Using Germany as a case study, this section exposes the gap between installed renewable capacity and actual power output, revealing structural instability, increased CO₂ emissions, and the misleading narratives promoted by mass media.

2016-03-16

The result was how much electricity could be supplied.
It amounted to only five percent of total power generation.
The problem lies, for example, in the fact that even today Asahi Shimbun sells around six million copies, whereas WiLL has a circulation of only 110,000 copies as of 2011.
This reflects the existence of media outlets that ignore or conceal facts in order to realize their distorted ideologies, and media that cater to entrepreneurs who manipulate them, reap enormous profits for themselves, weaken Japan’s world-class corporations, continuously aid competing foreign companies, and steadily erode Japan’s national strength.
What follows continues from the previous chapter.
All emphases in the text except the heading are mine.
“Renewable Energy Poverty.”
He claims that Japan has the wisdom, technology, and indomitable spirit to turn crisis into opportunity, and that within thirty years Japan can fully replace its dependence on nuclear power with natural energy.
Why can he state so definitively that it can be done.
No concrete data or explanations supporting this claim are presented.
He says that claims about renewable energy being unstable are lies, that he personally went to Germany and saw that it is getting better and better.
However, he provides no details on what exactly was good, which power plants he visited, or what he observed.
The defining feature of Mr. Koizumi’s remarks is that they are superficial, filled with catchy phrases, and entirely empty in substance.
Before the Great East Japan Earthquake, Germany operated fifteen nuclear reactors that supplied twenty-five percent of its total electricity generation.
After the disaster, the number was reduced to seven, but with a capacity factor of ninety-nine percent, they still supply fifteen percent of total generation.
When nuclear power accounted for twenty-five percent of total generation, Germany installed solar power capacity equal to one and a half times the total installed capacity of its nuclear plants.
The result was how much electricity could be supplied.
Only five percent of total generation.
Given that the installed capacity was one and a half times that of nuclear power, it should have supplied at least thirty percent.
However, solar power cannot generate electricity during cloudy or rainy weather, or in the evening and at night.
Not only solar and wind power, but all renewable energy sources fluctuate significantly and cannot be stored, requiring backup power sources.
In Germany, nearly half of electricity generation now relies on coal-fired power, exacerbating CO₂ emissions.
The more renewable energy is promoted, the more CO₂ emissions increase, causing air pollution.
This situation is known as the green paradox.
To be continued.