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“Germany could become power independent” and I doubt that. First in general, second on statistics (e.g. produce aluminum and other energy expensive products outside of Germany). But I gave you, for the sake of the argument, that it is possible. You still would have to compensate for ongoing energy demand growth. Be it inside Germany or outside. So your "final target" is an exponential moving target.

" It just has no bearing on a more realistic timeline at stake here." 10-30 years in not long. I claim we are seeing the limits of growth, and the central banking voodoo is a sign of it. And again, if economic growth stops, our economy and society will collapse too. A steady state economy can only work on the industrial level of the Amish people.

https://ourfiniteworld.com/




What statistics? What happens in 10-30 years? You haven’t provided a single data point in the context of this conversation. The graph showing the growth over centuries is logarithmic, so that blue line going a little south is actually a massive deviation from an exponential curve and completely disproves the point.

That article talks about 100-300 years as the first physical limits if you kept this absurd growth rate. This is not going to happen unless we reach the singularity, and then yeah you can talk about Dyson spheres and all. Science fiction, not current concerns.

What’s likely in ten years: Germany uses 70% renewables. The country’s energy consumption is down to 1990 levels. This is what the numbers show.

Worldwide, in the past twenty years, energy use has grown by ~70%, a far cry from the 10x increase per century the article supports. And it’s tightly related to more countries becoming developed - for the developed world the consumption has remained the same, as exemplified by Germany.

You’re really drowning in this blog’s kool-aid, do yourself a favor and find some alternative reading that is a bit less doomsday prophecy like.


"The country’s energy consumption is down to 1990 levels."

Yes, sure. Since they outsourced the energy intensive productions. But since you don't want to understand it, it is meaningless to try to explain it to you.


Again you’re stating something to support your worldview based purely on opinion.

The German Industrial Production Index has been sitting at basically the same levels since 1979, check for yourself.




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