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by polotics 2533 days ago
Hallo Leute. Believe me I would really like nothing more than for you to be right when you write:it worked The share of renewables may have risen, but at huge costs, and most importantly the installed capacity of non renewable plants has not been reduced, mostly because of intermittency of renewables. The net result: all the plants, just with lower utilisation. For nuclear this is a tragedy because the marginal costs of production are minimal, lower utilisation just hits profitability, which may indirectly be raising risks. For coal, well just look up how much the Energiewende Germany still mines... More on this here: https://jancovici.com/en/energy-transition/societal-choices/...