Climate change is inconsequential (because Peak Oil is a bigger issue)

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fatslob-:O said:

Mnementh said:

Well, germany is certainly not deindustrialized and had 35% of electric power generated by renewable sources in 2018: https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/index.php?article_id=29&fileName=20181214_brd_stromerzeugung1990-2018.pdf

I can't exactly read German but if it's electric power, then that seems feasible but the figures look somewhat dire when we measure total energy consumption instead ... (heating, transportation, other industrial/agricultural utilities, etc)

Basically, even after a concerted effort from Germany to transition to renewable energy they've only been able to raise the share of renewable's by a meager ~3% over the past 7 years from 2010 and their citizens are paying the price for it ... 

Germany's model is hardly the decisive one to emulate ... 

Just fyi about his link is that over 35% of power generation is now from renewable sources, and Germany is also exporting an ever increasing of power. I have another source here, more up to date and in english for you. It also gives you the detail of every power source: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/en/documents/publications/studies/Stromerzeugung_2017_e.pdf

Heating is mostly done by natural gas in Germany and german car manufacturers were notoriously against the car electrification, bringing that whole mix down.

But since they announced a couple weeks ago that they changed their minds and will go all in in electric cars, that will already create a nice bump upwards.

Main problem stays with the heating, as electric heaters are considered unsafe and thus very frowned upon. And I don't think that will change anytime soon. Still, I expect them to hit over 25% by 2030

Germany is exporting over 50TWh, so why is the power in the  neighboring countries not nearly as high? Because the high price boils down to just pure greed from the suppliers, gouging the customers. Sure, they have to pay a fixed amount per KWh to anybody who has solar cells and puts their power into the grid, but that shouldn't rise the price anything near the 30% like they did. They use it basically to compensate for their loss of the atomic power plants in the short term in Germany. Case of point: Luxembourg gets almost all it's power from Germany, but they only pay half as much per kWh.