| ▲ | mtoner23 4 hours ago |
| Hopefully Germany doesn't ban geothermal like they did with nuclear and fracking |
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| ▲ | skimmed 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Putting nuclear and fracking on the same level is wild. |
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| ▲ | rob74 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Why? Nuclear has extremely serious, but very rare accidents, while fracking has less serious (as in, fewer people affected) accidents more frequently. I would say if you even it out, they're comparable... | |
| ▲ | Kichererbsen 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Putting nuclear and fracking next to each other is also wild. Geographically. | | |
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| ▲ | xutopia 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Please refrain from putting these 2 in the same bucket. Fracking does lots of localized and non-local pollution. Nuclear is contained and way safer for humans. |
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| ▲ | rightbyte 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Nuclear is contained and way safer for humans. One could argue it is nominally safe. | |
| ▲ | Hackbraten 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Nuclear is contained Except when it de-contains itself. | | |
| ▲ | atmosx an hour ago | parent [-] | | I would put all the “nuke is safe” ppl in an island alongside the reactor and go back every 100 years to check if they went Atlantis or not yet… I get that it’s a a form of clean energy and we kind of need that in the EU but a remote, “protected”, isolated location would be my first choice. |
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| ▲ | dyauspitr 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Fracking is not like nuclear |
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| ▲ | nkmnz 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | But they were cancelled for similar reasons based on fears fueled by Russian propaganda. | | |
| ▲ | maxhille 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | So the Fukushima disaster and US polluted ground water are Russian propaganda for you? | | |
| ▲ | Saline9515 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Cumulative radioactivity emitted by German coal as a result of the ban on nuclear is likely higher than the amount of radioactivity spread by the Fukushima disaster. We can also add lung issues and other pollution of the environment caused by soot. | | |
| ▲ | pydry 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Just 6.5% of German electricity was generated through coal last year. By contrast Poland was ~90% for years and only just slipped below 50%. If I had to guess why Poland never got any criticism for that while Germany was routinely pilloried by certain flavors of propaganda I would hypothesize that it was because Poland weren't humiliating the nuclear industry by swapping them with solar panels and wind turbines at 1/5th the price. |
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| ▲ | archonis 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The inherrent dangers of nuclear energy stem from flawed actors admimistrating something which carries manageable and often avoidable risks. Fracking as a process carries inherrent unavoidable risk. | |
| ▲ | toasty228 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > the Fukushima disaster Germany doesn't experience magnitude 7+ earthquakes on the regular... or at all for that matter. It 100% is manufactured fears |
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| ▲ | Gualdrapo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That still doesn't make them comparable |
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| ▲ | xeonmc 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| technically speaking, geothermal is in a way also a form of nuclear energy. |
