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That you can doesn't mean you do. Both wind and solar uses ex coal as backup and with only 1% of the worlds energy consumption being covered by those its safe t

That you can doesn't mean you do. Both wind and solar uses ex coal as backup and with only 1% of the worlds energy consumption being covered by those its safe to say that currently evs are powered by fossil fuel. Also look up capacity factor. We arent even close to be able to use solar and wind for anything big scale, although actually creating these giant farms are extremely big scale because the energy density is so low.

_ph_ 8y ago
No big scale? Germany is in 2019 at 45% reneweables in the electricity mix so far. At the moment I am writing this, 30% of the electricity is provided by solar, 20% by wind energy.
- staffanj 8y ago
  Are you using Nuclear power as renewable in that figure? https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c... 35% renewable. 12% nuclear.
  - sk0g 8y ago
    Your source goes to 2017, and considering Germany has been fast tracking their renewables effort, a jump of 10% isn't inconceivable.
    - ThomPete 8y ago
      It's misleading and very far from the truth though.
  - _ph_ 8y ago
    No, nuclear is not reneweable. The main sources of reneweable are wind, solar, bio mass, water. Depending on the source the exact numbers might vary for small differences in counting, but to see the overall development, look here: https://www.energy-charts.de/ren_share_de.htm?source=ren-share&period=annual&year=all https://www.energy-charts.de/ren_share_de.htm?source=ren-sha...
- ThomPete 8y ago
  45% of electricity capacity NOT energy consumed. The distinction is extremely important. Those percentages talk about how much capacity they have to produce electricity in Germany NOT how much they consume from that capacity (capacity factor is the important word and that's only between 20-40% of that capacity. Plus those percentages is before you include how much energy is important. In other words that number is highly highly misleading.
  - _ph_ 8y ago
    No, the number is the actual electricity produced. You can see the numbers here: https://www.energy-charts.de/ren_share_de.htm https://www.energy-charts.de/ren_share_de.htm The average of reneweable energy in Germany for 2019 so far is 46.5%, it was slightly over 40% in 2018.
    - ThomPete 8y ago
      The number is not the electricity consumed. Again capacity factor needs to be factored in plus all the other things I just listed for you. So it's highly misleading. On top of that, we haven't even talked about the fact that it's increased the prices dramatically for the german consumer and it's not going to reduce CO2 emissions even looking into the future maybe even slightly increase it because of the need to support it with coal now that they are closing the nuclear power plants. It's a huge failure.
      - _ph_ 8y ago
        You should start providing numbers and links to base your argumentation on. I have provided a link which clearly shows the increase of reneweables in the consumed electricity. Equally, the CO2 per kWh is constantly declining, now at about 480 g/kWh. So CO2 emissions due to electricity production are clearly decreasing in Germany. It is also wrong to speak about "now that they are closing nuclear power plants". Quite a few already have been closed, we habe about 8 left, on average one of those is going to be closed every year, nuclear power is quite small in Germany already. Yes, it will have an impact on the bilance, but the buildup of reneweable energy far exceeds the decomissioning of nuclear power plants.

_ph_ 8y ago

No big scale? Germany is in 2019 at 45% reneweables in the electricity mix so far. At the moment I am writing this, 30% of the electricity is provided by solar, 20% by wind energy.

staffanj 8y ago
Are you using Nuclear power as renewable in that figure? https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c... 35% renewable. 12% nuclear.
- sk0g 8y ago
  Your source goes to 2017, and considering Germany has been fast tracking their renewables effort, a jump of 10% isn't inconceivable.
  - ThomPete 8y ago
    It's misleading and very far from the truth though.
- _ph_ 8y ago
  No, nuclear is not reneweable. The main sources of reneweable are wind, solar, bio mass, water. Depending on the source the exact numbers might vary for small differences in counting, but to see the overall development, look here: https://www.energy-charts.de/ren_share_de.htm?source=ren-share&period=annual&year=all https://www.energy-charts.de/ren_share_de.htm?source=ren-sha...
ThomPete 8y ago
45% of electricity capacity NOT energy consumed. The distinction is extremely important. Those percentages talk about how much capacity they have to produce electricity in Germany NOT how much they consume from that capacity (capacity factor is the important word and that's only between 20-40% of that capacity. Plus those percentages is before you include how much energy is important. In other words that number is highly highly misleading.
- _ph_ 8y ago
  No, the number is the actual electricity produced. You can see the numbers here: https://www.energy-charts.de/ren_share_de.htm https://www.energy-charts.de/ren_share_de.htm The average of reneweable energy in Germany for 2019 so far is 46.5%, it was slightly over 40% in 2018.
  - ThomPete 8y ago
    The number is not the electricity consumed. Again capacity factor needs to be factored in plus all the other things I just listed for you. So it's highly misleading. On top of that, we haven't even talked about the fact that it's increased the prices dramatically for the german consumer and it's not going to reduce CO2 emissions even looking into the future maybe even slightly increase it because of the need to support it with coal now that they are closing the nuclear power plants. It's a huge failure.
    - _ph_ 8y ago
      You should start providing numbers and links to base your argumentation on. I have provided a link which clearly shows the increase of reneweables in the consumed electricity. Equally, the CO2 per kWh is constantly declining, now at about 480 g/kWh. So CO2 emissions due to electricity production are clearly decreasing in Germany. It is also wrong to speak about "now that they are closing nuclear power plants". Quite a few already have been closed, we habe about 8 left, on average one of those is going to be closed every year, nuclear power is quite small in Germany already. Yes, it will have an impact on the bilance, but the buildup of reneweable energy far exceeds the decomissioning of nuclear power plants.