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Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by ceejayoz on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @03:12PM (#38281773)
> Everywhere else at best wind and solar were at 30% production.

Which is up from pretty close to 0% just a few decades ago (example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Germany#/media/F...). We're just getting started; this is a multi-generational megaproject.

You seem to think people are declaring the shift to renewables to be finished. I'm not sure where you obtained that misunderstanding.

Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by troupo on Thursday November 16, 2023 @08:26AM (#38289227)
People claim there's no need for nuclear, and that all the needs are covered by renewables, we "just" need to maybe overprovision them.

Germany already overprovisioned. 200% of electricity requirements. And yet...

When I point out that even overprovisioning doesn't seem to work, people deflect, deny, stop responding, or reply in non-sequiturs.

So. Given that yesterday renewables in only two countries (Greece) managed to reach 50% of their installed capacity (not all renewables, but different types of renewables), how many renewables need to built to make sure that all of EU needs are met?

Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by ceejayoz on Thursday November 16, 2023 @09:39AM (#38290031)
> Germany already overprovisioned.

You keep saying this, and then you keep saying they don't have enough. These both cannot be true, and Germany's continuing to expand their wind/solar efforts indicate they don't believe they've "overprovisioned" yet.

Germany's plan goes out to the 2050s. Your complaint that they haven't provisioned enough yet is not in good faith.