fachan t1_jcmy69c wrote on March 18, 2023 at 12:16 AM Reply to TIL: Staufen, Germany, a picturesque town with buildings dating to the 16th century, is literally being destroyed by a failed attempt to harness geothermal energy. by AUWarEagle82 Meanwhile, almost 50 (and counting!) similar villages have been destroyed for just one coal mine https://www.npr.org/2021/06/28/1010956116/a-coal-mining-monster-is-threatening-to-swallow-a-small-town-in-germany And this German mine continues to consume villages and (a wind farm) even thought they don't even need the coal https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/14/europe/lutzerath-germany-coal-protests-climate-intl/index.html >An August report by international research platform Coal Transitions found that even if coal plants operate at very high capacity until the end of this decade, they already have more coal available than needed from existing supplies. Permalink 9
fachan t1_jcmy69c wrote
Reply to TIL: Staufen, Germany, a picturesque town with buildings dating to the 16th century, is literally being destroyed by a failed attempt to harness geothermal energy. by AUWarEagle82
Meanwhile, almost 50 (and counting!) similar villages have been destroyed for just one coal mine
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/28/1010956116/a-coal-mining-monster-is-threatening-to-swallow-a-small-town-in-germany
And this German mine continues to consume villages and (a wind farm) even thought they don't even need the coal
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/14/europe/lutzerath-germany-coal-protests-climate-intl/index.html
>An August report by international research platform Coal Transitions found that even if coal plants operate at very high capacity until the end of this decade, they already have more coal available than needed from existing supplies.