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Incredible speech: Arnold Schwarzenegger slams Germany for closing nuclear plants while claiming a fossil fuel emergency to its citizens! Schwarzenegger, the most famous living Austrian, speaking Thursday in Vienna, also praises California for saving Diablo Canyon nuclear plant.

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Thayne 🇺🇸2 years ago

They really just don’t want people to have access to cheap energy. The goal is de-growth.

Frank Rauschenberg 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇺🇦2 years ago

Arnie @Schwarzenegger, as much as I respect you, you are factually wrong here. Germany has shut down nuclear and replaced with wind and solar. Coalburn is down,gasconsumption is down. The new gas plants are back ups only.

Erol Basturk2 years ago

Arnold is correct and he just stopped short of saying we should build more nuclear power plants

The Nutter Projects2 years ago

Nuke reactors in Germany:

Mark Le Dain2 years ago

Closing existing nuclear plants is anti environment Takes a massive amount of emissions to just rebuild a similar level of baseload power that is clean and most of the times that’s not even what occurs (they use coal in the interim)

gordonmcdowell2 years ago

I can’t believe how perfect that is.

smopecakes2 years ago

Nuclear is a team player - a good one

Matthew Holt2 years ago

@AdamPosen I don't disagree. Closing functional nuke plants early is not a great idea. But this is a short-term blip. Renewables are becoming so cheap so quickly that they're making nukes & fossil fuels uneconomic. Building new nukes huge cost, as they just did in Georgia, is the crazy path

Der Spezifisch2 years ago

@Die_Gruenen how dare you?

Björn Ö – e(u)/acc2 years ago

Hats of to Arnold. Sad that he even need to make this point though. We've been scammed.

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