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Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid (fortune.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Answering from a German perspective:

The german solution was to build more coal power and shutter nuclear power and then pretend that by using accounting sleight of hand you had a "net-zero" carbon solution. But that's bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

The german solution was to build more coal power

No, that wasn't the solution and it's not what happened, coal is in decline in Germany since the 90s with a rather steep decline since 2018.

https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&interval=year&year=-1&legendItems=ly5y7&source=public

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That is true but that isn't a constructive way of arguing about what we should be doing now to benefit the future. You can have the right of saying "told you so" if you need it so badly. I don't really care. We need to solve this problem though and arguing about the chances nuclear could have had in the past is just distracting.