Denmark is reconsidering its 40-year ban on nuclear power in a major policy shift for the renewables-heavy country.
The Danish government will analyse the potential benefits of a new generation of nuclear power technologies after banning traditional nuclear reactors in 1985, its energy minister said.
The Scandinavian country is one of Europe’s most renewables-rich energy markets and home to Ørsted, the world’s biggest offshore wind company. More than 80% of its electricity is generated from renewables, including wind, biofuels and solar, according to the International Energy Agency.
I wonder how much wind, solar and energy storage you could build with all that money
Money isn’t the issue.
Nimby’ism is preventing the expansion of solar and wind. Nimby’ism will also prevent the building of a large nuclear plant.
I hope the change of law will enable more research on modern nuclear power.
It’s not NIMBY’s it’s oil. Look at The Simpsons, who’s the evil billionaire polluting the planet? Mr. Burns. The Simpsons airs on FOX, once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Even though nuclear power has killed less people than every other form of energy production. They’ve been trying to repressing and demonising this technology for the last 70 years. Coal Fire power plants release more radiation into the atmosphere in a single Day then a nuclear reactor will in its entire existence. Coal Fire power plants kill 1,000,000 people a year. We’ve had this technology for 70 years that’s 70 million people that’s more people than dies in World War II and we’re not allowed to even talk about it. Traditional lightwater reactors where enriched uranium rods are water cooled were designed for nuclear submarines. They were never supposed to upscaled to this degree. But the US cut funding to the Oakridge nuclear project because of pressure from the fossil fuel industry. This subliminal messaging, showing nuclear waste as glowing green goo is in everything. Video games, comic books, movies, it’s everywhere. They don’t want the public to be aware of the safety and energy benefits. These new Thorium salt reactors produce less than 1/1000 the waste of lightwater reactors and they can even burn waste rods from traditional lightwater reactors. That’s what the far-right is for to suppress the green revolution because that would mean the end of fossil fuels grip over the destiny of our planet. These people know global warming is real, fuck, trump just built seawalls around his golf course. This is why he’s threatening Greenland because war would mobilise NATO troops, removing support from Ukraine and give them an excuse to bomb the fuck out of Copenhagen to ensure the company working to produce finish their first prototype reactor would disappear. This is why Rogan and Jordan Peterson and all those dickheads support war and push climate denial.
Sure thing. This post is about Denmark though, where the nuclear power has been banned by hippies in the 80s, and the same old idiots now decline expanding solar power because they prefer to look at fields of manure instead of solar panels.
It’s not either-or. Money that aren’t spend on nuclear will be mostly spent on burning fossil fuels, because that’s the niche they occupy together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcoN2bdACGA Please watch this. This is Why Trump is threatening Greenland. This Technology would be the END of for profit energy production. That’s where all the far-right bullshit has come from, that’s why Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan are all pushing climate denial. War is the only way fossi fuels remain in demand because there are no electric tanks!