[mahkeiro]

Germany didn't replace nuclear energy at all. Germany is producing less electricity than when nuclear reactors were running.

[Taig]

And what conclusion do you draw from this, or rather, how is this relevant to this thread?

[ambyra]

By bringing back coal, they killed thousands more of their own people people than if they stayed with nuclear.

Reminds me of my gf who picked cigarettes back up to help her quit vaping.

[mahkeiro]

That this is a big pretend game to make the people responsible of the closing of nuclear power look not that bad in regard of the climate issue. Electricity generation should be increasing as we electrify transportation and heating. If this not what is happening then it means that globally the problem is just displaced. (Which doesn’t work at the planet scale)

[Taig]

Germany has more energy generation capacity installed than it had last year. I certainly wish there would be a push for even more renewable and storage capacity, though. The fact that Germany is generating less energy has nothing to do with the phase out of nuclear though.

[mahkeiro]

Raw energy generation is the bad number if you don’t take into account capacity factor. To replace 1MW of nuclear generation with a capacity factor of 0.9 you need almost 5MW of wind at 0.2. The 21 GW of nuclear energy of 2009 have barely been replaced in 2023 when taking into account the capacity factor.

[MagnumOpus]

> more energy generation capacity installed than it had last year

Nameplate capacity of a new solar plant with a capacity factor of 15% (remember, a cloudy country north of the 50th latitude) is not comparable with nameplate capacity of a well maintained nuclear plant with around 90% capacity factor...