Given that Germany is still axing it's nuclear plants despite seeinh the every obvious electricity price increases, and starting to run into blackouts, and that's without any EV mandates, I think this insanity is going to keep growing until you get continent wide blackouts. They're not going to let reality slow them down.
They have already had to increase Coal consumption by 20% to fill the gap
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@Aether @Bro-Drillard @cirnog @Leitis @thatbrickster yeah, germany is totally fucked with the greens in government. nothing is ever done which actually helps the environment, it's only a new way to rake in sweet sweet money.
renewables are a pretty nice idea in general, but require decentralized systems. coupling everything for maximum control by our beloved, totally democratic, government is what happens in reality.
Lifestyles have to be radically be changed for them to make sense. For now it's just an LNG trap
@Leitis @Aether @Bro-Drillard @cirnog @thatbrickster sure, lifestyle change is kind of implied by decentral.
there are options for energy storage which are much more ecologically sensible than li-ion cells like salt water batteries or storing it using compressed air, etc. ad inf. those things only are sensible for decentralized use though.
also wind and solar aren't the only thing. you can use manure very effectively to generate methane in bioreactors, which _also_ fixes the nitrate problem we have now. that is technology from the 80s. what happens currently is that we use patented corn grown with artificial fertilizer.
it isn't that there aren't enough good ideas and working solutions, but that politicians in their infinite wisdom sabotage every solution except their favored (read: those which make them money) ones.
