That is so dumb I have no words for it

[kiaa]

Well, it finally happened. Germany is out of the nuclear power game...and since it can't yet fill the gap with renewable energy, it went right back to gas and even coal. Coal! Predictably, the pro-fossil fuel, pro-pollution, pro-climate change Green Party activists are taking a victory lap. Because in Germany (and much of Europe), being "green" isn't about environmentalism as much as it's about luddism.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/15/europe/germany-nuclear-phase-out-climate-intl/index.html

From the outside in, support for nuclear is how I test for whether people are serious when they claim to believe in some form of climate-driven catastrophism. If they mean what they say, then THEY should be nuclear's biggest cheerleaders.

Comments

[luzribeiro]

I wonder what weird historical and current political reasons are behind this.

[garote]

Personally, I’m more a fan of massively increasing power efficiency, rather than power generation. There is so much obvious work to do in that sphere it is, frankly, absurd.