Agreed. What happened to Germany is staggering to behold. They have single-handedly destroyed their industrial base with their "green" policies. Then the US blew up Nordstream, their last source of cheap energy, and the Germans do nothing.
Germany doing nothing actually would have been preferable. Instead they shut down their last 3 large, state of the art, nuclear power plants in April 2023, and continued with their $500 billion investment in solar and wind in a country with comparatively little wind or sunshine. Their self sacrificing based on platitudes is embarrassing.
Yep. Mind-boggling. Here in Switzerland, the more stupid among us voted to close down our nuke power stations. Fortunately, the government has been slow walking the closures, and we also get a lot of energy from hydro.
By contrast, Japan is rolling out small self-contained molten salt nuclear reactors (which can't melt down unless the laws of physics change) all over their grid. I would love to have one myself (they're about the size of a shipping container and will put out 1 megawatt for 30 years before needing refueling).
Agreed. What happened to Germany is staggering to behold. They have single-handedly destroyed their industrial base with their "green" policies. Then the US blew up Nordstream, their last source of cheap energy, and the Germans do nothing.
Germany doing nothing actually would have been preferable. Instead they shut down their last 3 large, state of the art, nuclear power plants in April 2023, and continued with their $500 billion investment in solar and wind in a country with comparatively little wind or sunshine. Their self sacrificing based on platitudes is embarrassing.
Yep. Mind-boggling. Here in Switzerland, the more stupid among us voted to close down our nuke power stations. Fortunately, the government has been slow walking the closures, and we also get a lot of energy from hydro.
By contrast, Japan is rolling out small self-contained molten salt nuclear reactors (which can't melt down unless the laws of physics change) all over their grid. I would love to have one myself (they're about the size of a shipping container and will put out 1 megawatt for 30 years before needing refueling).