kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: Funny article found accidentally on #Greenpeace website: in 2014 their German section ...
Funny article found accidentally on #Greenpeace website: in 2014 their German section complained about the unwillingness of the companies operating #nuclear power plants to take on the costs of dismantling the plants after their phase-out (which, as we know today, was the dumbest possible idea in the first place as it forced Germany into coal and gas).
The whole argument was built on top of the logic that the companies operating these plants made “billions” on nuclear power and the author even called the plants “money-making machines” several times. This is all true, but this apparently honest rant seems to be weirdly at odds with the usual Greenpeace argument that “nuclear power is never profitable” 😂
A translated fragment of the article:
Until now, the energy suppliers have been able to make the provisions work lucratively for them and use the interest- and tax-free money to finance profitable projects. They invested the billions, for example, in investments or company acquisitions. The profit from these projects went into their own pockets. At around 68 billion euros, they have generated almost twice as much money in the past decades as they are now willing to pay for the dismantling and disposal of the nuclear power plants. So the deal has at least paid off for the corporations.
Original: https://www.greenpeace.de/klimaschutz/energiewende/atomausstieg/akw-entsorgung-zahlt (in German)
The whole argument was built on top of the logic that the companies operating these plants made “billions” on nuclear power and the author even called the plants “money-making machines” several times. This is all true, but this apparently honest rant seems to be weirdly at odds with the usual Greenpeace argument that “nuclear power is never profitable” 😂
A translated fragment of the article:
Until now, the energy suppliers have been able to make the provisions work lucratively for them and use the interest- and tax-free money to finance profitable projects. They invested the billions, for example, in investments or company acquisitions. The profit from these projects went into their own pockets. At around 68 billion euros, they have generated almost twice as much money in the past decades as they are now willing to pay for the dismantling and disposal of the nuclear power plants. So the deal has at least paid off for the corporations.
Original: https://www.greenpeace.de/klimaschutz/energiewende/atomausstieg/akw-entsorgung-zahlt (in German)