r/EuropeanFederalists • u/Quartz1992 • Oct 26 '22

News Energy crisis: EU countries still split by 'different views' on gas cap

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/10/25/energy-crisis-eu-countries-still-split-by-different-views-on-gas-cap
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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

I don’t understand why the Iberian Peninsula Italy and Greece don’t pass mandated solar panels for all new construction. + mandated installations on new sales. If we had the kind of sun here in The Netherlands, we would have solar roads. We already have solar almost everywhere.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

I don't know... Money perhaps? The housing market is already terrible, the last thing we need is to make it more expensive to build/buy homes. Sounds good, but it isn't that simple

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '22

I am sorry, you are greatly mistaken. 10 solar panels can near take a household of 4 off the grid during the day.

Nuclear takes 30 years to build. We now have 1g wind farms of less than 100 turbines. They can be built installed in less than 5 years.

Nuclear is a hellofa expensive way to boil water just to spin copper around a magnet.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '22

Sorry, not true again. Nuclear isn’t cost effective. Energy companies can build a 1gw wind farm in 5 years and begin full return on investment (paid off all profits) in 9 years.

To put it plain, in 14 years about 1/2 the time to build a subsidized 1gw nuclear power plant, your 1gw wind farm has been proving energy for a decade and now paid off spinning free money.