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Storage helps even out spikes.

In Germany: probably not so much when wind and PV aren’t busy for a month straight and we still need to keep our industry up and running.

We’ll, I’ll take that back - we probably solved all that by running our economy into the ground

> In Germany: probably not so much when wind and PV aren’t busy for a month straight and we still need to keep our industry up and running.

Please do go ahead and show some data on when we had a month long solar eclipse without wind.

https://www.tech-for-future.de/dunkelflaute/

A couple of weeks happen from time to time

Pursuing an industrial strategy predicated on eternal cheap Russian gas (a strategy no doubt encouraged by Russian influence post-GDR) left Germany vulnerable to this situation. It is indeed admirable that they are willing to give it up now for principals, unlike Orban and Hungary.

Yeah, well, it was also very much “get rid of nuclear” that accelerated this path.

Allegedly the Russians also heavily encouraged the German Green movement to go hard against nuclear energy.

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