With climate change looming, it seems so completely backwards to go back to using it again.

Is it coal miners pushing to keep their jobs? Fear of nuclear power? Is purely politically motivated, or are there genuinely people who believe coal is clean?

Edit, I will admit I was ignorant to the usage of coal nowadays.

Now I’m more depressed than when I posted this

  • luk3th3dud3@feddit.de
    92·
    1 year ago

    Germany has not build any new coal plants. At least not in the last five years.

    Edit: Why are people down voting a factual statement? Go ahead and provide better info if you got it.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      32·
      1 year ago

      If hasn’t constructed any new ones, but it has reactivated plants that were previously shut down. I suppose that means you’re right, but it also means the coal plants that have been activated are using older environmental norms, so I’m not sure if that’s an improvement.

      • luk3th3dud3@feddit.de
        61·
        1 year ago

        Hmm I think what you mean is that some coal plants have been put into active maintenance. IIRC this was rather a countermeasure in case of absence of gas supplies. They are not part of the regular energy market.

        Anyway, I think there is not only one way forward. Countries like France choose to use a big portion of nuclear, Germany does not. And every way has its own challenges. What is important is that energy supply should be independent of oppressor states and moving into a direction of carbon neutrality.