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Andrew M. writes Chadvesting, a personal blog at chadvesting.substack.com about economics and science. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Common misconceptions about Germany's energy transition”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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Why HN links it

Only one comment, in a thread on Japan and US nuclear reactor cooperation, which points to a different article on Germany's energy transition and does not discuss this blog's writing.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Common misconceptions about Germany's energy transition
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. You may want to read something like "Common misconceptions about Germany's energy transition"[0] for a fuller picture of the situation there. In particular, it points out that between 2002 and 2021: "both hard and lignite [coal usage] decreased from 251.9 TWh to 146.5 TWh for a reduction of 109.4 TWh. So Germany reduced both coal and nuclear at the same time, coal did not grow, and the coal reduction was actually la…

    Comment linking /p/common-misconceptions-about-germanys

    on “Japan, US to step up cooperation in developing next-generation nuclear reactors”
  2. Submitted Common misconceptions about Germany's energy transition as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Energy density is not the driver of energy transitions, cost is as a story · 6 points

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  4. Submitted Common misconceptions about Germany's energy transition as a story · 4 points

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