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Growth in german wind capacity is slowing. Soo... then the plan is to keep on with lignite and gas? Am I missing something?

Installed Wind Capacty - Germany

German Wind Capacity

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[-] mayo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No that claim isn't backed up by any sources I could find. Sounds fringe attitude to me. It's a good thing that people study this as their job and advise the legislative branch because it's complicated. When I looked up the levelized* cost of energy I had a hard time finding sources that agreed with each other. In particular, the nuclear societies were skewing the data, but the same with certain German think tanks claiming the exact opposite. Debate all around. Hydro FTW.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph241/wang-k2/

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_plants

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