Germans could be ‘left without a country’ soon – Trump

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[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's going to be a rough winter.

Germany is a net power exporter, but those exports are about a quarter of what they generate from natural gas. And the renewables that make up about as much production as fossil fuels are predominantly solar and onshore wind. Which means that their pumped hydro storage will be strained.

I don't get to how that wipes the biggest economy in Europe off the map though. And they are getting nowhere near 72% of their energy from Russia. It's been much closer to 0% since the shutting down of Nord Stream 1 pipeline.

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Germany is a net power exporter

This Wikipedia article says they re-export natural gas, and sell electricity they produce to other countries, but they're heavily dependent on outside sources of coal, natural gas, and oil. "In 2021, Germany imported 63.7% of its energy."

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Right. I could have been clearer. When I said "power", I meant electricity. "Energy" includes transportation and non-electricity industrial energy. And there's not a lot of oil wells in Germany.