www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-07/german-aluminum-smelter-halves-output-on-soaring-energy-costs
As a result, germany is actually closing down wind farms and opening coal mines
https://balkangreenenergynews.com/wind-farm-in-germany-is-being-dismantled-to-expand-coal-mine/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/10/28/the-iron-law-of-electricity-strikes-again-germany-re-opens-five-lignite-fired-power-plants/?sh=3f0be3d73d0c
So in general, yeah, you can make your population suffer while you follow
energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-new-coal-power-plants-per-week-in-2022/).
In the same year, [China added 125GW of new solar and wind power](https://balkangreenenergynews.com/solar-wind-power-almost-all-households-in-china-in-2022/).
While the US is investing about $141 billion in new renewable energy, [China has invested a whopping
tkyjonathan t1_ixvnitl wrote
Reply to comment by SilverNicktail in U.S. Renewable Energy Will Surge Past Coal and Nuclear by Year’s End by VanillaSwimming5699
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-07/german-aluminum-smelter-halves-output-on-soaring-energy-costs As a result, germany is actually closing down wind farms and opening coal mines https://balkangreenenergynews.com/wind-farm-in-germany-is-being-dismantled-to-expand-coal-mine/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/10/28/the-iron-law-of-electricity-strikes-again-germany-re-opens-five-lignite-fired-power-plants/?sh=3f0be3d73d0c So in general, yeah, you can make your population suffer while you follow