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Solar and wind alone can’t provide 100%. Not yet anyway..

> Successfully

Yet the amount of energy generated by burning coal has only increased.

*https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economic-Sectors-Enterpris...




The data on that link says:

2019: 114.0 + 57.4

2020: 91.7 + 42.8

2021: 110.1 + 54.6

2022: 116.2 + 64.4

When the first wave of decomissions came in 2011, the number was

2011: 150 + 112 [1]

Straight question, to see if you can answer it: is it going up or down? Furthermore, even in the data you are posting, it's going down every year except last. And it went up last year because France's nuclear energy failed and needed to be supported [2].

About 100%: perhaps, but the proof is in the pudding. Historically, the naysayers have been incorrect for decades. Here [3], an advertisement from the German nuclear lobby from the 90s, that makes a case for young people: don't be against nuclear, we need it, renewables can NEVER account for more than 4% of our total production.

Fortunately nobody listened to them.

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/156695/umfrag...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/even-crisis-germany-...

[3] https://twitter.com/wolfibey/status/1370115862523416577


Cannot answer the question.




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