[bsaul]

Then why do i keep hearing that germany has been producing a lot more pollution since they stopped nuclear power because of coal and gaz being used as a subsitute source of energy ?

[brazzy]

Because people are misrepresenting facts (aka. lying)

Germany did not stop using nuclear power, it started phasing it out (which had actually been planned long before Fukushima), and has not been producing more pollution because it has in fact been replacing coal and gas as well as nuclear with renewable sources: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

[cygx]

Germany has actually slightly increased its gas usage - though compared to other energy sources, its currently more of a rounding error in magnitude:

                    2002    2018

    Total            503     545

    Coal+Oil         253     205
    Nuclear          156      72

    Gas               40      44
    Biomass            4      45

    Wind+Solar+Hydro  39     177

    Other             10       3

https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&p...

[brazzy]

More significantly, the increase in gas is more than offset by a decrease in coal and oil.

[jhayward]

Right. Quantitatively:

Coal declined by 48 TWh

Gas increased by 4 TWh.

Nuclear declined by 84 TWh.

Renewables picked up the slack by adding 130 TWh of generation.

[cygx]

No idea why you keep hearing that: Failure to meet your reduction goals does not equate an increase in pollution.

https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/38...