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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by lnsru on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:34AM (#20712688)
So how you will balance the grid? You can export excess energy to whenever you want, but what happens when renewables are inactive? Russian gas?..
Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by bayesian_horse on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:00AM (#20713054)
That's a typical objection of people who haven't studied the details.

The engineers who are behind such proposals and plans actually now that sun and wind energy isn't constantly available. That's way there is a mix of energy sources and technologies, including, yes, Russian gas. But also American Liquified Natural Gas. Oil. Electricity storage systems. And maybe even new nuclear reactors in the future, once a few nagging problems have been figured out.

Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by lnsru on Friday August 16, 2019 @05:21AM (#20713454)
There are great engineers for sure in Germany. Not everybody left for Valley or Switzerland. But having 2nd most expensive electricity in Europe is a crystal clear result of bad engineering.