dojan

dojan, 1 year ago

I just paid my electricity bill and got really surprised that it was sub 400SEK. It’s consistently been above 800, sometimes upwards of 2000 since the pandemic. Our kw/h price for September was 46,61 öre. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fe64b9b2-3504-47d5-a8eb-5aed2f292da1.png

dojan, 1 year ago

That’s because nuclear energy is green. It doesn’t produce any greenhouse gas emissions. You having bought into the fearmongering about nuclear doesn’t change reality.

dojan, 1 year ago

I interpreted “right now” in the message as “today”, or “when the post was made.”

Some days are purely renewable. Others aren’t. In the winter when electricity usage goes up it’s not uncommon for us to import fossil fuel electricity from other countries. The green party also suggested powering up natural gas plants as we were shutting down nuclear. Ngas obviously isn’t renewable.

Svenska Kraftnät has a “control room” with graphs and timelines on exports/imports and energy sources.

“Värmekraft” is power produced by burning things, it can be coal, oil, wood fuels, garbage, etc.

“Ospecifierat” (unspecified) includes power produced in facilities with more than one type of source, where you cannot separate what produces what.

dojan, 1 year ago

That happens. Feels like most climate related things that aren’t disasters is greenwashing so it’s not an infeasible conclusion to jump to.

dojan, 1 year ago

Sweden does it right and the Swedes can be proud of themselves.

Reading this as a Swede is kind of funny because we have a lot of criticism internally in this subject. Our electric prices have been wild these past few years, like, bankrupting businesses and people wild.

I remember reading an article about a bakery shutting down because they got an electric bill on like 70k, in addition to all the other operating costs.

dojan, 1 year ago

Given that my inextant basement wouldn’t be a facility equipped to store or process nuclear waste had it existed, I’d obviously have some reservations. Having lived near such a facility however, and having been involved politically with it, I have no big qualms about it no. Why do you?

dojan, 1 year ago

I never claimed it was. It’s a waste processing and storage facility. Waste comes in, waste goes out.

dojan, 1 year ago

That’s fair. The CO2 emissions involved in production and building anything shouldn’t be disregarded.

dojan, 1 year ago

Me saying that you’re right doesn’t make sense? A house built using cement isn’t CO2 neutral. A house built using wood uses less CO2, but it isn’t neutral either. A nuclear reactor won’t be CO2 neutral, even if the fission process or the turbines don’t generate any CO2. A wind turbine by comparison, while it won’t have the same output capacity as a nuclear reactor, would use a lot less CO2 to manufacture and assemble.