Posted on 10/27/2025 8:39:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The nuclear plant at Gundremmingen once produced a quarter of all the power generated in Bavaria. That was before we shut down its reactors in 2017 and 2021, in the course of our insane and totally purposeless nuclear phaseout. In theory anyway, we could have reactivated Gundremmingen in as little as four years. Instead, yesterday at noon exactly, we detonated the plant’s cooling towers. As the ecologically-minded Bayerischer Rundfunk reminds us, we can be grateful that light rain kept the dust pollution to a minimum.
RWE, Gundremmingen’s erstwhile operators, have all kinds of plans for the site. When they finally conclude dismantling the plant in the late 2030s, they want to put a 400-Megawatt battery storage facility there, and also maybe a natural gas power plant and a smattering of solar panels too. If it sounds good they’ll build it in Gundremmingen, but nothing they build there will ever prove remotely capable of producing the 20 TWh that the Unit B and Unit C reactors churned out at their peak.
Germany is presently deindustrialising, in large part because it has the most expensive energy in Europe. Our Economics Minister is begging the EU Commission to green-light more natural gas electricity generation. And we literally just blew up a power plant on live television. A weird clique of freaked out activists, sour schoolmarms and intellectually confused people are dragging Germany into the abyss, while our elected politicians stand around and make tepid suggestions. Our leading industrial city just voted for its own complete deindustrialisation in fifteen years. One in five municipal utilities in Germany hopes to decommission its entire natural gas network by 2045. We are headed straight for disaster.
The truth is that the shrieking media personalities and activists leading the charge don’t want to have good jobs or to bequeath our children a nation full of prospects. Sometimes it seems like they don’t even want to heat their homes in winter. They hope to trade comfort and prosperity for self-denial, for the passing thrill of feeling that they’re doing the right and the virtuous thing. Sometimes I fear they’re going to keep doing this right up until the lights go out.
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.
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
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.
That is an excellent take on this event.
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>
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.
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.
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.
With the failing German car industry they won’t need the electricity… 🤣
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’.
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.
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.
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...”
Witch will totally disappear first in Germany, electricity, free speech or moderate/conservative political parties?
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.
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.
The anti-nuke movement was a creation of the KGB during the cold war. It has always been insanity.
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.
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.
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