• knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Germany theoretically has somewhere between 30-50% of its electricity needs covered by renewables, but grid scale storage isn’t feasible and baseload sources are all being shut down for various political and environmental reasons (nuclear, coal, gas). Germany has been building out renewable energy faster than any other capitalist country that doesn’t have access to easy hydroelectric capacity, and it’s not even close to enough. It also ignores the primary energy and raw materials needs of industry (steel and fertilizer for example). Energiewende has been a failure, both in terms of ROI and GHG emission reductions.

    Angway, it’s too late now. Europe’s economy is fucked and it’s not about to recover without a couple revolutions.

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      2 years ago

      but grid scale storage isn’t feasible

      not true