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foundafreeusername t1_it48rdt wrote

Reply to comment by FreezingRobot in German leader warns against 'worldwide renaissance' for coal by Wagamaga

I wish once in my life I arrive to a discussion here and people use actual data instead of hearsay.

Germanys nuclear phaseout looks like this:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-stacked?time=2000..latest&country=~DEU

They roughly halved coal usage since the nuclear phaseout began and replaced both with renewables.

For comparison here is the us:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-stacked?time=2000..latest&country=~USA

They also roughly halved coal usage ... and replaced it with gas.

Notice the difference?

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fgdfghdhj5yeh t1_it4i6ag wrote

yea they did better than USA, but they can do better than themselves by making that purple(nuclear) on the right side as big as the grey(coal)... also the nuclear would bite into the gas as well. By now if done right, it'd be entirely solar, wind, & nuclear.

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