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In Germany we have the highest electricity prices in Europe and we just blew up our largest-capacity nuclear plant on live television.
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Posted on 10/27/2025 8:39:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: Retain Mike

Nuclear fission does not.

We need to be leveraging the US’s investment and success with SMR’s (Small Modular Reactors) that is the U.S. Navy nuclear propulsion system. And maybe advancing it for civil use by using thorium instead of uranium. And building lots of civil power plants thus.

As I have often pointed out here, and in public, you cannot power modern civilization with wind, solar, and unicorn flatulence. You need dispatchable power from nuclear fission (fusion has been 20 years out for the last 60 years or more), coal, natural gas. Oil is too valuable as a transportation fuel to use for grid power generation.


41 posted on 10/27/2025 10:03:41 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: chajin

Global socialism killed significantly more than national socialism in the 20th Century. Stalin and Mao are WAY ahead of Hitler on the leaderboard. And a real king is just behind them, and still way ahead of Hitler.

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM


42 posted on 10/27/2025 10:06:32 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

After World War II, one Allied plan for Germany was to de-industrialize it and turn it into a purely agricultural nation. That was viewed as unrealistic and overly-harsh at the time. Now the Germans are doing it to themselves voluntarily.


43 posted on 10/27/2025 10:11:41 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: MtnClimber
Over eighty years ago, the Morgenthau Plan, proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., was a plan for the post-World War II treatment of Germany that aimed to deindustrialize the country and turn it into an agrarian economy. Key aspects included dismantling German industry, closing its mines, and partitioning the country. While the Morgenthau Plan was discarded due to Cold War realities, which required rehabilitation of West Germans, the Germans themselves are self-implementing that plan.
44 posted on 10/27/2025 10:13:30 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: PGR88

That is an excellent take on this event.


45 posted on 10/27/2025 10:15:03 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Wallace T.; Opinionated Blowhard

GREAT POINT and knowledge of history!

I knew of the Morgenthau Plan, but didn’t remember it / think about it with respect to this event.

Perfect! < chef’s kiss>


46 posted on 10/27/2025 10:19:25 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: PROCON

At .26 euro cents per kwh....without AC, for a 2 person apartment....around 1,150 euro a year. Figure $1,350 roughly. Also figure the German wife forbids dryer use for 7 months out of the year, and every single light is LED.


47 posted on 10/27/2025 10:21:04 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: FreedomPoster

And building lots of civil power plants thus.

Texas, and places west, have lots of land to build civil power plants.

New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, etc. do not have the open land to build these power plants. Which is why they are against them.


48 posted on 10/27/2025 10:28:21 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: MtnClimber

Just like a slow motion train wreck that you can’t tear your eyes away from, the ongoing self-immolation of the EU is must-see theater.


49 posted on 10/27/2025 10:29:54 AM PDT by tballard56
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To: MtnClimber

With the failing German car industry they won’t need the electricity… 🤣


50 posted on 10/27/2025 10:32:20 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: pepsionice

In E. WA state where I live, my large one bedroom apartment’s monthly electricity bill over the last 10 years has gone from $84/mth to /$146/mth with the same basic KW/H usage, increasing based solely on the green energy scam charges we have to pay to ‘save the planet’.


51 posted on 10/27/2025 10:39:22 AM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: ro_dreaming

I was just in upstate NY. There is plenty of land to build some SMR’s

Transmission technology is such that plants in TX are not going to solve power shortage problems in NY and New England.


52 posted on 10/27/2025 10:41:02 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

Not long ago they blew up a fairly new coal to gas plant.

Germany will recover when its women are wearing burkas and liking it.


53 posted on 10/27/2025 10:44:56 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: MtnClimber

I’m sure that there is an active, ongoing search for the person who wrote this article.

And not that long ago, the USSR was called “the sick man of Europe...”


54 posted on 10/27/2025 10:48:18 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day.)
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To: The Antiyuppie
I’m sure that there is an active, ongoing search for the person who wrote this article.

Witch will totally disappear first in Germany, electricity, free speech or moderate/conservative political parties?

55 posted on 10/27/2025 10:55:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

They had all the cheap dependable Russian gas they could ever dream of. But they had to get some Lebensraum in the east again and start a war in Ukraine.

Germans either do things wonderfully, or they eff it up in ways you couldn’t imagine were even possible.


56 posted on 10/27/2025 10:56:38 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: MtnClimber

Not to worry. Germany’s new koranimal population will soon take full control of the government and they have no problem with nuclear energy, except how to build it. There will no doubt be some kraut dhimmis who have the engineering expertise who don’t want to lose their heads who can build them for Ahmed.


57 posted on 10/27/2025 11:06:37 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Drew68

The anti-nuke movement was a creation of the KGB during the cold war. It has always been insanity.


58 posted on 10/27/2025 11:20:04 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: FreedomPoster

Transmission technology is such that plants in TX are not going to solve power shortage problems in NY and New England.

Agreed. Especially since Texas is a separate grid, and needs to keep being a separate grid. When one interconnects Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, it just allows problems to cascade further down the line before being stopped.


59 posted on 10/27/2025 11:20:27 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: MtnClimber

On the bright side, we know the Germans will not be able to start any wars as they continue to shoot themselves in the foot.


60 posted on 10/27/2025 11:32:11 AM PDT by CdMGuy
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