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    1. Maj0r-DeCoverley on

      ##How to read the chart:

      Countries displaying an horizontal cloud are low
      emissions no matter the amount of electricity
      production. High variations in electricity production
      (for instance in France) are explainable by electric
      heating in winter. Also, 2022 was the year France
      did scheduled repairs on its nuclear reactors (which
      means the cloud is larger on the left than for any
      other year).

      Countries with a vertical cloud are highly dependent
      on weather conditions, but not very dependent on
      temperatures. For instance, Poland uses gas for
      heating, which means winter and summer hours
      aren’t very different.

      Countries with a potato cloud have an electricity
      production very dependent both on weather and
      temperature variations. Their relatively low CO2
      emissions hours are negated by the high CO2
      emissions ones.

      Finally, France being the largest
      exporter of electricity means it routinely prevents
      neighboring countries from going higher in terms of C02 intensity of production (while keeping the same
      low c02 intensity of production itself). Which is
      also true for Scandinavia and Switzerland, with
      their mix of nuclear and hydro supplying the more
      weather-dependent countries

    2. No_Zombie2021 on

      I am sorry Germany, but you are smearing brown all over the place.

    3. How much does this data differ if we pick a different year when not suddenly the whole natural gas flow to europe got fked up?

    4. HighDeltaVee on

      2022 is laughably out of date at this point.

      German CO2 dropped over 10% from 2022 to 2023, and another ~8% from 2023 to the end of 2024.

    5. France on its highest production hours had lower emissions than Germany had on its lowest hours of production. Quite embarrasing.

    6. Portugal emits CO2 without producing electricity? Don’t get this chart

    7. Ok-Sentence-8542 on

      Is there a new start for 2024? Actually any year since 2017?

    8. Tldr; poland is innefficient but france is, france uses nuclear and poland uses coal. Those at the bottom left uses mostly renewables.

    9. AdSufficient7791 on

      Only a few countries can generate from hydro 😴
      France is much more impressive.

    10. NoGravitasForSure on

      In that year, Germany had to export large amounts of “dirty” electricity to France because of technical problems with the French NPPs. In the diagram, this is shown as “German” electricity because the diagram shows production, not usage. Neat trick.

    11. SweetDissonance0666 on

      This visualization is bad and manipulative. No normalization at all. What it even means? Countries with smaller area / less people are better? What these dots means?.. yeah, I understand the describtion, but it is weird sampling of data for this type of plot. It is nonsense that only looks interesting but it does not.

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