What are they gonna use for power?
- 33% coal - 11% natural gas - 24% wind - 11% solar - 6% nuclear
Nuclear was already winding down with only 6% in 2022. Medium term renewables are growing and will replace it, short term coal and gas.
The economic potential wasted in this country over the past ~30 years by shortsighted political self-sabotage is almost hilarious.
And after 50 years of sub-replacement fertility, now we'll get wrecked even harder by what's going to happen with this graphic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#/med...
Of course, it all comes so suddenly...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/10/28/the-iron...
Longer term, a switch to 100% renewables is planned, which is supposed to take 20 years. However, plans are coming along too slowly, especially regarding storage and transmission lines. But also necessary ramp-up of wind and solar installations is extremely lacking. Meanwhile power prices are at an all-time high and no betterment in sight. Meanwhile a switch to mostly-electric transportation, green steel smelting, green concrete production, and mostly electric heating should happen, which will roughly triple electricity consumption overall.
So I guess we'll wait and see, most probably more of the imported whatever-we-can-get at stellar prices.
How are they gonna do it, by exterminating 50% of the population?