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Germany's Water Consumption Down 17% Following Nuclear Reactor Shutdowns (www.vdi-nachrichten.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Another W from getting rid of this shitty, overcomplicated, tax sucking, maintainance nightmare of a technology.

[–] horse_battery_staple 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do Coal and Natural Gas next.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it was such a great move to first switch to fossil fuels and then have the gas line that gives you cheap gas blow up.

[–] Womble 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think it has more to do with the 15% downturn in German industrial output over the same timespan due to the reliance on Russian gas now having to be replaced with LNG.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wrong. 2.02 billion m³ of the total 2.56 billion m³ reduction came from just nuclear powerplants. The rest of the energy sector still uses 6.59 billion m³ but considering there were barely any reactors still running in 2019 this is a massive reduction from just turning off those few reactors.

[–] Womble 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ok, but thats becuase Germany is producing and using less energy, by about 15%. So it is hardly surprising that the water used in the energy sector is down by a similar amount. X happened and afterwards Y happened does not mean X is the cause of Y.

[–] horse_battery_staple 1 points 1 day ago

Not very soviet of you Womble to point out the circular logic in propaganda talking points.

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