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NNadir

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22. Wow!!!! We're saved!!!! Germany leads the world!!!!! Who cares if they're burning coal???? It's GREEN coal afterall.
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 08:31 PM
Nov 2024

On the other hand, after funding Putin's war with their fossil fuel purchases because they're going "green," it's entirely possible that the per capita consumption is going down because they're shutting plants because of high energy prices owing to stupidity.

Big adjustment! Basf quietly closed 11 factories in Germany and transferred to China for plant investment! (2024)

I hear a lot of tortured rhetoric handed out attempting to justify burning fossil fuels, but this one is highly amusing.

As of this writing, 7:23P EST (US) 11/09/2024, German electricity has a carbon intensity of 594 grams CO2/kWh; in "percent talk," just about 1000% higher than France's 59 grams CO2/kWh.



One way to reduce carbon emissions is to fire people from their jobs and close the plants where they work. It's called "exporting pollution."

It's a widely used shell game.



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Eric Idle on the cross. NNadir Nov 2024 #4
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I've been on DU for almost 22 years. If printed, I could fill a large box with all the soothsaying I've heard... NNadir Nov 2024 #5
Non sequitur OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #6
22 Years ago, you were a true believer in Nuclear Power OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #7
Thank you for claiming that you know better than I do what I was thinking 22 years ago. NNadir Nov 2024 #8
For 22 years, you've discounted anything and everything which was not nuclear fission. OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #9
It's amusing to hear that there are people... NNadir Nov 2024 #10
"Cult Thinking" OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #11
There are no number times that idiotic videos purportedly about myths can be posted that can make 8 + 8 equal 30. NNadir Nov 2024 #12
IEA: World Energy Outlook 2024 - Pathways for the energy mix OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #16
One can look at Table A.1.a on page 296 of the 2024 WEO to see how electricity is generated on this planet. NNadir Nov 2024 #17
IEA: Solar and wind to lead growth of U.S. power generation for the next two years OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #19
Oh wow. More soothsaying. The unit of energy, as people should learn in high school, is the Joule, not the Watt. NNadir Nov 2024 #26
More nonsense OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #27
Really, the claim that the Watt is not a unit of energy is nonsense? NNadir Nov 2024 #28
Global renewables: Pioneering the energy transition DW Documentary OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #3
The "Energy Transition" is a fucking lie; it doesn't exist, and delusional videos can't make it exist. NNadir Nov 2024 #13
As I have said from the beginning of my time on DU Finishline42 Nov 2024 #14
Yes, I know very well what apologists for the German burning of coal in 2024 say. I hear it all the time. NNadir Nov 2024 #15
Eurostat: Renewables take the lead in power generation in 2023 OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #20
IEA: CO2 emissions per capita in Germany OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #21
Wow!!!! We're saved!!!! Germany leads the world!!!!! Who cares if they're burning coal???? It's GREEN coal afterall. NNadir Nov 2024 #22
"It's all ... bullshit with no connection to the reality, typical of the type, delusional and quite toxic." OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #23
The reality is, reported with references, that Germany is deindustrializing because of high energy prices. NNadir Nov 2024 #24
Electricity prices in Germany rose because of fossil fuel prices (not renewables as you imply) OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #25
'Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels' - ? John ONeill Nov 2024 #18
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