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Because people are misrepresenting facts (aka. lying) Germany did not stop using nuclear power, it started phasing it out (which had actually been planned long

by brazzy 7y ago

Because people are misrepresenting facts (aka. lying) Germany did not stop using nuclear power, it started phasing it out (which had actually been planned long before Fukushima), and has not been producing more pollution because it has in fact been replacing coal and gas as well as nuclear with renewable sources: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

cygx 7y ago
Germany has actually slightly increased its gas usage - though compared to other energy sources, its currently more of a rounding error in magnitude: 2002 2018 Total 503 545 Coal+Oil 253 205 Nuclear 156 72 Gas 40 44 Biomass 4 45 Wind+Solar+Hydro 39 177 Other 10 3 https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&period=annual&year=all https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&p...
- brazzy 7y ago
  More significantly, the increase in gas is more than offset by a decrease in coal and oil.
  - jhayward 7y ago
    Right. Quantitatively: Coal declined by 48 TWh Gas increased by 4 TWh. Nuclear declined by 84 TWh. Renewables picked up the slack by adding 130 TWh of generation.