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  • Yes, one can argue that more fossil energy could have been shut down if the nuclear plants had continued operating.

    That said, Nuclear was replaced by renewables. Coal was also replaced by renewables.
    Maybe more coal could have been replaced but claiming that nuclear was replaced with coal is a rhetoric trick but it is literally not true.

    Also these assumptions about replacing coal always seem to come from people who have no idea about the power of the German coal lobby.
    Coal is just about the only natural resource Germany has and is a massive industry.
    The coal exit movement is decades old as well. But as the graphs show it is also glacially slow due to massive lobbying.


  • You original comment was that someone “turned on coal/oil…”
    That statement is factually and demonstrably incorrect.
    Gas was not even part of that original claim but whatever.

    Building capacity as a reserve for peak times is not the same as the plants actually running and producing emissions.
    As the graphs show, the actual production and therefore emissions from fossil sources have gone down. This is what matters in he climate change debate.
    The mere existence of buildings has little to do with the topic at hand.