On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:46:48 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

You might hope, but in reality they have made up for what they have
"turned off" by burning more brown coal. One of the factors that have
been driving their CO2 emissions up.

Are you sure?

This
https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/index.php?article_id=29&fileName=awt_2018_englisch .pdf
shows brown coal/lignite at a fairly constant ~1.5 PJ from 1995 through 2018...


Thomas Prufer

p 5, "Indigenous energy production by energy source"