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Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him

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542 points xbmcuser | 3 comments | 27 Aug 25 06:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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qwertox ◴[27 Aug 25 10:51 UTC] No.45037882[source]▶
A country can commit to 300 years of wind energy, temporarily harming a bit of nature.

Once a better solution has been found, the land can be freed for the nature to take over again.

We have no issues with stealing a couple of square miles of nature in order to pave it for our cities or to use it for farming.

Once you remove the wind turbines, the harm you've done to the nature was minimal: production of the turbines, used area and generated noise, minimal pollution of the area, the troubles of recycling them. That's mostly it.

You don't have this with oil, nor with current-age nuclear.

Also, we've already accepted the noise of cars, trucks, motorcycles and planes.

So I really don't get what they are protesting about, specially in Germany.

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1. Moldoteck ◴[27 Aug 25 11:10 UTC] No.45038007[source]▶
Isn't the idea of npp decommissioning to leave the area as it was before npp? Environmental impact of different techs was described in UNECE report I think
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2. ACCount37 ◴[27 Aug 25 11:24 UTC] No.45038119[source]▶
Uneconomical. The best way to dispose of things like the weakly radioactive reactor hulls is often to simply leave them when they are.

They aren't particularly dangerous, and they don't leach contaminants. So you just bury them so no one can access them too easily. But it does require leaving the sealed reactor buildings in place - even if you can reuse the rest of the land and the exclusion area.

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3. Moldoteck ◴[27 Aug 25 11:34 UTC] No.45038222[source]▶
I think it's still done as full dismantling (but maybe not all countries?). French superphenix will be basically erased. Something similar is happening to german plants like Isar 2

Some countries may have postponed decommissioning because it's cheaper to wait a bit Some countries allow recycling of some stuff, even concrete, like Italy