Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest

Post by kiliantics » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 4:20 AM UTC

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I'd call it adequate instead. > I doubt any of the 1M+ pop cities I’ve lived in came anywhere close to that And this sad.

> I'd call it adequate instead. It's above average for sure. As a counterexample, take the city of Münster, which covers twice the area of Freiburg and is often praised as one of the most bike-friendly cities in Germany. It only claims to have 300km of bike lanes. > > I doubt any of the 1M+ pop cities I’ve lived in came anywhere close to that > And this sad. There are a lot of 1M+ cities that have more than that. Jus…

Post by _Microft » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 5:38 PM UTC

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All fair, but 30% is not a small slice. All of that need to be replaced by something else, and the only thing that's quick enough to replace it was fossil fuel. Germany is also not exactly the ideal place for solar power generation. It's still leave people scratching over why you guys ditched nuclear energy. The newer version of nuclear reactors are safer than fossil when you factor in pollution, and EU itself has ex…

German nuclear power was not replaced by fossil fuel, but by renewables. For this year so far, 54% of the German electricity came from renewables, 12% nuclear, 21% coal. Solar alone has eclipsed nuclear with 13%. The installed solar peak capacity is 48 GW, wind is 60 GW, on windy days the production of wind power alone eclipses French nuclear output. Solar peaked at 27 GW at noon today.