• redfellow@sopuli.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    Fyi Germany has reintroduced coal plants because of the storage issues.

    They also relied on Russian gas until Gazprom was ordered to cut over half of the gas flow because of Germany aiding Ukraine.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      I don’t think that “reintroduced” is fair wording here. Even if we hadn’t denuclearized, new coal plants would still have been opened. The proportion of coal power to other power also didn’t increase, even in spite of the challenges posed due to Russias war.