Und nichts davon wurde in direkte Verbindung zu den Fragen gebracht. Es waren einfach nur rants. Sie hat ja nicht mal direkt gesagt, dass Atomkraft die Strompreise senken würde. Nur: Energiepreise zu hoch und Atomkraft gut. Völlig verrückt.
Mega gut fand' ich auch: Bildung in Deutschland scheiße, Anschluss verloren, Brain Drain. Bürgergeld = Fachkräftemangel... Also.... Wir bringen die schlecht ausgebildeten, aktuellen Fachrkäfte in den Beruf mit Senkung des Bürgergeldes? Weil die alle Bürgergeld beziehen oder irgendwie sowas? Und die, die abgewandert sind locken wir damit wieder an, dass wir die Sozialleistungen kürzen?
I have no idea and coal sucks and is the result of intense lobbying and corrupt politicians being bought for pennies on the dollar for the last 25 years.
The point isn't the water usage of nuclear power, since most of it is evaporated and returned to the cycle, so I'd be surprised if it's worse than coal in terms of actual consumption. However you need water in large quantities and the correct temperatures to be able to use it for cooling on nuclear.
If there is no water or not enough water of sufficient temperatures, then you can't cool the plant. It's simple as that.
Droughts overall are horrible for Europe just as much as anywhere else. We're losing tons of valuable topsoil, forrests are dying contributing to the continual errosion. All this could lead to salination and eventual death of farmland. Crop yields are unpredictable. No country on this planet can exist for any prolonged period of time with droughts, unless it can import everything it can't produce itself from elsewhere.
Water usage is generally a huge issue in Germany. Farmers take out far, far more than they're allotted already and there's almost no oversight. Large cities like Frankfurt am Main are pulling in water from surrounding areas, leaving them dry. And this isn't even touching on the basically free use of water for our industries at large. It's a really bad situation.
The only point where renewables would "rely" on water beyond their construction processes is either water generated power itself or energy storage (which comes down to the same).
All this debate and nobody brings up that, thanks to climate change, cooling nuclear power plants will become a roll of the dice? Same as it already happened in France?
Droughts are really, really bad for nuclear power. Solar and wind don't give a shit.
Doesn't even matter much which technology is better on any other point. If you cannot run it, it's worthless. Especially at times with increased power demand for example due to AC usage spiking thanks to the same heat that just poofed your cooling solution into oblivion.
I'm one of the new folk around here as well and I can fully understand that kind of feeling once it feels like the flood gates have opened and your small community ain't so small no more and people bring different vibes than what you're used to / what you enjoy.
They have been an issue for a long time. But COVID really gave a boost to these schools of thought and those that opposed COVID quickly found themselves on networks and pages that were and are spreading right wing and Russian propaganda. It is a huge mess and truly arrived in the middle of society. I have people at work in high positions getting ready to fight some boogyman government overreach that was supposed to happen with COVID, but didn't happen. Now it is supposed to happen as part of climate change policies... for a while I have kept the official information on what to do if you encounter a Reichsbürger by our BND at hand. It is ridiculous.
If Larian simply releases an honest to god Addon to BG3 like they used to be in the early 2000s, they're going to break the internet, I think. A complete game that is good with a complete addon that is good... Kinda like Witcher 3 with Blood and Wine, etc.