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Germany begins dismantling wind farm for coal (euobserver.com)

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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?

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[–] DrM@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be completely honest (and I am a huge anti-coal-mining dude), currently I'm happy that we still have the coalmines running. It would not have been possible to build solar and wind power fast enough to compensate for the coalmines, the only feasible alternative would have been gas and that comes from russia

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe nuclear could've been better than coal?

[–] DrM@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

There are a lot of things which in hindsight were better than coal. But when the decision was made to dig where the wind farm is, there wouldn't have been any time to build a nuclear power plant anymore

[–] luk3th3dud3@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Correct. You can add the vastly underestimated methane emissions of natural gas to that. (They are hard to measure but nobody seems toooo interested)