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by mschuster91 2605 days ago
Our coal infrastructure is on the way to be phased out, it won't be around for long-term any more - the Kohlekommission proposed 2035-2038 for the final shutdown, with 12.5 GW of 42.6 GW capacity going offline until 2022 (per https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2019-01/kohlekommission-kohle...).

What's left will be gas and renewables.

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It is planned to be phased out. Just like nuclear. That means that within 15 years Germany will have to replace roughly 70 % of its constant energy sources (nuclear and coals) by the only scalable constant energy source left: gas. Thereby becoming completely reliant on gas from Russia. Creating a massive geopolicital risk that didn't exist previously.

http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/201...

I'll believe it when I see it. Also. What problem exactly is that supposed to solve?

I thought the whole energiewende stunt was about decreasing CO2 emissions. I'm not seeing this.

>by the only scalable constant energy source left: gas.

What makes you think coal and nuclear are scalable? Gas has been the only option from the start and simply switching from coal to gas already results in a 50-60% CO2 reduction.

> Thereby becoming completely reliant on gas from Russia.

While currently most imports are from Russia,thereā€˜s an effort to start building LNG terminals to be able to import from the US.

https://www.reuters.com/article/germany-lng/update-1-germany...

Part of this is appeasement to the US but it is a good backup to have.