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Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle by fabian2k on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:19AM (#35579947)
In 2022 (https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2023/03...):

- 33% coal - 11% natural gas - 24% wind - 11% solar - 6% nuclear

Nuclear was already winding down with only 6% in 2022. Medium term renewables are growing and will replace it, short term coal and gas.

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Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle by RGamma on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:30AM (#35580030)
Wait 'till we notice that one needs giant storage capacity for an actual renewables switch too ;)

The economic potential wasted in this country over the past ~30 years by shortsighted political self-sabotage is almost hilarious.

And after 50 years of sub-replacement fertility, now we'll get wrecked even harder by what's going to happen with this graphic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#/med...

Of course, it all comes so suddenly...

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Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle by HyperSane on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:28AM (#35580011)
As a result of this Germany emits about 6 times as much CO2 per kWh as France.
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