Germany's Nuclear Phase Out Delayed its Coal Exit by 8 Years
Graph of the Week #4
This year, German will shutter is last operating nuclear power plants.. The current coalition government has targeted 2030 for exiting coal consumption. The graph above, using data from BP, shows that peak nuclear power consumption in Germany (in 2001) was just about the same as remaining coal generation in 2020. What this means is that had Germany kept its nuclear plants running at 2001 levels, its coal exit could have occurred in 2022, rather than 2030.
Greenie fanatics opposed nuclear power technologies long before the CO2 hysteria went into hyperdrive. Climate Change is just a pretext for a nasty, neo-Malthusian agenda of massive depopulation and deindustrialization. That agenda may prevail in the West, but the Chinese are building 440 new coal units over the next four years and then ramping up the construction of at least 150 nuclear reactors. While the West reverts to A New Dark Ages feudalism, the Asians, led by China will dominate the global economy and advanced high tech for the rest of the century and beyond.
There is no concrete plan to exit coal in 2030. The current plan is for 2038, which may be moved up to 2035. This means that nuclear phase-out delayed coal exit by 13-16 years