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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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[–] bigkix@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When you shut down nuclear and start relying more on renewables (which are costly and suck) you end up using more coal. Green politics, FTW!

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You fell for misinformation.

This is a small site. The owner of the wind turbines had to phase them out due to them being at the end of their lifespan. As there is coal under them. A deal was stipulated a VERY long time ago where when the wind turbines would have had to be removed, an expansion of a coal mine would be built there at the agreement that it will be dismantled by 2030. We are talking about "multiple years" time ago, before the 2030 deadline.

[–] bigkix@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I commented more on general production of energy in Germany... They did in fact recently shut down nuclear plants and upped coal energy production.

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

upped coal energy production

In fact thats simply not true

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