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Re:Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air (Revised, Communit... by cbmuser on Sunday October 31, 2021 @10:48AM (#29057363)
Germany has a large share (50%) of renewables and their specific CO2 emissions per kWh are up to ten times higher as compared to France with 70% nuclear.

Volatile renewables don’t effectively help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?t...

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Re:Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air (Revised, Communit... by derriz on Sunday October 31, 2021 @11:49AM (#29057831)
"Volatile" renewables absolutely do help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

As the renewables share of generation has been increasing, the CO2 intensity of electricity generation in Germany has dropped from 542gCO2/kWh in 2000 to 296gCO2/kWh in 2020[1].

Btw, your link brings me to a table on agricultural CO2 emissions?

[1] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/development-o...

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