[looping__lui]

Industrialized countries generally need stability when it comes to electricity. People also want to watch TV whenever they like and take a hot shower whenever they feel like it.

[ericd]

The hot shower thing is an interesting example, since the tanked ones generally have a lot of flexibility in when they heat the water.

[nicoburns]

Some things need reliable, dispatchable, energy. But a lot of demand could (and probably should) be shifted to when energy is abundant.

[looping__lui]

In an industrialized country like Germany - not really. You’d be surprised how little day/night affect our electricity consumption…

[stuaxo]

Storage helps even out spikes.

[looping__lui]

In Germany: probably not so much when wind and PV aren’t busy for a month straight and we still need to keep our industry up and running.

We’ll, I’ll take that back - we probably solved all that by running our economy into the ground

[Sabinus]

Pursuing an industrial strategy predicated on eternal cheap Russian gas (a strategy no doubt encouraged by Russian influence post-GDR) left Germany vulnerable to this situation. It is indeed admirable that they are willing to give it up now for principals, unlike Orban and Hungary.

[looping__lui]

Yeah, well, it was also very much “get rid of nuclear” that accelerated this path.

[Sabinus]

Allegedly the Russians also heavily encouraged the German Green movement to go hard against nuclear energy.

[ViewTrick1002]

> In Germany: probably not so much when wind and PV aren’t busy for a month straight and we still need to keep our industry up and running.

Please do go ahead and show some data on when we had a month long solar eclipse without wind.

[looping__lui]

https://www.tech-for-future.de/dunkelflaute/

A couple of weeks happen from time to time

[mrtksn]

Yes that's what nuclear and storage helps with