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Germany begins dismantling wind farm for coal (euobserver.com)
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German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the Western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Not really. 1/3 of your electricity production today is coal, while your nuclear dropped from 25% in the 90s to zero today. If you kept your nuclear - rather than shutting down your reactors well before the end of their life - you would be burning far less coal

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    you would be burning far less coal

    we might be burning less coal, but how much less in percent? please qualify your statements with sources.
    Also the amount of generated power is different in 1990 to today, so the percentage of nuclear would have dropped anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Most European countries including Germany use less electricity now than in the 90s, so the percentage would have risen if you kept the same output of nuclear power

    Nuclear peaked at 11% in the 90s and is now zero

    You can see an energy mix time series on here-

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?country=~DEU

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