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Meanwhile in Germany:

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (30 children)

Good for providing up to date data.

But damn, Germany could have been 65% fossil free if they hadn't closed the nuclear plants prematurely.

Such a waste of carbon budget.

Anyway, you're probably going to have a conservative government again after this one. Hope you don't become the big laggards.

[โ€“] [email protected] 85 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Noooooooo... The decision to get out of nuclear was made over ten years ago. It is done. The last three nuclear plants that shut down this and last year were not serviced, not licensed, had no fuel and no newly trained operators. Stop reviving this debate. What is the real crime here is that the conservative government did next to nothing to push renewables as an alternative. They were bought/lulled by cheap russian gas. Even now, conservative governments in the south and the east of the country refuse to build up renewable energy production for purely ideological reasons. Even if those decisions hurt their own economy.

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