Renewables are providing a whopping 5% of German electricity. (Biomass doesn't count). Still want to close those nuclear plants?
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@sideen_dan
To my mind power figures are useless. Need energy outputs over an adequate period. One year would be good.
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@sideen_dan
The dumb part is that a lot of windturbines are turned of regulary. The percentage of renewables could be much higher if the german politicians would stop saving coal for no economical reason at all.
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@TFaulersack
I think you'll find that wind turbines are only turned off when there is too much power. Grids require a substantial amount of rotating inertia to maintain stability & only coal, gas or nuclear can provide that
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@sideen_dan
Biomass isn't renewable?
That's a surprise to biomass! Are you saying all life on earth is a one shot deal?
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@25_cycle
Assuming that the forests are replanted, wood pellets will eventually repay their carbon debt. But considering the energy used to harvest, transport,chop up, process & dry, it will be a long time. Time we may not have.
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@sideen_dan
Not only that but it has cost them a half a trillion to get there, and they have 2-3X the electricity costs we do in North America. The poor are really loving it I bet.
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@sideen_dan
The burning of
#biomass
emits more CO2 than the burning of
#coal
. There’s nothing
#green
about
#biomass
.
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@sideen_dan
Yikes, hopefully there's no plan to use whale oil either. I don't think I've ever seen Germany green on the map and I check regularly. "Doing it right" without nuclear seems to take a long time, produce much pollution and demonstrably limits people's lives.
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@sideen_dan
Haven’t heard of any reprieve for nuclear. Lost MWs may be supplied by coal if gas supply/cost doesn’t improve. Don’t know if nuclear can be ‘mothballed’ for saner minds or shut down is terminal.
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@sideen_dan
Dan. Yes. We need an honest discussion on nuclear. Without it to date our 1.5 degree GHG budget might already be broken
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@sideen_dan
yes. Because we still haven't solved the problem with radioactive waste, and we can always build more windmills.
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