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Originally Posted by Thor
Its not an either or proposition, and the few nations that are doing great things like Germany are doing so without harm to their economy, quite often the opposite; plus they will position themselves to be in the leadership of future technology.
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Germany is a terrible example and shows what happens when you let politics and ideology determine electricity generation.
In the last decade or so, all Germany has done is replace CO2-free nuclear and lower CO2 emission natural gas with biomass, wind and solar, while electricity generation from high CO2 emission coal has remained pretty much the same. It's also led to the idiocy of Germany, a relatively high latitude and cloudy country, building up 40 GW of solar capacity which produces less than half the electricity of the 10 GW of nuclear of capacity it still has in 2015.