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| 'Germany Solar and Wind is Triple the Cost of France's Nuclear and Will Last Half as Long |
| 2019-11-12 |
| h/t Instapundit [NextBigFuture] France’s nuclear energy spending was 60% of what Germany spent on renewables. France gets about 400 Terawatt hour per year from nuclear but Germany gets 226 Terawatt-hours each year. 45 Terawatt-hours of Germany’s renewable power comes from burning biomass which generates air pollution. Germany’s solar farms will have to be rebuilt every 15-25 years. The wind farms will need to be rebuilt every 20-25 years. Nuclear plants can last 40-80+ years. This means that it guaranteed that the solar and wind farms will have to be rebuilt in 15-25 years. The maintenance costs will increase as wind turbines or solar panels are replaced. The old turbines and solar panels will need to be replaced. France completed construction on 76% of its current 58 reactors at an inflation-adjusted cost of $330 billion (€290 billion). The complete buildout of the 58 reactors was less €400 billion. Germany has spent about €500 billion over the last 20 years to get to 35% renewables. 7% of this is burning biomass. France gets almost double the TWh from nuclear than Germany gets from renewables (solar, wind, biomass, hydro). France has gotten about 400 TWh per year from nuclear while all of Germany’s renewables (solar, wind and biomass) amounts to about 220 TWh. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Going to predict that by the time the Cherman solar and wind infrastructure needs refreshed, there will not even be funds to decommission and safely remove the worn out stuff. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-11-12 10:20 |
| #1 France has better technology than Germany? Donnerwetter! |
| Posted by: Warthog 2019-11-12 10:13 |