The German model is based on
artificially high tarrifs for renewable subsidies and a desire to remove Nuclear from their network. As an outsider I wonder how much the US public would accept such market manipulation to finance such things.
The government in Germany has been making noises about extending the life of nuclear plants by 8-10 years to maintain capacity and cost competiveness of power to industry. If that happens the renewables market will decline and the growth may stop, solar investment is declining already.
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Originally Posted by Piwoslaw
IMO, humanity should pay more attention to wasting less and improving the efficiency of existing power plants...
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The key here is reducing what we use domestically - there is a hell of a lot of waste there which costs us all cash, which is what Frank said about 2 pages ago
I just don't see nuclear as a desirable or evil demon, just something we have to live with maybe for now maybe for longer.