At this hour, German electricity comes in at 420 g CO2/kwh; France 101 g CO2/kwh overall and...

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19. Yeah, this is the first time they've been under 200% worse than France in weeks.

They're only 178% worse than France in "percent talk."

Great. They're still burning coal and dumping the waste in the planetary atmosphere because they shut perfectly operable nuclear plants.

It's time, I'd guess, for all the "I'm not an anti-nuke" anti-nukes to start cheering about how wind energy will save the world by assuming that every day in Germany will be like today.

The Germans are producing "only" 7.1 GW of power from coal, probably lignite because that's the fuel for which Germans tear the shit out of their country to get.

It's time to call up the Lancet figures for deaths caused by various forms of reliable energy.

Anil Markandya, Paul Wilkinson, Electricity generation and health, The Lancet, Volume 370, Issue 9591, 2007, Pages 979-990.

Here's table 2:

At 32.6 deaths per GWh for lignite, the German nuclear phase out would "only" be killing 5.6 people per day if the wind kept blowing like today, which annualizes out to "only" around 2000 deaths per year; for hard coal, at 24.5 deaths per GWh, "only" around 1500 deaths per year annualized. Of course, as noted elsewhere during the recent weeks of Dunkelflaute, the death rate was much higher, but let's all think happy thoughts and happily dream of happy slaves digging cobalt for batteries to make all those Germans "green."

To produce 7.1 GW of "too dangerous" nuclear power, the death rate according to the Lancet figures, our German friends would have led to the deaths on average of 0.089 Europeans per day, annualized out to an average of 3.2 deaths per year.

But, you know those happy Germans, they've declared with a certainty worthy of a Donald Trump that nuclear energy, as opposed to lignite, is "too dangerous."

Climate change isn't "too dangerous" in Germany it appears.

For the last twenty years here I've been hearing how wonderful so called "renewable energy" is, especially from people who want to tell me all about Three Mile Island and insurance policies, Three Mile Island being the reactor that then President Jimmy Carter visited during the accident there 42 years ago, 25 years after he went directly into a melted core at the NRX reactor in Ontario. (It will kill him someday, I'm sure.) People love to talk about Three Mile Island. And Chernobyl. And Fukushima. They don't give a fuck about how many people die every damned day from air pollution not limited to climate change while we all wait in Godotian expectation for the grand "renewable energy" nirvana that didn't come, isn't here, and won't come.

So called "renewable energy" was never about climate change though, was it? We spent over 3.2 trillion dollars on this temporary future electronic waste between 2004 and 2019 to obtain the following result for carbon dioxide concentrations in the planetary atmosphere:

Week beginning on January 30, 2022: 419.19 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 416.89 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 393.28 ppm
Last updated: February 7, 2022

Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide Observatory Weekly Data (Accessed 2/7/22)

That 10 year increase, 25.91 ppm higher than ten years ago is the third highest recorded out of 1,147 data points going back 21 years. The 52 week running average of these figures for 10 year increases has now reached 24.65 ppm/10 years, 2.46 ppm/year. For the week beginning January 1, 2000, the same figure was 15.26 ppm/10 years, 1.53 ppm/year.

You got to love that "not too dangerous" so called "renewable energy," in the days of the celebration of the lie.

Thanks for checking in to let me know the spectacular results of Germany reducing the number of people it kills each day by burning coal to "only" 40% (in percent talk) of the number of people it was killing each day of Dunkelflaute over the last two weeks.

I'm sure everyone is very impressed. I know I am. How I'm impressed is for other people to guess. I know how I take it.

Congratulations all around.