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Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-May-2022 17:42:14 UTC Christian Horn

http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/earthquake/201103-eastjapan/energy/electrical-japan/
has a great overview of Japans power plants.
Click with left onto the characters saying ここをクリックするとマップを表示します to see the map.
火力 means that coal/gas are burned, Tokyo is surrounded by ~20 of these power plants..
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- Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-May-2022 17:53:55 UTC Bernie
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  @globalc Also, 水力 is hydroelectric, 原子力 (げんしりょく) is nuclear and 太陽光 (たいようこう) is solar.
  
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- Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-May-2022 17:58:19 UTC Bernie
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  @globalc I didn't expect #Japan to be still so dependent on fossil energy :-(
  140,713.9 MW coal
  49,110.0 MW nuclear
  35,787.4 MW solar
  29,727.6 MW geothermal?
  22,692.8 MW hydroelectric
  4,699.0 MW wind
  
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- penguin42 (penguin42@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Friday, 06-May-2022 08:03:17 UTC penguin42
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  @codewiz @globalc Don't forget they pulled back from Nuclear a lot after Fukashima.
  
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- Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 06-May-2022 08:03:48 UTC Bernie
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  @penguin42 @globalc Yeah, but coal... 😞
  Here's how Germany is phasing out both nuclear and fossil fuels:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany
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  1. Electricity sector in Germany
    
    Germany's electrical grid is part of the Synchronous grid of Continental Europe. In 2020, due to COVID-19 conditions and strong winds, Germany produced 484 TW⋅h of electricity of which over 50% was from renewable energy sources, 24% from coal, and 12% from natural gas. This is the first year renewables represented more than 50% of the total electricity production and a major change from 2018, when a full 38% was from coal, only 40% was from renewable energy sources, and 8% was from natural gas.Germany's installed capacity for electric generation increased from 121 gigawatts (GW) in 2000 to 218 GW in 2019, an 80% increase, while electricity generation increased only 5% in the same period.Even though renewables production increased significantly between 1991 and 2017, fossil power production remained at more or less constant levels. In the same period, nuclear power production decreased due to the phase-out plan, and much of the increase in renewables filled the gap left behind by closing nuclear power plants. However 2019 and 2020 saw significant reductions in electricity generation from fossil fuel, from 252 TW⋅h in 2018 to 181 TW⋅h...
- Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 06-May-2022 08:03:54 UTC Bernie
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  @penguin42 @globalc Yeah, but coal... 😞
  Here's how Germany is phasing out both nuclear and fossil fossil fuels:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany
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  1. Electricity sector in Germany
    
    Germany's electrical grid is part of the Synchronous grid of Continental Europe. In 2020, due to COVID-19 conditions and strong winds, Germany produced 484 TW⋅h of electricity of which over 50% was from renewable energy sources, 24% from coal, and 12% from natural gas. This is the first year renewables represented more than 50% of the total electricity production and a major change from 2018, when a full 38% was from coal, only 40% was from renewable energy sources, and 8% was from natural gas.Germany's installed capacity for electric generation increased from 121 gigawatts (GW) in 2000 to 218 GW in 2019, an 80% increase, while electricity generation increased only 5% in the same period.Even though renewables production increased significantly between 1991 and 2017, fossil power production remained at more or less constant levels. In the same period, nuclear power production decreased due to the phase-out plan, and much of the increase in renewables filled the gap left behind by closing nuclear power plants. However 2019 and 2020 saw significant reductions in electricity generation from fossil fuel, from 252 TW⋅h in 2018 to 181 TW⋅h...
- Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 06-May-2022 08:10:14 UTC Bernie
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  @penguin42 @globalc Found the equivalent chart for Japan.
  So things seem to be moving in the right direction, just not as fast as Germany:
  
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