German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

  • Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    22
    10 months ago

    They dismantled their nuclear plants because of nothing but a populace wide misunderstanding of how nuclear power works. They then, like very very smart people, came up with no alternative power sources, so the coal barons made their grand return!

    Germany has been on a spiral downward.

    • flan [they/them]
      hexbear
      19
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      but they have all those doctors that insist on you knowing and acknolwedging that they're a doctor.