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For being unreliable, it's working strangely well and stable. Far better than the fuel-based sources which fail all the time for various reasons.

I guess the parent wanted to say `intermittent`, as opposed to `baseline`.

These are the terms used throughout the industry.

You mean the base load? Yes, that's a common myth. European countries have no problem with their base load, even when depending on wind and solar.

The proof of the contrary is the "smart" meter in your home that reports real-time stats to the grid operator.

You just take the hard work of grid operators, ENTSO-E and everyone in-between and in the adjacent industries for granted.

Unreliable and intermittent aren't the same?

As in "intermittent fault." Hardest to debug.

Username checks out :))

I'm obsessed with that fairy tale.

Bunch of drunk dudes and dudettes blew up a deep gas line while cavorting on a yacht.

It's almost as if they're mocking our intelligence.

Almost as if you had different groups of flawed humans with different visions, beliefs and goals trying to somehow govern the country. It’s not like other countries are always acting rationally…

Getting rid of nuclear was a completely obvious blunder, I don’t think that says much about German people being weird or wanting to get rid of their industry. It was a short-termist political decision

Germany is run by very strange people.

People who want to cling on to fossil fuels from other countries.

It's almost as if they want to be dependent.

All politicians simply psychopaths, or do they have to become psychopaths as they rise to power.

They do, literally and explicitly so. Yes, really.

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