Germany went from envy of the world to worst-performing major developed economy

Re:Germany went from envy of the world to worst-performing m... by fonkyyack on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:45AM (#37599397)

Well you can look at the money but environmentally it's a disaster. Closing nuclear power plant was a mistake, reopening coal power plant is another. But I guess what's important is the economy...

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Re:Germany went from envy of the world to worst-performing m... by klaustopher on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:56AM (#37599561)

If you look at the real data, you see that the loss of nuclear has nicely been covered by wind and solar: https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...

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Re:Germany went from envy of the world to worst-performing m... by kuchenbecker on Thursday September 21, 2023 @08:12PM (#37606213)

Energy is fungible

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Re:Germany went from envy of the world to worst-performing m... by abenga on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:55AM (#37608034)

If you close a nuclear plant while a non-zero number of fossil fuel plants are still online, you don't care about emissions as much as you claim, regardless of what you replace them with.

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