You aren't remembering right.
Germany now burns less coal than at any time when they had nuclear power.
Germany, despite being a smaller country and further from the equator, gets a higher % of electricity from renewables than Australia does!
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2025/public-electricity-generation-2024-renewable-energies-cover-more-than-60-percent-of-german-electricity-consumption-for-the-first-time.html
Germany now burns less coal than at any time when they had nuclear power.
Germany, despite being a smaller country and further from the equator, gets a higher % of electricity from renewables than Australia does!
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2025/public-electricity-generation-2024-renewable-energies-cover-more-than-60-percent-of-german-electricity-consumption-for-the-first-time.html
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no that is you who not getting it right and put up some graph that only analyze renewable sources
Majority of generation in Germany are still fossils. Now compare it to France which got into NPPs early and how much less CO2 they emited for all these years.
You couldn't win that argument, so you switched to 2 countries that aren't Australia.
I never switched anything, I am comparing apples to apples: 2 neighboring similar-sized EU countries without their own oil&gas solving their electricity generation, one with a "nuclear derangement syndrome" affecting their policies, and the other - open minded.
One was burning imported oil for electricity when the 70s Oil Crisis hit.
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Different resources -> different historical decisions.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/france-agrees-issue-edf-with-preferential-loan-six-nuclear-reactors-2025-03-17/
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/renewable-energy-received-record-subsidies-in-2024/?__cf_chl_tk=gvowuxbriiojiwechg83l3fvwk9hlwx6cb7pskmt.xa-1742345513-1.0.1.1-xdzr1fujkrfdlmjktw5uz6hsc000g6uqz3ghrqkvt5g
Nuclear + Wind + Solar = 0 emissions;
Coal + Gas + Wood + Wind + Solar = a lot of emissions.
If Germany had kept nuclear, there wouldn't have been as much need to push renewables.
Might have stayed nuclear+coal forever.
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Trying to make a point with graphs that end in 2017 and 2018 !!!