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They should have subsidised the renewable engeries much longer.

Now we went from nuclear back to coal, which doesn't help anybody.

When they started to subsidise solar and wind, I hoped in the next decades we would have a clean country, but then they stopped it and now we are stuck with coal for much longer than needed :\



One of the problems with renewables is that they require extensive (aka costly) maintenance before they've actually offset their own construction cost. I read an article a few years back where one of the examples was that most wind power plants are only profitable after ~15-20 years but require costly maintenance at the 5-10 year mark and from there onward.




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