Climate journalists who write about the German electricity mix and turning off nuclear never write about per person electricity consumption. Your perspective is probably warped as a result.
USA generates ~2500 kWh/person year with coal
Germany generates ~2170 kWh/p.y.
If Americans consumed electricity like Germans, they could shut off every single coal plant AND every single nuclear plant in the country, and still sell 1260 kWh/p.y. excess electricity to Canada and Mexico.
@skyglowberlin they also routinely miss that we've only had a pretty small amount of nuclear electricity in our grid to begin with. Most reactors were shut down many years ago. The remaining three only accounted for 4GW peak. We have added 1.3 GW of wind power in the first half of 2023 alone. (And much more renewable energy leading up to the nuclear exit)
@skyglowberlin (especially in the beginning of 2022) they completely missed where the uranium for our nuclear reactors came from - much of it (don't remember the exact figure, I think roughly a third?) came from Russia.
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