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Share of nuclear and renewables:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nuclear-renewables-electr...

Note that the bulk of those renewables is hydropower, which is geographically dependent.

And these undersell it as they combine hydro (which has been broadly flat for decades) with solar and wind, which have been growing exponentially.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?time...

Too bad that doesn't materialize in reality as seen in the EU

Those are the share of nuclear and renewables in total electricity production, therefore this is quite real. In which way 'electricity production' isn't real, or not helping to reduce greenhouse-gas effect emissions?

In the real world, the grid got almost shut down by the Russian war and the salvation came from even dirtier gas from the US

What are you even talking about? The electricity grid? The gas grid? If so, whoms? Germany's? The French?

The only grid that got shot up was the Ukrainian one. And even then gas still flowed through to Eastern Europe...

The electricity grid would have been dead without dirty gas import from the US

Again, in which country? Because Germany for sure only mostly uses gas for heating and industrial purposes, not electricity generation (hard to disguish I know, but primary and secondary energy are well explained on wiki).

It's both, it's true that the german industry is the least transitioned but the grid is also using gas as power generation

No, in Europe one of the main importers of this dirtier US gas is... nuclear-hero France! Source: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/open-sourc...

Yes I know, those gas plants were built by Total and Engie as a part of their renewable strategy. The irony is insane here.

Before 2010 and the privatisation of the grid, France only had a single working gas plant on the whole grid and not even connected to the pipelines, it was a plant reusing factory gas. Those gas plants are brand new and there to support the new wind and solar installs.

Check the construction dates here, it's really obvious: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_centrales_thermiqu...

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