Posted on 05/05/2023 12:31:38 PM PDT by Red Badger
They created two issues (both oddly with Merkel in the mix).
1. For years, they’d temp-stored nuke waste, waiting for a disposal ‘cave’ solution to be prepared. Merkel (as the wall came down) was brought in given a high post as the minister in charge of nuke disposal. She would eventually say that the idea would not work....mostly because of the extreme anti-nuke position of the ‘left’.
2. Then you had the Fukushima episode. In this case as Chancellor, Merkel took the position that Germany could never allow itself to have a accident like this.
Then oddly, this position was taken at the same time that coal-powered plants were deemed ‘evil’ and they had to be cut as well.
There’s no doubt, a lot of power will be missing and either the French or the Poles...will be selling power to them...at a excessive rate. The amusing thing is that it’ll come from mostly nuke power plants.
More proof of the old adage “if the government were put in charge of sand, the Sahara Desert would soon have a shortage of it.” Could anything be more stupid than putting a price cap on something that is in short supply? Why would any sane organization produce something that they can only sell at a loss?
They are painting themselves into a corner.
Nuclear is the way to go even with the risks.
THEY USE JIGGAWATTS................
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