German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the Western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

  • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    38·
    1 year ago

    Do you think cars are immortal, and are just passed on from owner to owner for all eternity?

    • napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.de
      3·
      1 year ago

      No? Nobody thinks that?

      My comment was just a response to the following:

      Replace your car with an electric one! (even though it still works fine and will end up in landfill, never mind the environmental cost of producing the new one, or the source of the electricity it uses)

      …which for some reason suggests that the introduction of electric cars leads to premature scrapping of existing cars - which is bullshit.

    • maynarkh@feddit.nl
      3·
      1 year ago

      Only East German ones. Then the pigs eat some rotten parts off of them, and the remainder is reassembled into fewer cars. The circle of life. The last people on this planet will still be driving a Trabi.