Pitkähkö tarina siitä, miten Saksa tuli hylänneeksi ydinvoiman. Ja miten maa on uponnut yhä syvemmälle onnettomaan ratkaisuunsa:
New Document Release Reveals Greens Engaging in Fraud to Deceive Ministers and Push German Nuclear Phase-OutTästä se alkoi:
All of our countries are crazy in various ways, but when it comes to energy policy Germany is an undisputed champion of crazy.
In 2011, a tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster. If you check a map, you’ll notice that Fukushima is in a country called Japan, which it turns out is a different country from Germany. The Fukushima disaster had zero to do with the Federal Republic, but then-Chancellor Angela Merkel felt the need to solve the problem of Fukushima by phasing out nuclear power in Germany, even though tsunamis and earthquakes are not a problem in Germany, because Germany is a country in Central Europe and not an island nation in Asia.
That is crazy enough, but it gets much crazier. Months before announcing the nuclear phase-out, Merkel’s Government had passed energy transition legislation to secure Germany’s path towards a zero-emissions future. We resolved to ditch our most significant source of emissions-free power, in other words, just months after resolving an energy transition to emissions-free power. At this point you would be justified in wondering if Germany suffers from some kind of shamanistic cultural phobia of electricity in general, that is how crazy this is. These insane choices had the near-term consequence of increasing our dependence on Russian natural gas. Otherwise, they ensured that power generation in Germany would be vastly more expensive than necessary and also vastly more carbon intensive than necessary.
Se ei tule artikkelissa selvemmäksi, miksi Merkel ja CDU muuttivat yhtäkkiä kantaansa. He olivat selvästi ja voimakkaastikin ydinvoiman kannalla. Ja sitten, hups, eivät olleetkaan.
