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Germany begins dismantling wind farm for coal (euobserver.com)

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German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Cmon Germany I wanna root for you so bad because of your pro-consumer laws but blunders like this and the nuke plants keep making it so damn hard.

[–] schulzi@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Bro, the last 3 nuclear power plant in Germany have already been shut down in April... You been to France yet?

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