Growth in german wind capacity is slowing. Soo… then the plan is to keep on with lignite and gas? Am I missing something?

Installed Wind Capacty - Germany

German Wind Capacity

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    1 year ago

    Tell me how much energy it provides during night and during winter. Thats’s why. Coal plant produces more radioactive waste than nuclear power plant. And that feared CO2 too.

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      1 year ago

      We need to change how power distribution works. That’s just the point. There are easy ways to store power that’s generated by day. And since we don’t just focus on one single renewable energy source, it’s not even half as bad as you’re drawing the picture here.

      Edit: since this is my only comment in here, I also want to point out that the chart is rising last year, I think/hope that it will continue rising. (Until CDU steps in again because people think “Hey there last years were so terrible, everything got more pricy and so on, that’s definitely on SPD, green, FDP, not just a random situation in the Ukraine” and vote for them…)

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      Coal plant produces more radioactive waste than nuclear power plant.

      Tell me you are totally brain-washed without telling me you are totally brain-washed.

      The correct take: Coal plants without any environmental requirements 50-60 years ago release more radiation into the area in the form of fly ash (containing natural amounts of radiation like all earth around you) than the radiation excaping from a modern nuclear power plant through it’s massive concrete hull. And only if we ignore any actual nuclear waste (of which coal plant obviosuly produce zero) pretend that the radiation leaking through is not actually a miniscule share.

      Just the fact that this fairy tale about coal power producing radio activity based on some (already then criticised and flawed) study from the 1970s (and based on even older numbers) is still going around shows how lobbyists have damaged your brains.