<story><title>Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-14/germany-is-burning-too-much-coal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graeme</author><text>I have never understood why people fear nuclear &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; don’t seem to fear carbon as giscerally or more.&lt;p&gt;I can understand that nuclear has risks. But people seem to evaluate nuclear in a vacuum, rather than against the carbon sources which currently replace it.&lt;p&gt;“What do we do with the waste” is a better question when applied to coal.</text></item><item><author>pm90</author><text>The emergency move away from nuclear has been incredibly short sighted. I understand not wanting to build new reactors, but shutting down running reactors, with all the capital investment involved, just doesn&amp;#x27;t make any sense. Especially when there is little risk of natural disasters in Germany.&lt;p&gt;If people are serious about maintaining the same quality of lifestyle that we have today without burning as much coal, the current solution is Nuclear Energy. Yes it does pose many risks but so does burning coal, and the latter seems to be destroying our environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pizzapill</author><text>The fear of nuclear power in Germany comes from the Tschernobyl disaster 1986. A life changing event for many Germans. Not beeing able to leave the house. Cutting a lot of foods from your diet because they are contaminated for decades (mushrooms, game meat, berries etc.).&lt;p&gt;East block countries trying to sell their contaminated food for consumption and it ending up in GDR school kitchens.&lt;p&gt;Additionally having two superpowers stationing a huge arsenal of nuclear bombs in your country. While at the same time beeing sure that you&amp;#x27;d die first in a new world war that would almost surely start in your country and would probably devastate your whole continent beyond beeing suited for human surival.&lt;p&gt;Then the whole argument that its cleaner and cheaper energy. While you pay for transport, storage and security with your tax money and the company keeps the profits. By storage i mean temporar storage, because no one worldwide has figured out how to safely store the waste for hundreds of thousands of years (Pyramids are 4500 years old and we don&amp;#x27;t even know how they are build). Thats why most of this waste from the 80s and 90s lies a few km off our coasts in the sea where the UK, Russia and Italian mafia dumped it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-14/germany-is-burning-too-much-coal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graeme</author><text>I have never understood why people fear nuclear &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; don’t seem to fear carbon as giscerally or more.&lt;p&gt;I can understand that nuclear has risks. But people seem to evaluate nuclear in a vacuum, rather than against the carbon sources which currently replace it.&lt;p&gt;“What do we do with the waste” is a better question when applied to coal.</text></item><item><author>pm90</author><text>The emergency move away from nuclear has been incredibly short sighted. I understand not wanting to build new reactors, but shutting down running reactors, with all the capital investment involved, just doesn&amp;#x27;t make any sense. Especially when there is little risk of natural disasters in Germany.&lt;p&gt;If people are serious about maintaining the same quality of lifestyle that we have today without burning as much coal, the current solution is Nuclear Energy. Yes it does pose many risks but so does burning coal, and the latter seems to be destroying our environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saas_co_de</author><text>&amp;quot;Fine particles from coal power plants kill an estimated 13,200 people each year in the US alone&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newscientist.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;mg20928053.600-fossil-fuels-are-far-deadlier-than-nuclear-power&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newscientist.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;mg20928053.600-fossil-f...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The death toll from coal is staggering compared to nuclear. It is not even close.</text></comment>