Posted on 04/11/2023 5:34:50 AM PDT by McGruff
Germany will shut down its three remaining nuclear plants on Saturday, betting that it can fulfil its green ambitions without atomic power despite the energy crisis caused by the Ukraine war.
The cloud of white steam that has risen since 1989 over the river in Neckarwestheim, near Stuttgart, will soon be a distant memory, as will the Isar 2 complex in Bavaria and the Emsland plant in the north.
At a time when many Western countries are ramping up nuclear power in their transition to greener energy sources, Europe’s biggest economy is resolutely sticking to its plans — though not everyone is in agreement.
Germany has been looking to phase out nuclear power since 2002, but the decision was accelerated by former chancellor Angela Merkel in 2011 after the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
Fukushima showed that “even in a high-tech country like Japan, the risks of nuclear energy cannot be safely controlled”, Merkel said at the time.
The exit decision was popular in a country with a powerful anti-nuclear movement fuelled by fears of Cold War conflict and disasters such as Chernobyl.
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The Krauts will all obey.
We’re exporting record amounts of our energy.
I wonder how much is going to Germany...
The New World Order is fast approaching: centralization of authority, rationing of resources, stifling of dissent, and universal surveillance of a captive population. The people driving this are perfectly comfortable with all that.
Yep. Similarly though, if find a lot of American liberals believe Europe is ‘so much better than us’ because they once visited a couple of places, so they now think they’re sooOOOooo cultured....all those social programs.
I grew up in the UK, born and raised. I still have family & friends over there - but I’m a different person now and I *know* they don’t get America like they think they do. Every time I return I see more clearly what I never saw while living there - and neither do they because they’re saturated in it (besides the fact that it is almost unrecognizable in many parts now).
Understanding these dynamics is fascinating, especially when you know those you’re talking to really don’t understand it at all. Of course, every member of my family ‘knows’ what everyone thinks of Trump.
Having lived there for a number of years... I will enjoy the lamentations of their women when there is no electricity in the winter time. There are months at a time of overcast no wind days. The new REAL Germans (assorted third world trash on welfare) will not tolerate a loss of comfort and will riot in the streets.
They import electricity from France where they produce 70% of their electricity from nuclear and they have no problems doing so
US to Germany: Don’t even think about getting rid of our nuclear bombs on your soil unless you want another sabotage explosion ‘accident’. “We can make that happen”.
Notice that every single one of those things is due to their history. NONE of it is due to the higher level of socialism.
I tell Lefties in the US I'd love for us to be more like Europe.
I want to have as many nuclear power plants per capita as France.
I want to have the election integrity laws all of them have - ie very strict rules on absentee voting, you have to show up on election day, show government issued photo ID, vote on paper ballots, meaningful right to observe and challenge the count for all political parties, etc etc
They even all have much stricter limits on abortion.
Several of them have strict restrictions on what students have to do to qualify for government assistance for higher education, etc
almost none of the woke crap is permitted on the Continent
Oddly, Leftists in America don't seem to want to adopt any of that.
Ficken arselochen.
We should have taken Germany when we had the chance.
For decades they’ve been making noises like they wanted
everyone out of their cars and hopping on busses and light
rail.
Folks would have to give up on local travel over 20 miles
and sacrifice about 25-50% of their time to riding on
mass transit.
In my case it took between 5-6 times as long to travel
to work on mass transit both ways, and it you were
introduced to a whole new world of people with urine
soaked clothing and being trapped in a crime ridden
environment.
No thanks
You bring up a point about election integrity that bothers me greatly.
The EU governments have all gone full-tilt socialist and are ruled by a totalitarian-minded bureaucracy out of Brussels. People appear to have voted for this, and decisively so, over many years, if your assessment of their election integrity is correct.
The major European countries appear to be committing economic, demographic, and national suicide.
What are we missing here? While I have doubts about election integrity here in the United States, your observations in Europe lead me to believe that "free and fair elections" might not fix anything anywhere.
Perhaps the politicians are confident in their actions because they know they can fool most of the people, most of the time. In which case, democracy as a political system appears guaranteed to fail.
The disconnect between the German ordinary citizen and their government attitudes is baffling. I know many Germans and their personal lives are basically conservative, except when they have a celebration and then all hell breaks loose. Fasching/Carnival celebrations are like huge frat parties for the whole population...but then it’s over and back to work they go.
They accept a kind of compartmentalization of life.
And they accept the ruling government directions meekly, but complain at whatever Stammtisch they frequent endlessly.
the reason the euro’s think they are so superior then us stupid Americans. I concider them to be the inbreds, we (ancestors) left europe and they stayed.
Fukushima showed that “even in a high-tech country like Japan, the risks of nuclear energy cannot be safely controlled”,
If greenies were at all serious about what they say about climate change, they’d be demanding large nuclear power programs.
How can they turn off nuclear if they are also not allowed to use Russian oil? Do they have computers in Germany to power? (sarc)
Because China is given a pass from the world community.
Nuclear has to be the best and cleanest form of green energy.
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