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Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by franciscop on Monday May 01, 2023 @09:29PM (#35781993)
They are really advanced for renewable relatively speaking, but also just got rid of the last nuclear so they ran out of options since green tech doesn't cover 100% yet in Germany.

IMHO and in many external observers opinion they did it the wrong way, the sane way would be as renewable adoption grows to first phase out carbon, then gas, then nuclear. Gas was forced to phase out (Russia->Ukraine war), and for some reason they are closing nuclear before renewable is common enough, so the only remaining option is carbon.

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Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by jacooper on Monday May 01, 2023 @09:42PM (#35782126)
The reason is dumb politics and antinuclear movements in the green party.

This government is going to get obliterated in the next election there.

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Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by ulfw on Monday May 01, 2023 @09:48PM (#35782199)
Merkel wasn't any better. She tried to be greener than the Greens. It was under her government that nuclear was decided to get phased out. Fukishima did a panic on her government, even though German nuclear plants are neither on earthquake faults nor on tsunami-prone coasts.

Her way of drifting more and more in that direction has propagated a new right wing extremest party (AfD) to come up as well. A ton of things she did wrong domestically.

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