• jagermo@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    You know what would actually help more than these straw arguments? Upgrading the fucking grid.

    Bavaria alone was unable to distribute 1 Twh of solar energy in 2024, because the grid is still neither flexible nor strong enough.

    Source: SZ (paywall), Bundesnetzagentur Smard

    And that is even without the energy produced from the wind farms.

    Before we drop Millions (let’s be realistic, Billions) into a technology that will be ready in 10+ years and bind us to a supplier from a country probably ending with *stan (supply chain risk, anyone?) and ignore the unsolved trash issue, maybe take the money to upgrade the existing grid and move to a decentralized, locally produced energy system that can’t be taken out with a 5k drone…

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      The grid is getting upgraded. If you take a look at all those big projects like those north south lines, they are currently in construction and will be finished in the next few years.

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      “But, but my beautiful lobbyists told me put my hand up and ruin my country!”