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Let's not argue semantics. Building new plants, extending existing ones, digging more coal or importing it from abroad. It's all the same. "Green" energy faile

by tomp 4y ago

Let's not argue semantics. Building new plants, extending existing ones, digging more coal or importing it from abroad. It's all the same. "Green" energy failed, even for one of its biggest proponents. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coal-tops-wind-as-primary-electricity-source/a-59168105 https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coal-tops-wind-as-primary-elec... > In the first half of 2021, coal shot up as the biggest contributor to Germany's electric grid, while wind power dropped to its lowest level since 2018.

cycomanic 4y ago
Your definition of failure is a funny one. So renewables are now consistently supplying 20-30% of Germanys electricity despite decades of efforts by the fossil and nuclear lobby, which essentially destroyed Germanys wind and solar industry (which was world leading). Nuclear on the other hand which, if you read what proponents said in the 50s, 60s and 70s, was going to give us unlimited free energy, is somehow deemed a success? Now that renewables are essentially eating fossils and nuclears lunch we are supposed to believe that some sort of nuclear technological revolution is just around the corner and all the high costs are due to the "bad government regulations" anyway?
pydry 4y ago
It's not semantics. Germany built its last ever coal plant several years ago and has been slowly turning them off for a while now.