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Or shut nuclear down like in germany, ramp up coal usage and go begging to the russians for a gas pipeline.

• jillesvangurp 6y ago
  It's something that comes up a lot that is simply not true: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c.... Clean energy absorbed most of the growth and shrinkage of coal & nuclear in the years the transition happened. About 2/3rd of the nuclear capacity disappeared around 2010 and the combined growth of coal, gas, and brown coal is a fraction of that in that period. Rewewable growth around the same time on the other hand took most of that. And it didn't stop growing. At this point that dwarfs nuclear, coal, gas, browncoal combined (<40% together). Of those gas is pretty much the only thing that had some growth (beyond 2010 numbers); from the looks of it partially at the cost of black coal. Brown coal has been more or less the same in recent history thanks to the CSU (mainly) lobbying hard for keeping that around for a few decades). But they might have to negotiate with the green party soonish and I doubt they'd agree to continue backing that.
  • rswskg 6y ago
    So nordstream 2 is what then?