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Re:Germany is moving beyond nuclear power, but at what cost? by lispm on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @05:41PM (#21996556)
That's simply wrong. Renewable energy for electricity is at 46% last year. Up from 6% in 2000. Coal has been declining a lot from 2000 (when the Energiewende startet) to today.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Energiem...

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Re:Germany is moving beyond nuclear power, but at what cost? by renaudg on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @06:38PM (#21996986)
You're just focusing on the wrong metric.

Because coal is so bad in terms of carbon intensity (800 gCO2/kwH), Germany's greenhouse gas emissions figures are still terrible on average.

"Why Aren't Renewables Decreasing Germany's Carbon Emissions?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/10/10/why-arent...

"Why solar and wind won’t make much difference to carbon dioxide emissions" https://blog.oup.com/2017/10/solar-wind-energy-carbon-dioxid...

"German electricity was nearly 10 times dirtier than France's in 2016" http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/2/11/german-e...

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Re:Germany is moving beyond nuclear power, but at what cost? by lispm on Thursday January 09, 2020 @06:56AM (#22000441)
> You're just focusing on the wrong metric.

I don't and you are posting links to outdated articles.

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Re:Germany is moving beyond nuclear power, but at what cost? by zeeZ on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @06:19PM (#21996854)
For current values, check by switching to the country tab: https://m-transparency.entsoe.eu/generation/r2/actualGenerat...
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