Reply #9: Um. Juergen Trittin has never been too good with numbers.

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Your link dates from 2004.

It was more like 7% of German electricity.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/table63.xls

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/table28.xls

In 2007, Germany is talking about building 26 massive new coal plants, mostly because of the actions of Juergen Trittin, internationally famous asshole.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,472786,00.html

As of 2004, Germany produced 28% of its electricity from nuclear power, which the scientific illiterate Trittin pushed to destroy for arbitrary reasons. Wind and solar cannot (and probably never will) be able to do what nuclear does, provide baseload continuous power, but even if they did, the 20% would mean an 8% increase in the use of dangerous fossil fuels and the generation of dangerous fossil fuel waste.

In fact every single nuclear power plant that has ever been shut by appeals to public ignorance has been replaced by dangerous fossil fuels.

Thanks for the lottery numbers. If I'm still around in 2020 and am not killed by climate change before then, I'll play them.