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?

  • napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.de
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    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.