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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...

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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.
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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?
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