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You heat you house with oil? I thought Germany was environmentally conscious

• Gasp0de 5y ago
  Unfortunately, Germany has been ruled by a conservative party for the last 16 years and they did everything in their power to sabotage renewable energy so that lignite mining could stay longer. However, heating in Germany is a difficult problem to solve with renewable energy: You need lots of power in winter, when there is (close to) no power from solar. One solution would be excessive wind power and heat pumps that can be controlled remotely by the power grid operators.
• coryrc 5y ago
  It's called "greenwashing". A fair bit of electricity is produced with solar (at a far higher cost than their neighbor's carbon-free electricity) but their gasoline and diesel vehicle manufacturing continues unbounded and their heat primarily comes from fossil fuel.
• llampx 5y ago
  Germany is still mining coal but they are environment conscious so they sell it to Poland to burn and buy electricity from them.
  • Gasp0de 5y ago
    That seems like complete bullshit, since Germany doesn't mine anything apart from lignite, which can't feasibly be transported. Do you perhaps have a source on coal export to Poland? Also, Germany exports more electricity than it imports.