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Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by cubefox on Monday May 01, 2023 @09:55PM (#35782264)
Yes, wind and solar are highly volatile; coal, nuclear and natural gas are not. When they decided to disable nuclear power, they wanted to replace it with natural gas from Russia (that's why they promoted Nord Stream 2), since it produces less CO2 than coal, but those gas deliveries were largely cut off because of the Ukraine war. So now only coal is left as a stable energy source.
Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by legulere on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:12PM (#35782415)
Before making claims, please look up numbers. In the same period nuclear was shut off in Germany coal-use also went down.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Energiemix_Deutsch...

Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by cubefox on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:28AM (#35783367)
So what? It went down much less than it would have if needed nuclear wasn't disabled.
Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by bumby on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @09:58AM (#35787482)
Is it possible that something large scale happened to the economy in the 2020-2022 timeframe that affected that baseload? Do you have absolute usage numbers rather than relative?