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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

next up: zero teslas.

if germans chose a route, they, walk. (ww2, manufacturing cars, end of nuclear power..)

so fuck you elon. we hate you so much.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I wish people would stop conflating energy with electricity.

So Germany had ⅔ of it's electricity from renewables, but still has gas for warming homes, petrol for cars, diesel for trucks, and so on.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago (3 children)

That's fair, but it's still a very relevant metric. It shows the automatic transition made in electrification when people switch over to heat pumps, electric stoves or EVs.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

You're right, but if you read beyond the title it's clearly stated that it's about electricity generation.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

One of the nicer upshots of cutting the cord with Russia is the sky high price of electricity incentivizing big investments in renewable energy.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

For anyone who is interested in a detailed view of these stats worldwide in real time and cross-border with carbon intensities and individual breakdowns by electricity source: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (8 children)

WTF is Australia doing? Aren't they aware they have plenty of sunshine and an insanely long shoreline?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago

Australia is just an oil company, a coal company, and a mining company disguised as a trench coat. The Liberal party (essentially just American Republicans opposed to guns) spent 2 decades killing any green energy initiatives in favor of fracking the Outback

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

IIRC Australia mines a huge amount of coal

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Shame, innit? They could be the n1 Solar panel producers per capita and panel exporters...oh well. This is why the charge against fossil fuels has to be led by net consumers (in the name of defense against geopolitical risk) and the producers will inevitably reduce extraction for export...but local consumption of coal probably will never disappear completely unless locals complain about air pollution and lag in exportable tech.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Really cool. Thanks for the share. Also quite depressing, most countries (even rich ones who have like triple responsibility) are barely even trying.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, the USA is 24%-ish renewables and 60%-ish fossil fuels. Damn fossil fuel industry and anti-progress politicians.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Biomass may well be renewable, but I still don't think it counts as green.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nice graph with no freaking labels.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (20 children)

They used to have nuclear too

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I love that chart you can't read.

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