#Energiewende be like:

— Mom, why is school and trains not working?
— It's the weather to blame!

> In the first half of 2021, coal shot up as the biggest contributor to Germany's electric grid, while wind power dropped to its lowest level since 2018. Officials say the weather is partly to blame.

https://m.dw.com/en/germany-coal-tops-wind-as-primary-electricity-source/a-59168105

@kravietz its all fun and giggles as long as factories are working

@xue

They won't stop working - this is precisely why Germany has been continuously increasing its fossil gas import capabilities.

German politicians *do* realize the country can't run on renewables alone, *and* because the vocal minority wants nuclear shut down, the country *must* run on fossil fuels. This is literally what Merkel said in 2019 (see below).

@kravietz @xue mhh slightly have to disagree. germany did butcher their green energy the last years. the wind energy is on a low but not the problem to blame.

quitting nuclear power is in germany a majority

one of the german statistics is from (https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/196207/umfrage/meinung-zum-gebrauch-von-atomenergie-in-deutschland/)

it shows 5% are absolutly pro nuclear power, 16% more in favour, 36% more against and 40% strictly against. 3% have no opinion

stopping nuclear is politcally the popular move

it is problematic though to botcher nuclear power, wind energy and solar energy. the county can be run very well on renewable energy. solar energy

as a matter of fact solar energy is the cheapest energy to produce. though corrupt politicians did botcher it.

the colorful statistic shows cost to produce 1 kwh in cents

yellow is solar, dark blue is water, wind is light blue gray, green biogas, orange is nucular, brown coal brown, coal black and the last weird red/wine/whatever color is gas. solar is in 3 categoroes. small roofs, big roofs and not on the roof. so even putting solar energy on big roofs is cheaper than gas. but many politicians got bought by big coal and gas companies. well thats why they probably will not get reelected now

@khaosgrille @xue

So the argument "all would be fine if THEY just allowed us to install more wind and solar" is a fallacy. You simply have days and weeks, when there is very little wind and solar, and regardless of how much PV panels and wind turbines you install, they simply won't produce any energy.

Also "THEY" are German citizens who simply don't want vast areas of land turned into industrial landscape of massive PV and wind farms. These are *residential* protests that slowed down new RE.