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Old 4th Jun 2012, 03:01
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German Solar Plants produced a record 22gigawatts of electricity- equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity- through the midday hours of last Friday and Saturday. Now add the power generated by their wind farms.
Also add this, Germany's Govt decided to abandon nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster, closing 8 plants immeadiately and shutting the remaining 9 by 2022. They will be replaced by renewable energy sources.
Conveniently forgetting that they still have 32 coal fired and 2 gas fired stations which carry the base load. Getting rid of nukes is one thing. Generating enough power to keep eveything humming when its night time and there's no wind, is a hugely different animal.
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