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Germany begins dismantling wind farm for coal (euobserver.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
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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.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago

Correct. You can add the vastly underestimated methane emissions of natural gas to that. (They are hard to measure but nobody seems toooo interested)

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