid of coal powered plants by 2038. From 2007 to 2023 we have reduced the amount of coal used for electricity from 46% to just 25%.
I wonder how much is true your show. For example in Poland is just 1 nucler reactor just for technical and medical purpose. In 11:.. you show like Poland have 2 nuclear power reactor.
i think as long other industiral heavy countries like US and China dont switch to renewables. Or until its cheaper to produce heavy industry using renewables i dont think Germany stops with their coal anytime soon.
We have a planned deadline for shutting down the last coal power plant by 2028. We have already reduced the amount of coal in electricity production from about 45% to now just 25% over the last two decades. In addition to completely replace the ca. 30% of nuclear electricity we once had. Industrial use of coal to e.g.produce steel is a different story, but for that you don't use lignite anyway.
@@hartmutholzgraefe sound all nice and well but if we check the CO2 production per KW energy produced then germany is way up there compared to any other EU country so deffinity the addiction to coal is quite noticable. I still dont understand why the nuke plants where shut down and more coal consumption replaced the nuclear consumption.
We already have almost 60% renewable energies and now a motivation to grow that number instead on resting on nuclear waste producing, obsolete npps. Additionally, as France is showing, they are not at all economically viable, the french company powering them has 70 billion in depths, the renovation of of the 50 German npps would cost beyond 1 billion each, they're building a new one in Britain for 38 billion instead of the 21 planned.
Oil never played a big role in German electricity production, and coal has declined from about 45% 20 years ago to now "just" 25%. I might have prefered "shut down coal now, nuclear 2nd", too, maybe, but that train has long left. The current plan is to shut down the last coal power plant by 2038. The advantage of lignite always was that it was a domestic source, so guaranteed for some energy independence. As renewables are also domestic resources this aspect has become less and less important over the last two decades. Domestic black coal is already history, the last underground mine has been shut down a few years ago already.
Actually it is hard to argue against LFTR and other fast reactor technology. Gen 4 reactors are safe and don't produce the waste of old technology gen 2 reactors currently in use. Floride and sodium molten salt reactors are walk away safe. China just authorised a molten salt reactor Mostly for scientific use, and India is working on their version. British companies are working on a fast reactor that also uses molten salts instead of pressurized water reactors. Both can use current waste as fuel and are safe from Fukushima and Chernbyl type accidents.
ruZZia-driven nuclear propaganda in a lot of comments here 😖 Europe is more dependent on ruZZia for nuclear, than for anything else, even natural gas and oil! Besides nuclear being ineffective, inflexible and very expensive, the real problem was Putin's puppets preventing the growth of solar and wind energy in 2014!
The same people who want 'green energy' invent fictional birds, lizards, insects and so on that never have been observed by anyone on the planet, and claim that the projects they want are endangering those imaginary animals or plants.
@@mark7s980 so.. in germany a lot of people stop wind turbines from being build bcs they dont like how it changes the view. Some worry about animals getting hurt or noise
we were originally ahead of schedule but then a certain fat spd politician of the groko with his hands deep in the coal lobby decided (by himself) to put a stop to our national expansion of solar and wind energy. since then weve been just trailing along barely getting anything done. without that we would have been well into our estimated 80%+ production of renewable energy by 2025 and full green energy sufficiency by 2030. and with that germany would have been the first country in the world to run entirely on renewable energy. but as always greedy politicians f***ed us over.
@@uteriel282 Doesn't help that Bavaria wants to be the fillet piece of Germany, and then throws a hissy fit and would like to go back to having their king back, mentality wise at least.
Coal will remain popular for at least a hundred years. Wind and solar are intermittent sources, and while grid-level batteries help stabilize the grid, you cannot run large cities exclusively on renewable power. Yawn -
Germany has reduced coal by almost half over the last 20 years in parallel with phasing out nuclear completely, and is aiming to shut down the last coal plant by 2038. We already now produce more electricity from wind alone then from coal
Watop used to be about animal and nature. Now days I look at watop.... All I see " USA this, USA That. This country This. This country that " I miss old watop. Don't have to upload every 2 day. Just make videos about animal or nature again man. Or will just unsubscribe. I been watching your video when you guys had like 600k subscribers
nothing special, its just low grade coal, with big share of minerals (ash after burning) and hydrogen, suitable only for energy production, not for metallurgy. The same remnants of dinosaur time swamp plants but not fully carbonised and spoiled with ballast.
It is near the surface, so cheap to mine. Not good for anything but heating or running power plants. These days used for power plants only, the plants are near the pits and the transport is directly from the pit to the plant via conveyor belts only. The main reason for still using it used to be that it is the only domestic carbon based source Germany has -- our black coal mines were pretty much used up, mines were dug up to a kilometer deep, and the little domestic oil and natural gas reserves we have are negligible. But we have quite a bit of wind, and still enough sun for modern solar panels to be economical, also not as much as in more southern regions. We now produce about 12% of our electricity from photovoltaic, 26% from wind, and another 14% from other renewable sources, increasing year after year.
@@hartmutholzgraefe oh yes, green preaches with net share of generation again and again. How much PV generation you have at 1800 right now, in November?
@antontsau solar of course only works through the lit day, but that is also where we have peak demand. We get twice as much from wind than from solar though, plus water, bio gas, geothermal, which all do not depend on daylight. And wind here in germany is more common in fall and winter than in summer.
@@hartmutholzgraefe Nope. In modern world peak demand is on evenings, when people come home, switch on heaters, appliances, lights, stoves, chargers for their so loud propagated EVs... Read about "duck curve" or check (we in Australia have it online in realtime) network operator reports. Oh yes. And then SUDDENLY you get no wind evening, and cant do anything with it because you closed all controllable generation.
The core issue is not just the timeline but the lack of comprehensive policies to phase out coal alongside nuclear energy. Over the last 20 years, Germany has had ample opportunity to accelerate its transition to renewables, implement stricter coal reduction targets, and invest in energy storage and grid modernization. The reality that “Germany might have done something but has not” underscores the need for more robust accountability and urgency, particularly given the climate crisis.
Where's your change at metric ton of CO2 to metric tons per square kilometer I bet that chart increases tenfold and Germany being the smallest landmass per amount of low energy cold burned is probably at the top of the list
I don't care about the anti-nuclear whining. At root, an energy grid requires a simple power source that can be counted on to run 24/7 as needed. Nuclear is the only zero carbon way to generate that power in mass at this point in most places. If you are anti-nuclear power, you are pro-fossil fuel.
@@danabell2709 yep. I was asked years ago 7-10 y ago when I was in school, if I was also a trump support bcs I vote for nuclear. She didnt mean to but that insulted me bcs theres absolut nothing wrong about nuclear power. Edit: Im NOT a trump supporter... o-o Europe doesnt like trump, I think.. .
The worst disasters to the environment historically have been nuclear meltdowns. Very hypocritical and hysterically funny to me that so called greenies now want nuclear over fossil fuels. Btw, solar is also carbon free.
I live in Germany. It is by far not as dramatic as it sounds in your report.
Environmental consequences of frecking gas seem worse to me.
Kommt auf deine Lebensumstände an! In meiner 60 qm2 Wohnung sind nur 2 von 6 Heizkörpern an, da ich keine Ahnung davon habe, für welchen Preis mein Vermieter Gas einkauft! Fühlt sich an wie in den 60er Jahren. Da wurdebdas Wohnzimmer auch nur am Wochenende beheizt !
Die Dramatik in diesem Video dient der Verhöhnung der " dummen Deutschen " und verschweigt, dass das was hier abgeht eine Folge der Fremdbestimmung seit 45 ist!
TH-cam Kanal von Thorsten Schulte Silberjunge:" 120 Jahre fremdbestimmt "!
TH-cam Kanal dieZuversicht:" Der geheime Krieg gegen das deutsche Volk und seine historischen Wurzeln "!
"It's not that bad"
Meanwhile your government would rather shut it down in favor of importing oil from Russia lol.
It's bad.
Yeah, that "pub" is a chain saw shop. 🙈 High-quality journalism for sure.
Don't assume the kids know anything.....😅
Germans have strange drinking habits.
This is not uncommon even in Australia or the USA where black coal is surface mined. The only difference in Germany is: We are a densely populated country so people have to move.
If the coal seam is about 80m thick* it is profitable for RWE, the poeple who get compensation and provides inexpensive energy.
80m means 80m3 under each m2 of land. With about 40 €/ton of lignite the value is 3000 €/m2. The area west of Cologne is mostly agriculture. Perhaps 1% is covered with buildings.
@@holgernarrog962 and it will be returned to surface use after the mine used up and backfilled, 50-80 years.
Bro, with all the crazy going on, I don't blame you for desiring anonymity
Nothing new here, has been going on for years.
@Billy-the-Kid Exactly bro
@@Billy-the-Kid I honestly think its weird af that they bring it up every single video lol
@@TchSktch Good point. Why?
Well, it does make me believe that I first need to assume everything is false and look it up myself if I haven't heard of it.
Gives new meaning to the musical ensemble named Mannheim Steamroller.
Every German Pub sells motorized Scythes 😂😂😂
LFTR MSR reactor was built in the 1960's and needs no fuel rods, needs no major water source for cooling.
It was failed safe every weekend for 6,000 hrs run time, and will burn nuclear waste for energy.
90% of fuel rods that are considered "waste" can be burned in this type reactor, china has built a prototype
60 years after the original. They could make a fortune getting paid to clean up the "waste" that is actually unused fuel.
Germany has about 17 000 tons of spend fuel. Assuming 95% of this is unused fuel, that equates to 16 150 tons of fuel that's just waiting to be used. This amount of fuel represents 374 680 TWh (thermal) of energy. let's say our reactor is very inefficient and runs at 25% thermal efficiency. The usable amount of energy still sits at 93 670 TWh. Powering Germany's electricity grid (560 TWh/year) with this fuel would last them 167 years.
Every reactor with a GWe output needs 1 ton of U-235 per year. the total fuel would be about 30 tons (3% enrichment U-235). To obtain this one ton you need about 200 tons of natural uranium. So somewhere there is this depleted uranium that contains a potential energy that is imense.
The MSR was inferior to the LWR. The internal fuel processing is very complex and would make such a plant extremly expensive.
With fuel reprocessing you can make better use of nuclear fuel and spent nuclear fuel independent of the reactor type. Ideal in this aspect are non moderated reactors with a high breeding rate.
The FHR reactor as it is promoted by Kairo power is from my point of view a better concept. It combines the advantage of a MSR (high energy density) with the advantages of a pebble bed reactor as the higher breeding. It avoids the very complex internal fuel reprocessing and the corrosion from fission products.
@@holgernarrog962 Yeah the Kairos reactor is an interesting one i wish them the best of luck. I do however see a challenge in reprocessing the pebbles. This is going to be very complex compaired to current LWR fuel. I think in the short therm the FBR (sodium or lead cooled) will be "easier" to create a closed fuel cycle with.
@@stijn2644 I do not think that they will reprocess the FHR pebble fuel. They will implement an open fuel cycle.
With pebble fuel you can easily achieve a burn-up of 90 or 100 MWd/Kg and only need a enrichment to about 6%. Due to a breeding factor of 0.82 it is much more than LWR fuel.
@@holgernarrog962 I was thinking the same thing. It's hard enough as it is to create a new nuclear reactor company, let alone developing a closed fuel cycle that's economically competitive with cheap fresh uranium.
I watched a video about nuclear power in Germany and what you didn’t mention is that the main reason they don’t like nuclear energy is because of the way they were dealing with the spent fuel. There spent fuel disposal has been pretty contentious to say the least and people got sick and tired of the lax safety standards and regulations.
Yes, but burning coal releases more radioactivity into the environment than the spent fuel. And the spent fuel can be recycled into MOx or used in advanced (waste burning) reactors, e.g. CANDU reactors or molten salt reactors. And the real waste problem is the coal ash, for which there aren't any good solutions. It's just stored until a landslide dumps it into a river, or it sits in a landfill slowly polluting the water table.
The spent nuclear fuel is from its facts a big advantage of nuclear compared to coal* or dirty solar and wind.
*German nuclear power plants created about 15 to 25 tons of spent highly radioactive fuel annually. This compares to some 2 - 4.4 M tons of coal or 400.000 tons of chemotoxic ashes and filter dust. This ashes contain up to 200g/uranium per ton.
In deutschen Kernkraftwerken fielen jährlich jeweils etwa 15 - 25to abgebrannter
Brennstoff als sog. hochradioaktiver Atommüll an. Vergleichsweise entspricht dies jeweils
der Energiemenge von 2 - 4.4 Mio. to Kohle, bzw. 400.000 to giftiger Asche und Filterstäube
als Rückstände der Verbrennung.
Only in the tiny minds of woke
@1:31 HA look at that. You're in the middle of a feild in a little plastic cube.
Idc what anyone says, you're carefully selected CGI inputs are awesome!
I don't think Fossil fuels are a problem...
Just an overpopulated bunch of Humans, burning it! 😂
Remember, for Earth to remain sustainable, 500 M humans, NOT 8 Billion.
Currently we need FIVE (5) Earth like planets, in our current state.
The consequences of the anti-nuclear propaganda has been disastrous. It made Europe reliant on Russian energy, which is probably why Russia just got a finger-wagging for invading Crimea and Donbas, which in turn resulted in an all-out war for the remainder of Ukraine. And now we're burning coal instead of getting clean and extremely efficient nuclear energy.
Who do you think pays for the anti-nuclear propaganda. People are dumb.
While solar and wind doesn't do anything half the time and energy storage is too expensive to ever realize. The green party is causing what they meant to prevent
On that front France has made a lot wiser decision!
Sigh
There is no all-out war for the whole of Ukraine... only the contested regions that comprised Yanukovich's political power base. Residents in these parts never wanted to be forced to choose between the EU, NATO or Russia in the first place.
But once their hand was forced by NATO, they overwhelmingly prefer Russia. But they REALLY wanted strategic ambiguity and the ability to trade with both the EU and their Russian cousins/neighbors alike.
"graves dug up"...
I bet that didn't turn out well.
Can't shut down those coal mines or any of the petroleum producing sites just yet. Where would they get all the energy and chemicals needed to build solar panels and wind turbines. They're roughly 96% petroleum based products.
Maybe they shouldn't have been so dependant on Russian gas and they shouldn't have closed their nuclear facilities.
It's simple. They print money and buy solar cells from China. Problem solved.
I would argue, that the solar panels, wind turbines and the batteries they use to store energy is worse for the environment than oil and gas. How many minerals have to be dug up to build, maintain, store and dispose of after use? Are these minerals more abundant and less environmentally destructive to mine? Germany has proven, the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine all day long.
We were at over 50% renewables for German electricity in 2023, with natural gas and coal down to a total of about 40%, and we are aiming for totally getting rid of coal powered plants by 2038.
@@kevindevlieger300 gas only accounted for about 15% of our electricity in 2023, and one of the disadvantages of nuclear plants is that they are not very flexible. So you need to compensate for that with much more flexible plants, which in most cases means: natural gas.
So no, keeping our nuclear plants running longer would not have changed the gas situation.
The actual problem with gas was rather that half of our residential heating relies on natural gas.
"Why Germany Dug and Keeps Digging the Largest Hole in Europe"
As a German I can tell you that you don't get a say in what your country does. Same as everywhere else. How you feel about a topic is irrelevant. Basically everyone hates Daylight Saving Time and it still happens twice a year. So if you like or hate coal mining, nuclear power or whatever, it really does not matter. But you get to vote every few years to make you feel better without changing the Status Quo.
If the vote doesn't change, nor does the result.
Seperti negara komunis Korea utara 😮😮😮
I don't disagree but someone decided to put up inefficient expensive wind turbines and solar panels and close the nuclear plants at the average German citizens expense.
@@25Soupy Thats the point.....
Do Germans prefer Daylight Saving Time or Daylight Standard Time, year-round?
I respect your request and enjoy a morning coffee with ya. Thanks for the information
"And I'll probably drink less coffee." THE HORROR!
Germany stopped digging black coal cause it wasn't profitable at all. The phase out took more than 50 years.
Yes, because natural gas from Russia was much cheaper and more environmentally friendly.
@@25Soupy no, originally because imported back coal was less expensive. The amount of electricity produced from natural gas has not changed much over the decades.
The phase out only took so long as local black coal mines still got subsidized to not kill that local historic industry immediately (the "Kohlepfennding" was added to the price of electricity for that).
Lignite was still competitive as it is found near the surface, while German black coal mines had gone up to one kilometer deep over time
Now we are trying to phase out lignite next, aiming for 2038, while renewables are still on the incline, already providing more than half of our electricity.
Natural gas plants will still be around for a while as they are the most flexible way to quickly adjust supply along with demand, until we finally get better storage options.
We have a few pumped storage hydro power stations, but the potential for those has long been maxed out.
Oh, and gas plants were needed for pretty much the same reason even back when about 30% of our electricity was from nuclear pants.
The coal is crap too. It has low btu’s and only saving grace is it’s easy to get. It takes three times that coal to put out the same heat as top grade coal.
But when what is left of that domestic top grade coal is now up to a kilometer deep the choice which to phase out first was simple
what do they do with the coal ash? in the US we have tons of abandoned all Ash dump. there is literally no long-term planning of what to do with this toxic ash
The hole is big enough to dump it there. Everything that is contained in the ashes are also contained in the coal.
In the UK they make building blocks so no waste the blocks are good quality.
I looked it up now. The very fine ashes are used in road construction and added in concrete and cement products.
I used to live in a place in Scotland called Coalburn.. named so because of the coal mines..it being open coal mines .. was devastating to the surrounding area as you can guess..but when it was exhausted and they refurbished the land..25 yrs later it’s still open and practically of all shrubbery or plants. It’s covered in marsh grass. It’ll never be the same.
When it comes to CO2 emissions the more carbon your fuel has the higher the CO2 emission per kilojoule freed. It's as simple as that. For that reason lignite isn't the worst polluter in regard to CO2 emissions. It's basically halfway between bio-fuel/peat and coal.
Let it be known that Germany is quite lacking in the sunlight department.
Please bring back the little guy at the beginning. We miss him, lol 😂 PLEASE
Steve
I love when they talk about power plants' pollution they always show the cooling towers which only release water vapor.
Its all theatre......
I live in Germany and due to all the advancements in LED technology,I only spend about 50 € a month on electricity. My usage is never higher than 130kw
Fact free but funny.
14:35 I don't understand why nobody bothers to develop geothermal power plants which can be built in areas where the heat is just wasted to space near volcanic vents mantle plumes etc (ThinkYellowstone).
Why do we see so many dams but not water wheels or tidal generation which can be done when the tides coming in or going out through any pinch point or even wave energy by building special buoys which uses the energy to directly turn a generator as the ocean has a ridiculous amount of energy in it.
Granted this causes problems on a widespread grid but could easily do a big part of the immediate areas energy production doing a single home on a much smaller scale which eliminates the need for transmission over long distances which is what most of the energy produced actually does...
To get the much smaller percent to where it's going to be used
If you are going to dig a hole, don't waste all the energy to fill it in, build an underground society.
We need the label "green" Energie to calm our conscious for the gigantic LED screens on our streets, in Malls, at the bakery, the three in our homes, pharmacies. For all the useful now electrified gadgets we didn't know to be in need, to put a light in every imaginable corner of our surroundings cause we adults are now strangely in fear of the dark and to be able to listen unavoidable any annoying commercial jingle in the last corner of a parking lot.
Im from Brandenburg lusatia and I can confirm hearing things about the residents that used to inhabit the old villages and many places have the neu (new in German) badge infront of them, so the original place was removed and the place basically relocated
You can make coal power cleaner.
we got ligma mining in Germany before GTA VI
So sad!
I have been @Hambacherforst we caled the Mine "Moria".
That's how brutal it seamed!
It's not hard to figure Germanies madness on shutting their energy production down,
when you realize the EU with Germany at the vanguard adopted degrowth policies several years ago. (See Dutch farmers)
We are not shutting our energy production down, we are just shifting to different sources.
You've got an amazing voice for this,
The energy crisis didn't come /appear out of nowhere, environmentalists' agendas, politics, and intervention into the internal affairs of other countries, EU Chefin acts in such a way that she thinks she owns the whole of Europe, jobless self-absorbs activists who have nothing to do except interrupting people's life, etc. are the reason and the same people complain about financial and economical problems!
the use of fossil fuel and renewable energy will coexist for a really long time in the world since there will always be people using coal as soon as it still exist
It’s crazy to me to see all that for the literal dirt here and Germany is literally destroying its towns for something that’s garbage here.
Interesting stuff. I know all about anthracite and bituminous, but I don't recall ever hearing of this ligma coal.
Lignite
whats ligma..?
@@RPSchonherr , @SulettaForgetta LIGMA? Ligma balls.
From the looks of it, they would be far better off buying higher quality U.S. coal. Lignite isn't very good compared to bituminous and anthracite.
Germany is coal user bcs nuclear power is too scary.
Compare China coal use and EU and your jaw will drop to your knees.
this is akin to saying i smoke tobacco because crystal meth is scary likt wtf
@3stesse yep. France already using nuclear energy, if something happened it might hit germany anyway. I dont get either why people dont like it. Fire existed since from the beginning of humanity and it was used to burn down towns and villages. Still fire was still used around the world o-o
@@3stesse you're stupid, nuclear energy is extremely safe
@@3stessegreat comment
You make awesome videos!
We're effed, know why??? Its people......
These tree houses have nothing to do with coalmining!
2018 was the last coal dug up. UK shut down all coal mining already in the 90th with Thatcher because coal mining was to expensive. in Germany we paid for 30 more years push down the prices to get the stuff burned. It was called "kohlepfening" and sounded less, political marketing. German coal was 5 to 10 times more expensive than imported once, due to labor cost.
these open pit mines only work because they have a conveyor directly from the pit to the powerplant, check sschwarze pumpe". Visiting one is impressive because the digger inside are 80m tall and are totally below ground level if you look inside. To do the landfill afterwards generates lake with the hope of tourism. Recently they had hughe issues because the soil does not get stable enough and some houses next to the lake in a landslide end up in a lake, bad for tourism. For sure this is the dirties way to generate electricity.
They don't want you to melt the ice walls
there is an error in your visualisation at 10:40 - here a Nuclear Plant is visualized in Austria - I can assure you - Austria is the only country with a 1:1 model of a Nuclear Plant - that never produced any Power! -> Austria decided against Nuclear after the first reactor was built
Energy is already expensive in Germany as it is. 😨
And thier politicians will talk shit about other countries, taxing thier emisions...
Well, we managed to reduce our use of coal for electricity (and that is what the lignite is almost exclusively used for) from over 45% two decades ago to just about 25% now, and plan to completely phase it out by 2038, with our share of renewable sources to generate electricity now being at over 50% and growing. I thing Germany is not doing too bad compared to other countries.
Tiny countries like Germany are the most concerned about US energy cause they're in trouble & need carbon credits to destroy larger countries economies.
Wow. The gravity point is center for flyings. A jet wings on high golden meltings. One time only please.
The CO2 reduction Germany has achieved seems impressive. There is a level of CO2 at which the environment is no longer impacted, if Germany is at such a level maybe they can be cut some slack and keep some coal usage.
Interesting channel
Yea some people are as slow as our US government
Oh, BTW :
No meter unit = no 👍
Bagger 293 is the GOAT.
Why do they show nuclear power plants when talking about coal?
No mention of the lack of clean burning Russian gas? Blowing up the pipeline cost Germany its economy as well as a relatively clean and definitely inexpensive source of energy.
The 'Fun' thing is that the very people who want solar and wind power (and wind turbines side to side everywhere) are AGAINST having powerlines (both above and below ground) anywhere near them.
Some people are never happy and always whant to do something else, no matter what it is.
thank you for talking about the issue of disposessioning and resetteling....sadly even germans tend to ignore this because there is no solution that makes you look good
but believe me when i say that nobody is used to that but protests are just ignored
its onl important to people when they are directly affected
its OK when germany uses coal but its not OK when its Poland
it's okay to be proud of your country, when it's poland, but it's not okay, when it's germany 🤷♂
And then they complain about China. Ridiculous.
There is a giant Red Elephant missing from the explanations given for the current energy problems. There was a plan to use natural gas to produce electricity, but this was somehow missed. I guess the hammer came down and buried the sickle?
Netherlands shut down big natural gas exploitation source.
There was never a plan to replace nuclear and/or coal with natural gas here in Germany. Natural gas share of our electricity production is pretty constant between 12% and 15% only, we have replaced nuclear completely, and coal by about half, with renewables since 2007.
Major users of natural gas in Germany are the industry (consuming about half of it, especially the chemical industry) at over 50%, and residential heating at about 30% (about half of residential homes are heated with natural gas here), the amount of imported gas we use to produce electricity is only about 13%.
@@hartmutholzgraefe If you consume Natural gas, that is coal not needed to burn. It does not matter the consumer.
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Al caught up on your content
Very interesting and very informative documentary commentary screen writing
Is up there with the
Mainstream media
Good job and Great content
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I don't understand how you can make these quality videos and people not always like them. These are awesome. Thank you!
Solar plus batteries is very fast. Germany needs to eliminate tariffs on solar panels and batteries
The Darlington Point Solar Farm in New South Wales produces 333 MW
It was completed in about 2.5 years.
Solar panels are ineffective in the German climate. However, if you cover half the country in panels, you might get enough electricity.
Save Nature by making Nature into the most space demanding power generation
At least you arent suggesting bird choppers...I mean wind power. They have daily crews clean up dead eagles and vultures every day.
Errrr different levels of sun in Germany and OZ
What happens to those batteries in 10 or 12 years when their life expectancy is over?
This goes with cars, laptops or any other thing that requires batteries They have a relatively short life cycle.
When we are talking about power plants a coal plant can literally run 50 or 100 years without major rebuilding other than basic maintenance.
Unfortunately for the foreseeable future all of us are going to be relying on oil and coal for at least part of our energy needs.
@@tonysymes3720 They're not!
Well they didn't want Nuclear power generation, so I guess this is the alternative to stay warm.
I love the fact that Germany is tearing down wind turbines to mine lignite. They truly are the world leaders in "Green" policy -- not!
The Germans turn out to be real Schildbürgers (Schilda citizens who lived in the town of Schilda - real simpletons) who tried to capture sunlight in sacks and transport it into the town hall they had built, forgetting to put windows in the walls. When the stored sunlight was of no use, they drilled holes in the walls and sat in the cold with their wisdom.
Dumm, wenn man seit den verlorenen Kriegen, zu seinem Schaden fremdbestimmt wird!
Danke an unsere amerikanischen Besatzerfreunde, die unsere Gasleitungen gesprengt haben und den Politikmarionetten in Berlin die Umsetzung des Morgenthau-Plans vorgegebenen haben zusätzlich zur Umsetzung von
UN-PLAN REPLACEMENT MIGRATION
KALLERGHIE-PLAN
HOOTHON-PLAN
We are planning to close down the last coal plants here in Germany by 2038, meanwhile in 2023 we already produced 27% of our electricity from wind vs. 26% still from coal.
Coal usage for electricity has gone down from about 45% to now 27% over the last two decades.
Over 50% is now from renewable sources alone.
I think we are doing relatively fine.
@@hartmutholzgraefe
Teacher: "If we breathe oxygen in the daytime, what do we breathe in the night?"
Pupil: "Nitrogen!"
--- If we use solar during daytime, what do we use in the night? - - Moonshine!
Saw that mine, but didn't knownwhat it was.
I’ll be right back. I’m out of milk for my coffee
Tough choices for sure. Perhaps the future of energy is completely decentralized power with battery storage. Homes built with solar and wind in mind from the get go, and a shift from energy black-holes like apartments to sustainable and more livable 2 storey swellings that come standard with full solar and wind gens right on site. Maintenance of all this would probably generate more jobs than coal mines with skilled trades specializing in these set-ups. Of course there is no tax to collect on power you make yourself, but that's a different problem and perhaps a quiet reason why it never seems to take off. Skip lithium for batteries to alleviate all concerns about fires and standardize NiMH batteries to 100% recyclability. Numerous job making opportunities to be explored here for tens of thousands is not hundreds of thousands of people.
they should make lake batteries like we do with snowy hydro in Australia.
Yeah that program is not progressing much, 2 years to dig a meters of tunnel.
And the proposed North Queensland project just got shut down by the newly elected Liberal government as being “ economically unviable “ whatever that means. Can’t afford the rolls Royce that would last a lifetime, so settle for a cheap car that needs to be replaced every few years, ending up costing far more then the RR
@@Robert-xs2mv Yeah that's a mega screw up ATM bad surveying of the ground. But still have the working hydro, and its smartest way to store energy without producing carbon.
@@Robert-xs2mv Our government is so stupid its its un fathomable. Couldn't agree with you more.
hopefully they will not going out of strange projects
My first tought was... hä... what did i hear, Manheim? I grow up in Manheim. And yes... the Street names are the same in Manheim new.
And their politicans talk shit about Poland using coal bc is bad for climate.
So Germany is not polluting atmosphere with these big asf coal mines?
Unlike Poland we are trying to get rid of coal powered plants by 2038. From 2007 to 2023 we have reduced the amount of coal used for electricity from 46% to just 25%.
If the US goes totally carbon pollution free I’ll then buy an electric car but not until then.
I like hybrids.
bro never heard of a wood stove
I always reapected your privacy, also always like during your coffee fill up
It's a form of Virtual Insanity
I wonder how much is true your show.
For example in Poland is just 1 nucler reactor just for technical and medical purpose. In 11:.. you show like Poland have 2 nuclear power reactor.
i think as long other industiral heavy countries like US and China dont switch to renewables. Or until its cheaper to produce heavy industry using renewables i dont think Germany stops with their coal anytime soon.
We have a planned deadline for shutting down the last coal power plant by 2028. We have already reduced the amount of coal in electricity production from about 45% to now just 25% over the last two decades. In addition to completely replace the ca. 30% of nuclear electricity we once had.
Industrial use of coal to e.g.produce steel is a different story, but for that you don't use lignite anyway.
@@hartmutholzgraefe sound all nice and well but if we check the CO2 production per KW energy produced then germany is way up there compared to any other EU country so deffinity the addiction to coal is quite noticable. I still dont understand why the nuke plants where shut down and more coal consumption replaced the nuclear consumption.
Australia has a terrible record in environmentalism, but even we have stopped mining lignite (or "brown coal" as w call it),
Good morning, Steve! Very interesting information on coal and all it affects! Thank you for sharing!
Sad that Germany closed down the last Nuclear powerplants in the entire country, could have rmovd the dependency of oil and coal
Idiots
We already have almost 60% renewable energies and now a motivation to grow that number instead on resting on nuclear waste producing, obsolete npps. Additionally, as France is showing, they are not at all economically viable, the french company powering them has 70 billion in depths, the renovation of of the 50 German npps would cost beyond 1 billion each, they're building a new one in Britain for 38 billion instead of the 21 planned.
Oil never played a big role in German electricity production, and coal has declined from about 45% 20 years ago to now "just" 25%. I might have prefered "shut down coal now, nuclear 2nd", too, maybe, but that train has long left.
The current plan is to shut down the last coal power plant by 2038.
The advantage of lignite always was that it was a domestic source, so guaranteed for some energy independence.
As renewables are also domestic resources this aspect has become less and less important over the last two decades. Domestic black coal is already history, the last underground mine has been shut down a few years ago already.
Thats not a pub un the beginning, its a chainsaw, weedwhacker,... store
Since the biden administration blew up nord stream they cant afford energy
Actually it is hard to argue against LFTR and other fast reactor technology. Gen 4 reactors are safe and don't produce the waste of old technology gen 2 reactors currently in use. Floride and sodium molten salt reactors are walk away safe. China just authorised a molten salt reactor Mostly for scientific use, and India is working on their version. British companies are working on a fast reactor that also uses molten salts instead of pressurized water reactors. Both can use current waste as fuel and are safe from Fukushima and Chernbyl type accidents.
ruZZia-driven nuclear propaganda in a lot of comments here 😖 Europe is more dependent on ruZZia for nuclear, than for anything else, even natural gas and oil! Besides nuclear being ineffective, inflexible and very expensive, the real problem was Putin's puppets preventing the growth of solar and wind energy in 2014!
Why do you keep showing nuclear water cooling towers when you’re talking about extra polluting coal?
Its almost like America blowing up the pipeline had something to d with germanys need to continue mining..
Can you drink without slurping next time?
What happened to all that green energy they were so proud of?
Small in scale, replacing gas engine with electric engine is slow but progressing, and it’s a slow cancellation of coal miners,
The same people who want 'green energy' invent fictional birds, lizards, insects and so on that never have been observed by anyone on the planet, and claim that the projects they want are endangering those imaginary animals or plants.
@@mark7s980 so.. in germany a lot of people stop wind turbines from being build bcs they dont like how it changes the view. Some worry about animals getting hurt or noise
we were originally ahead of schedule but then a certain fat spd politician of the groko with his hands deep in the coal lobby decided (by himself) to put a stop to our national expansion of solar and wind energy.
since then weve been just trailing along barely getting anything done.
without that we would have been well into our estimated 80%+ production of renewable energy by 2025 and full green energy sufficiency by 2030.
and with that germany would have been the first country in the world to run entirely on renewable energy.
but as always greedy politicians f***ed us over.
@@uteriel282 Doesn't help that Bavaria wants to be the fillet piece of Germany, and then throws a hissy fit and would like to go back to having their king back, mentality wise at least.
Coal will remain popular for at least a hundred years. Wind and solar are intermittent sources, and while grid-level batteries help stabilize the grid, you cannot run large cities exclusively on renewable power.
Yawn -
Germany has reduced coal by almost half over the last 20 years in parallel with phasing out nuclear completely, and is aiming to shut down the last coal plant by 2038.
We already now produce more electricity from wind alone then from coal
Watop used to be about animal and nature. Now days I look at watop.... All I see " USA this, USA That. This country This. This country that "
I miss old watop. Don't have to upload every 2 day. Just make videos about animal or nature again man. Or will just unsubscribe. I been watching your video when you guys had like 600k subscribers
Same
i noticed they keep reusing the same thumbnails for multiple videos. Content and quality just dropped of all of the sudden, idk why
Why is that type of coal so special?
nothing special, its just low grade coal, with big share of minerals (ash after burning) and hydrogen, suitable only for energy production, not for metallurgy. The same remnants of dinosaur time swamp plants but not fully carbonised and spoiled with ballast.
It is near the surface, so cheap to mine. Not good for anything but heating or running power plants. These days used for power plants only, the plants are near the pits and the transport is directly from the pit to the plant via conveyor belts only.
The main reason for still using it used to be that it is the only domestic carbon based source Germany has -- our black coal mines were pretty much used up, mines were dug up to a kilometer deep, and the little domestic oil and natural gas reserves we have are negligible.
But we have quite a bit of wind, and still enough sun for modern solar panels to be economical, also not as much as in more southern regions.
We now produce about 12% of our electricity from photovoltaic, 26% from wind, and another 14% from other renewable sources, increasing year after year.
@@hartmutholzgraefe oh yes, green preaches with net share of generation again and again. How much PV generation you have at 1800 right now, in November?
@antontsau solar of course only works through the lit day, but that is also where we have peak demand.
We get twice as much from wind than from solar though, plus water, bio gas, geothermal, which all do not depend on daylight.
And wind here in germany is more common in fall and winter than in summer.
@@hartmutholzgraefe Nope. In modern world peak demand is on evenings, when people come home, switch on heaters, appliances, lights, stoves, chargers for their so loud propagated EVs... Read about "duck curve" or check (we in Australia have it online in realtime) network operator reports.
Oh yes. And then SUDDENLY you get no wind evening, and cant do anything with it because you closed all controllable generation.
Give me my time back.
The core issue is not just the timeline but the lack of comprehensive policies to phase out coal alongside nuclear energy. Over the last 20 years, Germany has had ample opportunity to accelerate its transition to renewables, implement stricter coal reduction targets, and invest in energy storage and grid modernization. The reality that “Germany might have done something but has not” underscores the need for more robust accountability and urgency, particularly given the climate crisis.
Lignite is really poor quality coal. Very low BTU content, it is the worst polluting coal
Where's your change at metric ton of CO2 to metric tons per square kilometer I bet that chart increases tenfold and Germany being the smallest landmass per amount of low energy cold burned is probably at the top of the list
I don't care about the anti-nuclear whining. At root, an energy grid requires a simple power source that can be counted on to run 24/7 as needed. Nuclear is the only zero carbon way to generate that power in mass at this point in most places.
If you are anti-nuclear power, you are pro-fossil fuel.
Nuclear plant is safe as long regurgitate is serious enough. Like come on not same as nuke bombs.
@@danabell2709 yep. I was asked years ago 7-10 y ago when I was in school, if I was also a trump support bcs I vote for nuclear. She didnt mean to but that insulted me bcs theres absolut nothing wrong about nuclear power.
Edit: Im NOT a trump supporter... o-o
Europe doesnt like trump, I think.. .
Im german btw.
When nuclear plants were built they thought we would have a solution for their waste by now.
The worst disasters to the environment historically have been nuclear meltdowns. Very hypocritical and hysterically funny to me that so called greenies now want nuclear over fossil fuels. Btw, solar is also carbon free.
All the arguments vs nuclear energy I've ever heard all seem very very weak.