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You're making excuses for burning coal. I'm saying they shouldn't be burning it at all.

Why the hell did they ban nuclear before coal anyway? That was just stupid.

Actually coal consumption is down to the level of the 1960s.

Yes, it's down since the 1960s. If this is your level of understanding I don't expect this to go well.. 🙄

It shot up between 2020 and 2023 (4th chart here): https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts

Yes other things were happening, yes other values are moving up (renewables - yay!). But with no nuclear to fall back on Coal plants had to fire up to bear the burden of pressure on other fuels.

Nuclear is clean. Coal is certainly not clean.

Edit: also - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-approves-bringing-coal-fired-power-plants-back-online-this-winter-2023-10-04/

This is brilliant! We should also teach people to not steal or murder too! OMG I think you've cracked it!

Do you have a book or newsletter I could subscribe to?

I never said that. But there are ways we have to do neither. Why not concentrate on those, especially since they are magnitudes cheaper.

FSS I hate discussions with people.... You can do more than one thing. You could have concentrated on both nuclear AND renewables and stopped burning COAL - but no, instead Germany had a fucking uptick in coal power while dropping the much cleaner nuclear.

This was so foreseeable it hurts. Renewables simply aren't up to the task of baseload generation yet in the way that nuclear is.

Go ahead and try to use it then.