It’s odd to see Germans being so downright silly, isn’t it?
Amazing what happens when the enviromentalist get involved. While they fly around in corporate jets and limos to events they tell countries and the people living there that they need to use less.
It was a very,very silly decision Germany made to shut down their nuke plants.In my travels throughout Germany (West Germany,actually...I haven’t been there since reunification) I found that Germany doesn’t get nearly as much sunshine as some countries/regions.Like Spain,or the Australian Outback,or Nevada.
... the country needs to develop an energy provision that is at the same time ecological, secure and affordable.By "ecological," I think they mean no/low CO2 emission. I have no idea what the metric is for "security." And "affordable" is always relative. And this thing is called a "dream?" My impression is that it was economic policy, established by the government.
Solar power in Germany. Sorta like snow skiing in Egypt.
What a surprise.
The problem with watching them try this sort of thing and failing is that nobody on the Left seems to learn from failure. If it doesn’t work, you just need more of it. That’s not only an environmental policy, it’s an entire philosophy of government.
renewables have to play an important role in the Energy Transition
If you do not accept the AGW hypothesis, coal is no more harmful than natural gas. Coal combustion just emits more CO2. So keep on generating half of your energy from coal, Germany; and bring nuclear back up to 25%.
Germany needs to permit fracking in order to replace astronomically expensive solar and wind power with natural gas and to replace natural gas imports. Chalk up the renewable experiment to an expensive lesson.
In a logical world, the political will for fracking should come from Putin's antics. With Putin funding the German anti-fracking lobby, however, rational behavior may be doomed.