...where that country is not burning dangerous fossil fuels and dumping the waste directly into the planetary atmosphere and are storing pure excess so called "renewable energy."
I look at this map frequently to obviate my disgust with Energiewende and I've never, not once, seen it.
I've seen plenty of insipid remarks on this website over the last 19 years, where the selective attention crowd picks out a 20 or 30 minute period, usually when demand is extremely low, where solar and wind are producing almost 100% of the energy in some locality, crowing insipidly, while ignoring the other 23 hours and 40 or 30 minutes where fossil fuels are being burned.
If some 20 minute period ever exists where this happens, computers all over the world will gear up to shout about it, as they did recently in the case of California.
Even the cheering for solar and wind, never mind the production of energy itself, requires fossil fuels.
I have never seen this obscene inattention to reality with respect to Germany. Not once. And let's be clear, because it would be an extremely rare event, it would be international news.
It's discussed to a limited extent that the Germans are working to kill Switzerland's glaciers.
It follows that they are storing energy that is generated using dangerous fossil fuels.
Since advocates of the expensive, grotesquely failed "renewables will save us" scheme have contempt for science, science being engaged with reality, they routinely demonstrate contempt for the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
One would need to be a stupid as an anti-nuke to not understand how hydrostorage works. I certainly don't need it described. I only note that since the energy stored is generated using dangerous fossil fuels in Germany, the filling of hydrostorage facilities is destructive, not only to the vast river basin that can store as much energy as a kg of plutonium, but to the atmosphere as well.
The fact that people cherry pick to praise the wasting of energy as if it were clean and green is why we have seen an increase of nearly 50 ppm in the concentrations of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide while anti-nukes praise the willful destruction of exergy.
The hydrostorage in Germany is obscene, given the reality of energy production in Germany and the fact that storing energy wastes energy. It would be unnecessary if they had not only destroyed their nuclear infrastructure in an orgy of stupidity, but rather had expanded it.
Have a pleasant Saturday.
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