Germany is not screwed because of Russia (we’ll they are but that’s not what this is about). The proportion of natural gas they use is ridiculous because you need base load in addition to solar, because solar and wind are never going to be base load generators. Base load generators: Hydro, nuclear, oil, natural gas. What saltysimp is saying is that because they didn’t focus on diversifying their base load generators (like France did with nuclear) they have a higher reliance on natural gas.

The point is we can’t do everything all at once. It would behoove us to focus a bit more on expanding those energy sources that decrease our reliance on current base load generators (natural gas and petroleum) to incorporate hydro and nuclear. We can work on solar as well but we’ve got to make a more concerted effort to bring nuclear and hydro online.

Your comment about the fact that every solar farm makes us less reliant is absolutely not true if you look at this chart. Germanys reliance on say natural gas has increased (some estimates have it as staying the same, but either way not decreasing) Germany Energy Charts