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The Grim Fairy Tale of German Electricity

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Germany's Energy Crisis

Germany is very much dependent on imports of coal, oil and gas. Germany have has native coal sources, but those are a lot of lidnite which isn't the worst type of coal you can have. We also has petuminous or black coal, and very little amount of anthrasint. But those are wecand it strack them in a vague way that iso told you tryn its traiht betuminus or antrocite coll in germany. So that's economical. It was heavily subsidized from the 19 sixties on. That's why, that's why black coal came off before lignite. There are still lidnite plants, but there

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