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by TheLoafOfBread 1161 days ago
And then we will look into Germany's CO2 per kWh and it is one of the dirtiest in Europe. That's probably because they have so much renewables. Or so little.

I might be lazy, but you are outright dishonest.

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So carbon intensity per kWh of electricity:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electric...

Germany went up last two years, but have otherwise been on a steady decline along with the rest of the continent. In 2011 Germany was at 473 g CO2 per kWh of electricity. In 2022 this was down to 386 g CO2/kWh but went down to 333 g CO2 / kWh in 2020.

I will leave it to you to figure out if there was any world event going on in 2020 which would have made it particularly low (i.e. allowed renewables to take up a greater portion of the electricity production), as well as in 2022 which could make it particularly high.

Your claim was that coal use is going up. Are you finally giving up that claim?

CO2 per kWh is also going down as renewables went up. Also easy to check in the data. You haven't done that either.