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https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/117033665964285877
more water shortages at nuclear plants.
Until they use little to no fresh water for cooling, current plants are not a realistic solution to the fossil fuel transition and building new is ludicrous when renewables, even with battery systems, are orders of magnitude cheaper and less environmentally needy.
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🌊 Record heat has shallowed Europe’s rivers, exposing mammoth bones, sunken ships and costing the economy hundreds of millions of euros.
In Bulgaria, a mammoth jawbone and tusks have been found on the bare bottom of the Danube, in Croatia, the cargo ship Fulton, which sank in 1937, and in Serbia, a German warship from World War II.
The Danube in Budapest has fallen to a record 23 cm, Rhine traffic has fallen by 10%, and Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant is shutting down due to water shortages
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