Uranium is not renewable. At least not yet.
Which means it's coming form outside Europe.
Which means, Germany's approach is pretty sound long term for their and EU's balance sheet.
It reached 58% elect. from renewables in 2025. on track for 80% by 2030.
The right's obsession with nuclear baffles me. I thought you guys were all about energy independence?

You mean how he/they produced fake documents to ask a question about a fake problem?
This is well documented, this questionning of the South African delegation is one of the most blatantly made up facts situation.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-makes-false-claims-white-genocide-south-africa-during-ramaphosa-meeting-2025-05-21/

Funny enough Czech's Babis allied with the far right and 'motorists for themselves'.

Letter signed by Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Slovakia.

I should have added nuance but:
- Germany irrelevant, not a signing member
- Slovakia's Fico is populist, allied to the nationalists and has all the right wing tropes, all the youth in the street, anti EU
- Czech: Andrej BabiÅ is a little Trump, populist, Russian fan etc...
- Poland is my exception here but alas it's on a razor thin majority with PiS crimpling Duda's moves.

I really wish I were wrong.

...to favor EU energy and reduce the primary energy needs. You know all that 'nationalism'.

Yes, the post failed to mention that all countries listed have a far right government.

We should have let consumers choose.
Because consumers were atmosphere chemist experts.
We should also let consumers choose at the hospital what they need because they're doctors.
Ad nauseam....

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-solar-growth-keeps-chinas-co2-falling-in-first-half-of-2025/
Quotes:
Coal use in the power industry fell by 3.4% compared with the same period a year earlier, while gas use increased by 6%, resulting in a 3.2% drop in emissions for the sector overall.

The reduction in CO2 emissions from coal use in the power sector is shown at the bottom of the figure below, along with the small rise due to higher gas-fired electricity generation.

So no renewables have started displacing burnt coal for electricity generation. The current worry is that they use coal for chemistry much more now and export it more.

Best summary. I'll reuse it.

You keep refering to freedom & taxes.
But if it's the freedom for my neighbors to have guns? Low taxes to have no public transport and schools and hospitals?
I see myself as part of a society that agrees on freedom restricting rules for the greater happyness. Not mentioning more sustainable lifestyles.

I would prefer to live in Europe any day.
So all those regulations maybe, just maybe, they make happier people?

You wrote pb at scale is impossible. I'm saying 16% is at scale. And it's growing super fast. Spain is not adding any nuclear or hydro. And is not planning to. It'll be at 50%+ in 10~20 years.

Uh..
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045666/share-of-the-photovoltaic-solar-generation-in-the-total-generation-spain/#:~:text=In%202023%2C%20the%20generation%20of,total%20electricity%20generation%20in%20Spain.

| Same as with how some people still think a full solar/wind grid is realistic at scale (not talking about countries with the ability to do enough hydro).
While I fail to see what hydro with your argument, spain doesn't have a large hydro, sitting at ~10%.
They're already at 14% of Gwh by solar, and growing fast.

Physics are different in Spain?

Permitting!= Building
Building!= Firing

Energy-related carbon emissions added less than 1% in 2022 to a new high of more than 36.8 billion tons. The increase was less than expected, as renewables helped limit the impact of a global rise in coal and oil consumption. Comparatively, global emissions from energy gained by 6% in 2021.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/08/energy-chinas-renewables-progress-comes-alongside-a-coal-power-boom.html

Source?

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https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-track-hit-new-clean-dirty-power-records-2022-maguire-2022-11-23/