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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday November 25 2017, @11:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the hypocritic-oath dept.

According to the AP, NY Times and a boat load of other AP carriers, the country boasting the loudest about how much of their energy needs are fulfilled by renewable sources, coal may be about to win out over one of the oldest forests still standing in Germany:

BERLIN (AP) — A court in western Germany says an ancient forest near the Belgian border can be chopped down to make way for a coal strip mine.

Cologne's administrative court ruled Friday against a legal complaint brought by the environmental group BUND that wanted to halt the clearance of much of the Hambach forest.

Hambach forest has become a focus of environmental protests against the expansion of a vast mine that supplies much of the coal used in nearby power plants.

The coal, a light brown variety called lignite, is considered one of the most polluting forms of fossil fuel.

Meanwhile their reactors are being systematically shut down and dismantled. But dirty coal use shows almost no decline.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @01:26AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @01:26AM (#601555)

    Only fools are saying that.
    Only shills for the most expensive form of electricity generation bring it up.

    Everybody with a working brain is saying "Let's stop digging up stuff in order to produce electricity; let's use renewables."

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @03:32AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @03:32AM (#601581)

    translation: "If you don't agree with me, you're an idiot!"

    Damned leftwing fascists.

    • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @04:45AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @04:45AM (#601601)

      The economics of the electricity production have been obvious for over a year.
      ...and the costs of renewables CONTINUE to fall while the costs of polluting energy CONTINUES to rise.
      So, yeah. That statement is correct in this case.

      ...and you needn't agree with -me-.
      Check out what the majority of people on the planet who are investing in energy infrastructure are choosing.
      Hint: It's not polluting energy for which they must repeatedly buy inputs.
      ...and, again, the price of renewables continues to get smaller each month.

      So, King Canute, you can continue to try to hold back the tide.
      You're going to look awfully silly doing that.

      leftwing fascists

      You're showing your ignorance again.
      Fascism is the merger of Capitalism and Authoritarian gov't.

      "Left" means "Socialist" (Anti-Capitalist).
      The 2 concepts couldn't be more opposite.

      Make an attempt to expand your vocabulary.
      Pejoratives are more effective when they actually have some semblance to reality.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @06:44AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @06:44AM (#601633)

        So, King Canute, you can continue to try to hold back the tide.
        You're going to look awfully silly doing that.

        Nitpick: Again with the misinterpreting of the Canute thing....the whole point of the Canute fable/anecdote/whatever was that Canute was trying to show his sycophantic followers by extremum exemplo that there were limits to temporal powers, his specifically. This is what I was taught way back in primary school (ages 5-12) 40 years ago, even Wikipedia has this....

        If the holding back the tide incident did indeed happen, I think that old Cnut would be somehow saddened by the fact that even after close on a thousand years people still didn't grok the true meaning of his actions that day.

    • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @07:49AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @07:49AM (#601657)

      That's insightful? I see the conservatard mods are out in full force tonight...

      Damned leftwing fascists.

      Translation: if you're not with us you're with the terrorists. We got ours, FUCK YOU!

      Hey dumbass: the "left" aren't the fascists, that alt-right are. If you weren't a Faux News-echoing alt-right fucktard you'd know that.

      Damed tribal-mentality dipshit alt-right conservatards. Do the world a favor and don't procreate. Help correct the societal damage your parents did by creating you. Go do something actually useful with your life for a change, like sitting in a forest turning oxygen into carbon dioxide for the trees and turning yourself into bear chow when a hungry bear walks by.