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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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[โ€“] Comment105@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unironically the German position right now. They're hardcore coal fans, they're the Appalachia of Europe.

For largely the same reasons. It's a hard sell to a mining town to stop being a mining town.