Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Why Germany Is Rapidly Digging Europe's Largest Hole" video.

@ketsuekikumori9145 Yeah, nuclear just isn't a solution...
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@cupcakke1294 No. Finland and Sweden has the advantage of being on top of a tectonic craton. That helps a lot. But even in the case of Finnland it's debatable if their measures are sufficient for the waste products of fission. Fusion may be a part of the solution if its issues are worked out soon enough. But as is the only real solution is increased infrastructure. There's always sunny, windy or raining *somewhere*, but to use that for a base load you need to build the infrastructure to transport it from there. That means among other things efficient power transfer all the way from north Africa to the northern part of the nordic countries and from Ireland and Scotland (and perhaps as far as Iceland) and as far east as Ukraine, Turkey, and indeed Russia, yes, even with renewables we're still going to need to cooperate with Russia...
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@berendhol4060 That might work for a century or two... But the waste lasts longer than that. Imagine if that ancient egyptians had used nuclear power... If they had done what you suggested the waste might have ended up in the water of the Nile river causing cancer all over Europe and anywhere else where we eat fish. And the sand might get radiated causing radiation poisoning in south America as well. This is dangerous for thousands of years. Our very language is probably no longer readable while the waste still remains dangerous.
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@90enemies Also, once you've seen that video. (And please do, my comment below won't really make sense otherwise) So, what's actually happening in Germany and Norway respectivly is that in Germany gas plants capable of running on 100% hydrogen is planned and will come online for that role of covering what other sources fail to provide. In Norway hydropower as always is the main solution for that. But sometimes we have negative demand, since the hydropower plants ends up producing energy simply in order to stop them from overflowing and collapsing due to too much rain. And sometimes we have too much energy from things like wind power. So we're building energy sinks that will buy power cheaply or even can take power at times when the energy companies are willing to pay people to take their energy, and converting that to green hydrogen. it's not a ideal solution, but it works for the grids in question. And those power plants that can run on natural gas also gives Germany the option of going fossile if for whatever reason enough green hydrogen isn't available. As for years when Norway is having a dry spell... Well, those German power plants can run just as well on hydrogen produced in Morocco or even across the sea in South America or North America or even Asia. So this option gives Germany the ability to import energy from other continents if needed, increasing the contrys green flexibility.
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