Okay, so three things here:

1. You just changed the subject. Nothing you said there has any bearing on whether or not it's a good idea to move subsidies from day-to-day batteries towards week-scale battery storage. In fact, you complaining that they have to compete with gas plants is more of a reason to subsidize them, not less. Gas plants can't outcompete batteries on day-to-day trading anyways, with or without subsidies. It's only at the week-scale that things get competitive.

2. We should absolutely not be burning coal instead of gas. Coal should be phased out.

3. These gas plants do burn biomass. Germany harvests and purifies methane from biomass, and mixes it into the fossil derived gas that powerplants burn. that's one of the primary ways that biomass contributes to the grid. Also, these gas plants don't even represent an increase in overall gas plants. Older less efficient gas plants are being decomissioned and newer gas plants are replacing them.

It's fine if you don't like the current government, I don't like them either, but this habit where people just reflexively assume that literally everything they do is stupid and evil is not helpful.

What's wrong with that? The entire point of subsidies it to encourage people to do something that's not currently very economical.

Day-to-day selling of storage is extremely profitable without any subsidies already, so why should it be subsidized? The only thing blocking the addition of more day-to-day storage facilities is the process of actually applying for a grid hookup because there's simply too many people making applications (because its so profitable)

Isn't that kinda what you'd want to see though? I.e. if older less competitive businesses are not able to operate or compete, we don't want them to just hold onto talented people, and we don't want those talented people to be jobless. It's good if those people go and start new, dynamic, competitive companies.

Obviously there's a balance to be found, and we don't want companies to be allowed to just dump employees for no reason every time they hit a hiccup, but Germany has very generous worker protections, and a strong social safety net. It's good to see these people starting new companies.

China manipulates its currency and underpays its workers specifically to avoid that. Their strateigic plan is to keep their currency weak until all western industrial competition is dead, and only then do they jack up prices.

The new electric Polo is at a quite attractive price, and seems to be a fantastic car.

Ups! https://feddit.org/post/30686676/13307760

Ups! https://feddit.org/post/30686676/13307760

Quelle: Selbst zusammengestellt aus Daten von https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm

Entschuldigung für das späte Quellepost, hat gedacht ich hätte es schon gemacht.

Ja, mehr erneubare und nicht genug Batteriespeichern bedeutet mehr Gas nutzung (oder Importe). Es ist auch gut weniger Kohl zu brennen.

Zum gluck ist das ausbau von Batteriespeichern jetzt sehr schnell: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/installed_power/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&legendItems=6w1&interval=month&year=-1

Ja, am anfang das hat mich auch genervt. Nicht sicher ob es eigentlich verbessert später im Video, oder ich war einfach mehr gewöhnt.

Es ist aber seiner 4. Video, also hoffentlich wird er lernen.

6 minutes is the European standard for 'late', and I suspect the article just made a typo and meant to say "only 60% of Deutsche Bahn's long-distance trains arrived five minutes late or less" instead of "only 60% of Deutsche Bahn's long-distance trains arrived less than five minutes late".

However, it's actually a double mistake, because for Fernverkehr (long distance travel), DB actually measures their delays in a totally differnt way from the regional trains. Instead of measuring how late each train is leaving the station, they instead they measure their punctuality based on how late each passenger is arriving at their final destination. This is only possible because people actually buy individual tickets for each journey on an ICE so they're actually able to track this information.

On the per-passenger metric, they say arriving at your final destination less than 15 minutes late is "punctual": https://ibir.deutschebahn.com/2025/de/zusammengefasster-lagebericht/entwicklung-der-geschaeftsfelder/geschaeftsfeld-db-fernverkehr/entwicklung-im-berichtsjahr/

This is the metric with which they hit only 60%

DB Regio reports an 89% punctuality figure for 2025 (down 1% from 2024). https://ibir.deutschebahn.com/2025/de/zusammengefasster-lagebericht/entwicklung-der-geschaeftsfelder/geschaeftsfeld-db-regio/entwicklung-im-berichtsjahr/

I don't doubt there are certain regions or lines where the regional and commuter trains are worse than your average ICE, but it's not the norm.