Caballero,
once again, do not fall into this trap.
If we need destroy a wonderful forest to install wind turbines, I think that we are doing something wrong.
That is absolutely right and I am with you on that.
It is true, I would not like to have a nuclear power plant next to my house, but that does not mean that they are not necessary.
Really? Please do not forget that there is always a military component behind the nuclear energy. The high proportion in France is mainly for maintaining the force de frappe. To be honest, reactors such as Cattenom are not exactly brilliant.
Fortunately, the crap reactor Fessenheim went off the grid in 2020. This may have saved us a lot of trouble.
Renewable energies have their great shortcomings ...
Yes, but only in the brain damaged form in which they are now applied. You can't get out of nuclear power - like Germany - and shut down conventional thermal power plants at the same time.
Wind energy is not baseload capable. But it's good to use for peak load. Right now, operators of existing wind turbines cannot feed into the grid when they could offer energy. The wheels then
rotate freely. Solar panel operators face similar problems. Electrical energy is difficult to store.
But how about this? Suppose you have an old abandoned mine. There is a height difference of several hundred meters (or yards, if you prefer that). If the wind is blowing properly or the sun is
shining and it is not possible to feed into the grid, you can pump water from the bottom to the top with this energy (at zero cost). You can then allow to flow off that water, if it is urgently required
and use it to operate a water turbine. This is how a pumped storage plant works. Completely without emissions and radioactive waste. But this requires political will and a well thought-out concept.
I calculated the generator for the
Markersbach pumped storage plant at that time. It has been working reliably since 1979.
How many closed mines do you think there are in Germany? Sometimes it's good to think a little.
I hope that my arguments have made you think. Unlike others, I am not ideologically blinded and can already see the problems realistically.