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Comment Re:Germany is so conservative that it's petrified (Score 1) 287

You're just salty that we're not doing nuclear. There have been no electricity shortages. Germany produces more electricity than it uses. "Baseload" apparently doesn't care what moves the electrons as long as they are being moved, which renewables factually, provably, do - and not just in Germany.

Comment Re:They know what is coming (Score 1) 287

Germany is a net exporter of electricity. It produces more electricity than it uses. The share that renewables produce (not just capacity) has grown to almost half, up from just 10% thirty years ago. The so-called "cold reserve", shutdown conventional power plants which are kept in working order, hasn't been used even once so far. Coal mining has not been reopened and existing mines have had their capacities reduced. EVERYTHING you wrote is wrong.

Comment Re:Energy sprawl (Score 1) 287

The decision to phase out nuclear is years older than the Fukushima meltdowns. The exit from nuclear had then be reversed by the Merkel administration, a decision which was untenable after Fukushima, so the previous exit from nuclear was reinstated.

Nuclear has only ever produced 25% of the electricity in Germany. It currently produces close to 10%. In the same time frame, renewables have added much more capacity and production than the nuclear reduction took away, and Germany has (net) exported more electricity, not imported more. Germany is part of the European grid and exports and imports even at the same time, and the prices of Germany's electricity imports and exports are balanced.

Comment Re:Germany is so conservative that it's petrified (Score 1) 287

There is no way to discuss with a willfully ignorant person. Renewables have not just "nibbled" at the "baseload". Their production capacity has increased from less then 20% 15 years ago to more than half today. All non-renewable electricity sources have stagnated or decreased even in absolute numbers, and massively lost relative to the total electricity production. Nuclear has not been replaced by coal and gas. Nuclear has only ever produced 25% of the electricity in Germany. It's down to about 10% and the difference has been more than taken up by renewable sources.

Comment Germany is so conservative that it's petrified (Score 2) 287

There's no progress anymore except where you can hide it from the public. Our neighbor country is known for its windmills (many of which weren't actually mills but helped drain the country by pumping water). They're a celebrated icon of the Netherlands. But modern people don't make the connection. "Strom kommt aus der Steckdose" (electricity comes from the wall socket) and the wind turbines are just nuisances. I live in a region which is deformed by open pit mines for lignite. Guess what I find more appealing, the dozen "windmills" I can see from my home or the giant hole in the ground. It's not even about the environment. Burning the ground we live on for electricity is archaic compared to wind and solar electricity.

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