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Live your best life Germany, don't let the haters tell you otherwise

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[–] Ooops@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You mean other countries like the UK burning gas in a gas crisis and now opening new gas and oil drilling? Or countries like France who restarted their coal power plants about a year ago as a reserve should they not manage to bring all reactors back online in time. Or Ireland running on gas, coal and even oil? Or Poland (mostly coal)? Or Czechia with coal and nuclear but zero renewables because that doesn't fit with the nuclear agenda? Or Slovakia (nuclear and imported coal power from Poland)?

Are these the numerous countries you are talking about? Countries btw that don't actually have a grid... it's all one grid. Guess who they all fall back to in emergencies? Yes, not France who can only export a steady amount of excess energy in warm months but the other big electricity exporter in Europe.

The only countries with an actual working plan are the lucky ones with massive hydro potential. All the others are failing. Those with a reneable plan because they are drowned in propaganda and those with a nuclear plan because they lie to themselves and don't build even close to enough nuclear power to ever base their electricity production on it. But that's okay. In 20, 30 or 50 years they can still all get their deficit covered by imports because nobody actually has a choice with a connected European grid or everything breaks. With some good lobbying they might even force Germany to still burn fossil fuels for them while pointing fingers.