<story><title>Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2035</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/germany-aims-get-100-energy-renewable-sources-by-2035-2022-02-28/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>s_dev</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ve all raised our concerns about the opinions of Germans before on these threads. A brilliant scientific nation that seems to have become recently confused. Sort of like the British.&lt;p&gt;Green Gas? Nuclear is bad because it produces waste despite that waste often being the size of a can of coke after a year of service? Buying Russian gas is actually making Russia more democratic and drawing it in to the West?&lt;p&gt;The past week will have a lot of Germans revising many silly opinions they were originally able to afford but not anymore -- so I&amp;#x27;m going to wait for that tide of opinion change rather than try to persuade anymore. Being naive sometimes is a luxury some can simply afford while others can&amp;#x27;t afford it. Climate change is happening and it&amp;#x27;s not going to wait for Germany, Russia has always been like Russia -- corrupt and unreliable. Amazing that Germany have considered the US a poor partner under Trump but a reliable one with Russia&amp;#x2F;Putin. France seems have better answers on how to solve energy problems than Germany.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>V1ndaar</author><text>&amp;gt; The past week will have a lot of Germans revising many silly opinions they were originally able to afford but not anymore&lt;p&gt;Honestly, as a German myself I&amp;#x27;m rather doubtful of that unfortunately. Some? Maybe. Many? Probably not. I cannot even convince my parents (who grew up in Germany during the time when the anti nuclear sentiment really started) to rethink their anti nuclear stance (despite having a great relationship with them). I say that as a physicist that absolutely sees there are flaws with aging nuclear plants.&lt;p&gt;But people who are not able to a) appreciate the energy density of nuclear and b) see that climate change is an &lt;i&gt;urgent problem&lt;/i&gt; we face, whereas any issues from nuclear waste are &lt;i&gt;long term problems&lt;/i&gt; (not even talking about future reactor technologies etc. etc.) is just... I don&amp;#x27;t know? It sounds insane, but indoctrinated? I just utterly fail to understand.&lt;p&gt;I mean, what&amp;#x27;s the point of a &amp;quot;nuclear waste free Earth&amp;quot; if our civilization collapses due to climate change?</text></comment>
<story><title>Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2035</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/germany-aims-get-100-energy-renewable-sources-by-2035-2022-02-28/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>s_dev</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ve all raised our concerns about the opinions of Germans before on these threads. A brilliant scientific nation that seems to have become recently confused. Sort of like the British.&lt;p&gt;Green Gas? Nuclear is bad because it produces waste despite that waste often being the size of a can of coke after a year of service? Buying Russian gas is actually making Russia more democratic and drawing it in to the West?&lt;p&gt;The past week will have a lot of Germans revising many silly opinions they were originally able to afford but not anymore -- so I&amp;#x27;m going to wait for that tide of opinion change rather than try to persuade anymore. Being naive sometimes is a luxury some can simply afford while others can&amp;#x27;t afford it. Climate change is happening and it&amp;#x27;s not going to wait for Germany, Russia has always been like Russia -- corrupt and unreliable. Amazing that Germany have considered the US a poor partner under Trump but a reliable one with Russia&amp;#x2F;Putin. France seems have better answers on how to solve energy problems than Germany.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ph_</author><text>France doesn&amp;#x27;t have any good answer on how to solve energy problems. Yes, they currently have a large amount of nuclear reactors - probably the most nuclear industry nation on the planet. However, most of them are aging and so far they fail to build new plants at a rate to sustain their production long term. They have 1 in construction, much delayed and with huge cost overruns. Even if they build another 10 that only delays the switch, they would have to replace 50 nuclear power plants. Their nuclear future so far depends on prolonging the run times of the existing plants.</text></comment>