Uhh, considering they don't know how many people there are, we don't know either..

Not sure there's much to be done at this point. Germans made their bed and now they'll have to make do. If that means swallowing enough of the countryside to be seen from orbit, then so be it.

As per your edit, you should see how much more power you'd be getting in Arizona.

Also, wind doesn't blow all the time so are you gonna pumped-hydro or lithium-ion your way towards storage? Like, obviously the future of Germany at the moment is lignite..

Lignite, or brown coal, or wet coal, is the worst kind of coal. It's often 20% water by weight and therefore you need a lot of it. Like a lot of coal.

>So why take the risk? Rather shut them down and build renewables

Like fucking lignite? I don't know if you've realized this, but the sun doesn't shine in fucking Germany.

Sure, you can say "we ought to build more renewable energy plants", but that clearly is not what's actually happening. Germany has spent an incredible amount of resources trying to harness wind and sun and rivers and yet its obviously not enough... Hence the mining of lignite and destruction of the villages on top of those sources. You can see at least three giant holes in the ground in Germany from the fucking moon.

All to gather and burn the most dirty source of fuel on this planet.

Not just coal, but lignite coal. There is no dirtier fuel on this planet.

... If you got electricity from nuclear, then you wouldn't need as much electricity from coal you nincompoop.

Not just coal, but fucking lignite coal. There's essentially no dirtier fuel on earth.

Germans decided nuclear power was too dangerous, but they needed electricity so 🤷

But they put up so many solar panels! I can't believe they don't provide enough energy for a country as equitorial and sunny as Germany!

After all, nuclear power is dangerous 🙄

That is literally something only an idiot would say. I could care less.

Serbs better chill, USA likes Kosovo and has some utterly awesome military hardware we've been itching for an excuse to test out on someone. 🤷

Here in South Mississippi it's $0.06 per kWh.