As we all know, as long as they are living, both humans and animals and plants are exchanging energy all the time. While there are still many industrial productions in human society, the importance of natural energy is self-evident. There are three types of energy sources on the earth according to their sources. One is the energy from the sun, the other is the energy from the earth itself, and the other is the gravitational force of the moon and the sun on the earth.
At present, the mainstream and more popular way of using energy in the world is still concentrated in the first category, that is, energy from the sun. This form of energy mainly includes light and heat radiation energy directly derived from the sun, as well as indirect combustible minerals such as coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass energy such as fuelwood, wind energy, and water energy. But recently, there is a surprising news: Germany intends to abandon nuclear power, coal power and natural gas! This is how it happened?
The ten-year controversy ended! Germany will abandon nuclear power, coal power, and natural gas
The news broke, and it suddenly hit the top of the hot search list on a certain platform. This also shows how shocking it is! As the energy crisis is sweeping the world, many European countries still choose to reduce nuclear energy. Among them, Germany is the most powerful. The official CCTV Daily Business News reported that: Germany insists on shutting down the last three nuclear power plants in 2022, and the dual-line has become the first country in the Western industrial power to completely abandon nuclear weapons.
At the same time, the report also stated that not only nuclear power, but according to the German energy plan, all coal power plants will be shut down by 2038 and natural gas will be abandoned by 2050.Germany’s powerful measures have also profoundly affected other European countries. Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, and France have also made plans to abandon or reduce nuclear energy. So this is a bit bizarre, why does Germany abandon nuclear power plants? Why are the major European countries all following the trend? Do they want to return to primitive society without nuclear power, coal power, or natural gas?
What are the possible reasons for abandoning nuclear power, coal power, and natural gas?
This measure of Germany is indeed incomprehensible to many people, but as expert analysis said: Germany has its own ideas on how to use energy, and nuclear power was already German electricity 10 years ago. One-quarter of the source in the supply chain, and now suddenly abandoning nuclear power, entangled for 10 years, in fact, can be regarded as another replacement of energy.
Some netizens said: abandon nuclear power, coal power, natural gas, do you plan to use love for power generation in the future? The Rubik's Cube believes that there is no need to worry about others at all. Before this decision was made, Germany had already begun the transition to energy methods. According to the 2020 German Electricity Structure Report, renewable energy currently accounts for 46.3% of Germany’s electricity consumption, and the German Energy and Water Economic Association BDEW has stated that Germany hopes to increase the proportion of renewable energy in the electricity structure by 2030 Increase to 65%.
Germany's recent growth in installed renewable energy capacity
Secondly, another major reason for Germany may lie in the general environmental trend and the country's overcapacity of electricity! According to the BDEW2020 report, Europe's largest economy is currently making efforts to curb climate warming emissions caused by thermal power plants by expanding wind and solar power generation.When the world is advocating clean energy, Germany, as an example, naturally has to make corresponding adjustments.
The speed of Germany’s transition from nuclear and fossil fuel power generation to renewable energy power generation has exceeded expectations
For the country, due to German operators’ priority power supply initiatives for renewable energy on the grid, Therefore, the corona effect is outstanding. Conventional operators have also reduced the scale of fossil fuel power generation, thereby avoiding overproduction that may be caused by the inability to store large amounts of electricity.
Which power generation method is better?
It is worth mentioning that there are thousands of power generation methods in the world, but they are all selected from the three methods mentioned above. Then the question arises, given that Germany chooses to abandon nuclear power, which is not so popular in most countries, and coal power, natural gas and other energy methods that may be abandoned in the future, which one can be trusted and a better discharge method? Kind of? Let's first briefly analyze the advantages and disadvantages of several commonly used energy methods for power generation!
For the first time, it is currently a very controversial nuclear power. Some people say that nuclear power is better than coal power. What is the advantage of it? Nuclear power is currently relatively mature in technology. Generally speaking, it uses the energy generated by nuclear fission and fusion to generate electricity. The advantage is that it produces a lot of energy. The energy produced by the complete fission of 1 kilogram of uranium can match the energy produced by several large trucks of coal. But the disadvantage is that nuclear energy is very powerful after all, and fission is fortunately experienced, but fusion is not easy to control. At the same time, the pollution reduction of nuclear energy production is also a major global problem.
second,It is another array of traditional energy sources such as coal power, oil, and natural gas. According to relevant statistics, these three categories currently account for more than 80% of the global energy share, so they also have the nickname "fossil energy". The advantage lies in the availability of local materials and convenient transportation. Secondly, it has a relatively high energy density, and then it has a lower cost and a wide range of popularization. However, the shortcomings are also very obvious, that is, all kinds of pollution, and will be used up non-renewable, affect human health, the sustainable development of nature, and so on.
and then there are other major camps of new energy such as wind energy, geothermal energy, ocean energy, biomass, hydrogen energy , etc., although for this category of energy, Like nuclear energy, it is a new energy source and has the biggest advantage of large heat generation. At the same time, its low penetration rate, high cost, and large impact on environmental factors are also very obvious. In addition, the technology is not too mature, so large-scale development is still relatively limited.
Then the problem is coming! Which power generation method is better? From the perspective of Rubik's Cube, this problem may be an unsolvable problem. Because each subject’s own environmental conditions, difficulty in energy upgrades, and even economic conditions are different, the power generation method is the experience that human society has explored for so long. No matter which one is suitable for the country, the environment should be reduced as much as possible. Influence, every energy method can become the "best" energy method!
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