How to cope with the reduced availability of electric energy

Now it looks like Germany is going back to coal, still frightened about using nuclear energy.

France and 11 additional EU states decided for supporting the nuclear power and thus probably best securing their country’s availability for electric energy.

In the long term, new generation Nuclear in a distributed small reactor network will be the main planet saver technology, before the Fusion technology becomes a reality. What is mostly ignored about renewables is the fact that 100% renewables will be unrealistic, because of the need for regulating the grid, achieved by the big base load power plants. Renewable produce the unwanted effect of high volatility and harmonics. Replacing base load power plants by RES only, will require huge investments in storage, regulation, and filtration facilities. The costs for such investments will be close to the global grid investment and as such, economically uninteresting. Another critical negative effect of the RES is their emission footprint for producing PV cells, aluminum frames, wind turbine blades, concrete for wind turbine foundations and towers, steel for the towers. Recycling of the blades comprising composite materials such as carbon graphite fiber mixed with glass fiber and additional synthetic composite material is still far away to be used in practice. The same applies to the Photovoltaics with the silicon cell material.

Africa and Asia are the final land filler continents where most of the RES waste is exported.

The EU needs a strict regulation about certifying only a RES product when it is guaranteed that the same product will be using a most environmentally friendly recycling process WITHIN the EU borders. The same regulation should verify the type of eco-friendly or eco-harmful materials to be used for producing RES equipment. This way, producing batteries should be un-subsidized up to the level of banned as the process actually uses child labor and exploiting cobalt mines beside other here not detailed processes.

This regulating task should become part of the new Horizon Programs.

?Which countries use nuclear energy in Europe? [1]

In March 2013, 12 EU states joined together to promote the role of nuclear energy in the EU’s energy mix. The countries that signed the agreement are the UK, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Spain.

?What is the EU doing about nuclear power?[2]

The EC acknowledged that "electricity produced from nuclear power plants constitutes a reliable base-load supply of emission-free electricity and plays an important role for energy security," and that "EU industry has technological leadership on the whole chain, including enrichment and reprocessing."

?Message to the political parties and their respective counselors

The time urges us all for making use of the best technologies that we have available for saving our actual energy misconception by protecting the planet and ourself from falling back to Middle Age.

Green dogma endangers our view to exploit realistically available solutions on producing the energy we need. ?

? [1] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/others/european-union.aspx

[2] Nuclear Power in the European Union - World Nuclear Association (world-nuclear.org)