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NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Germany set to miss net zero by 2045 target as climate efforts falter

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Germany set to miss net zero by 2045 target as climate efforts falter

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NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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German goals to cut greenhouse emissions by 65% by 2030 are likely to be missed, meaning a longer-term net zero by a 2045 target is also in doubt, reports by government climate advisers and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) show.
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    That’s basically what Germany did. They recently shut down their nuclear plants and restarted their coal plants.

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      And yet coal power production is practically at the lowest level ever (except for corona months 03/20 and 04/20)

      https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=de&c=DE&chartColumnSorting=default&year=-1&month=-1&stacking=stacked_absolute×lider=1&legendItems=000001010000000000000

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        Germany still has a very long way to go to be carbon neutral.

        Almost 79% of its primary energy consumption is fossil fuel. 17% is renewable.

        For comparison in France 46% of the primary energy consumption is fossil fuel, 14% renewable and 40% nuclear.

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          Look at the industry’s growth in France though. Renewables has been growing at the expense of nuclear. This is happening in Germany as well.

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      That is just blatant misinformation. Name one single coal plant that has been restarted since nuclear power was phased out.

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        https://www.dw.com/en/germany-reactivates-coal-fired-power-plant-to-save-gas/a-62893497

        The Mehrum plant in Hohenhameln and the Heyden plant in Petershagen (whose operation has been extended).

        Unless your nitpick is that these were started before the final nuclear shutdown, but I never said otherwise, only that both things happened recently.

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      Wow… Where have I read that lie before? Oh, yeah. 20 times in this thread already, because you all get your alternative reality sppon-fed by the same lobbyists.

      Actual reality:

      The “massive” amount of nuclear shut down

      The “coal” that replace nuclear

      The actual historic low of coal use

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      The actual problem was stopping to fund solar, smashing a hundred thousand jobs in renewables under the pretense of “saving workers”. ~20k jobs in coal heroically saved.

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        But they could easily do it (and get paid by fossil fuel lobbyists) because the discussion is completely twisted anyway. And most constructive discussion of the topic will be drowned in fairy tales about renewables not working, nuclear being our only savior and other bullshit.

        Basically this whole thread is a perfect example. We discuss electricity production because that’s the direction the nuclear social media cult is pushing every discussion into…

        The actual report linked in this thread is for a German report of construction and traffic sectors not meeting their emission reduction goals… and I’m pretty sure neither coal nor nuclear is used to power cars nowadays. And the electrification bottle neck for transport is the production pace of electric cars, their still too high prize, limits on loading infra-structure etc., not actually energy per se.

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          Thank you for debunking this nuclear fanboy bullshit that gets repeated all the time.

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