Aye, I agree. And given the fit-for-55 directive, that push will continue, further reducing the economic viability of nuclear. Nuclear is dead.
However, regardless of the state of nuclear in Europe, the big problem is that Germany does not produce enough energy, which spikes the energy prices in neighbouring countries. Here, electricity suddenly becomes 8 times more costly when Germany imports electricity. That is something Germany needs to address or face constant demands of building nuclear.
Well, to be frank, Sweden is Europes second largest, or largest depending on the state of things in France, electricity exporter in Europe. Sweden do not necessarily need more large scale electricity production. Specially not given the drive towards micro production that is now ongoing.
The only reason to build large scale is to accommodate AI or some other extremely energy dependant technology. They can happily build and run their own electricity network and not include the ordinary consumers, nor the taxpayers.
This time, it seems, they found the golden nugget despite being blind.
It looks great! Very well done!
Better make sure to spell that right😁
Only in a world where you screw over your allies...
Didn't somebody float the idea of making musk speaker of the house?
Ugh... I got to try those buttons the other day. Might work in an intersection. Horrible in a roundabout!!! No wonder nobody use them!
It's because BMW doesn't top up the indicator fluid as standard during service.
Yeah, because "dump-it-and-forgett-it" hasn't come back to haunt us in the past? We've got everything from toxic waste to old ammo and nuclear waste that are ticking time bombs we don't know how to handle as is. But sure! Let's add another one to the list!
The oceans are enormous, but so is the rest of the world. Didn't stop us from affecting most of it. As you say, the ocean may be big enough to handle some, but we can't afford to dump it all in the ocean. The waste will not build up to a hill, it will in a very short time build up to a mountain.
Inert in human time scales at least. What I'm getting at, is the sheer volume we have to deal with and that in and of itself is a problem.
If we are pumping up 100 million barrels of oil per day, Thats 16 000 million liters, or 16 million cubic meters. An ordinary house in these parts is about 40 cubic meters. So, 400 000 houses per day is added to the problem and the scale of what needs to be taken care of.
If we were to dump 400 000 houses worth of sand or other inert material onto any single plot of the seabed that part of seabed is dead. There are no two ways about it.
So you want Sweden to suboptimize it's energy grid so that Germany doesn't have to take responsibility for their own electricity needs? It's not the solution to this problem.
And, as others are saying: there are other projects in the north of Sweden aiming to use that energy.