re: Germany demolishes their newest coal-fired power plant. Only 6 yrs old.

They're going out of their way to freeze next winter.

While it’s understandable to question and ridicule Germany for demolishing a large 6 year old coal burning power plant, American citizens need to look in the mirror before we get too critical of others.
POWER magazine reported in February of this year that 780 coal burners have been shut down in America since 2000 and you can be assured that many of those had 10 to 20 more years of life ahead of them and we are on course to close half of the coal burners that still exist in America by 2026.
This continues to destabilize the nation’s power grid and needs to be reconsidered by the current administration, realistically Germany and the rest of the world are probably laughing at us for shutting down generation that is powered by our most abundant resource.

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Need to push Nuclear as safe, sustainable energy

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Germany bids farewell to its last nuclear plants, eyes hydrogen future

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“Nuclear power remains a risky technology, and in the end, the risks can’t be controlled even in a high-tech country like Germany,” Environment Minister Steffi Lemke said at a news conference ahead of the shutdown.

She cited the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima atomic power plant in 2011, when a tsunami knocked out the power supply leading to a catastrophic meltdown, evoking memories of the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl that remains a pivotal event for Germany’s anti-nuclear movement.

For the past 12 years, Krone and others have worked to convince public and private partners to invest in what they hope will be a key green fuel of the future. The region already produces more renewable energy than it consumes and aims to become a hub for hydrogen production using wind and solar power in the coming years.

“We have the big advantage that all the infrastructure, the networks, are there,” he said.

One of the world’s biggest clean hydrogen production facilities is due to begin operating in Lingen this fall. Some of it will be used to make “green steel,” a vital step if Europe’s biggest economy wants to become carbon neutral by 2045.

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That is a weird video.

They pretty much just removed the muffler. What about the rest of the plant?

Why wouldn’t you just mothball it if you didn’t want to use it? Hell, we still have transport ships sitting (mothball fleet) in the Neches River near Beaumont just in case we need to move military equipment.

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Why don’t these hippies support nuclear energy? Clean as it gets, and cost efficient

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Nuclear energy will be back. It’s inevitable.