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by klaustopher 995 days ago
If you look at the real data, you see that the loss of nuclear has nicely been covered by wind and solar: https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...
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If you close a nuclear plant while a non-zero number of fossil fuel plants are still online, you don't care about emissions as much as you claim, regardless of what you replace them with.
Energy is fungible