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Originally Posted by JSH
"I quoted right from the charts"
Not quite - at least not the chart you posted. You seem to be adding up Nuclear, Renewables, and Other to get 21% and claiming that is electricity's percentage of Germany's primary energy.
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Originally Posted by JSH
You forgot the other option they are pursuing - renewables. Renewables are by far the fastest growing segment of Germany energy production and currently stand at 33% of total production.
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Whether the percentage of primary energy in Germany that is electrical is 15% or 30% is completely secondary to the important fact that even after the massive $580 Billion build out of solar and wind in Germany, they only account for 4.1% of the primary energy.
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People have been greenwashed by the media to think that we have it made in the face of the approaching reduction in availability of liquid fuel (20 years) by putting up some wind and solar.
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We are nowhere close to replacing all of the energy we use. Thing will be much smaller and simpler in the future.
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I looked at the % of electricity that is solar and wind-22.4%.
And compared it to the % of total primary energy that is solar and wind-4.1%.
To get the percentage of primary energy that is electricity-21.3%
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Feel free to find other sources to check this. Mid 20's is common for most countries. But the important take away is that after an intense and expensive, decades long build out of wind and solar in Germany, it only amounts to 4.1% of total primary energy.
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Solar and wind are not dense enough, soon enough, to seemlesly replace the 17 TeraWatts we are blowing through now. Things will be much smaller and simpler again in the future.
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There are hundreds of pages of good info in the other thread so I don't have to repeat it here.
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https://ecomodder.com/forum/showthre...sts-32842.html
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