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> "green" energy countries like Germany Not sure why you consider them to be "green" given the facts you brought up. Germany has never been particularly green
by geysersam 2y ago
> "green" energy countries like Germany
Not sure why you consider them to be "green" given the facts you brought up. Germany has never been particularly green energy wise. It's a big population and lots of heavy industry with relatively little energy resources like hydro.
The are building solar and wind quickly now. Maybe that's why you got the impression that they are "green".
- bboygravity 2y agoThe reason I wrote "green" is because, Germany actively hypes itself up as being very green and many people believe them because they have such a vast amount of solar and wind installed.
- baq 2y agoGermany's energy policy is one huge cognitive dissonance at best, gross mismanagement in the base case and a three-decade-long foreign intelligence job at worst.
- bboygravity 2y agoI completely agree. Keyword: Gerard Schroder for those who are curious about "three-decade-long foreign intelligence job".
- Symbiote 2y agoFor all the criticism Germany's energy policies get on HN, they're still approximately as "green" as Texas, and better than several other US states. Set https://app.electricitymaps.com/ https://app.electricitymaps.com/ to the yearly view and see the CO₂ figures.
- pjc50 2y agoGermany is still very much captured by its coal lobby. The extent to which they are green is that they have a fairly vocal green party .. with 14% of the vote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens (This is incomprehensible to Anglosphere FPTP two-party systems)