On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Germany has an ambitious plan to switch from nuclear to solar and wind. > It is running into problems, for businesses and residences alike. > > Gene > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/world/europe/germanys-effort-at-clean-energy-proves-complex.html?pagewanted=all And a comment in that link explains why very well, other than his/her own evidence suggests the last sentence about it being stupidity is wrong > jupi - Hessen, Germany Sadly this article get's it all wrong. In fact there is no real government support for the shift to renewables. The smaller coalition partner, the FDP, is openly against it. Angela Merkels CDU isn't honest enough to say what it wants, including Angela Merkel herself. One has to remember, that the present government inherited the plans for renewables from the former government, including plans to shut down all nuclear plants. The switching to solar began long before Merkel took over. Merkel worked hard to end all these plans - and nearly succeeded. It was the exit from the exit from nuclear energy, resulting in public uproar without end. An unprecedented debacle for Merkel . Then Fukushima happened and Merkel jumped on the chance to take a 180deg turn. She presented her own plan, that was basically a facade of the old one, minus solar energy. It was the exit from the exit from the exit from nuclear energy. So much for Angela Merkels commitment to renewables. As a result of her politics, installation of solar plants dropped by 50-60% within the year. Uncounted companies went bankrupt. The big players in electricity business are happy to build coal fired plant after coal fired plant, with the main goal to obstruct the switching to renewables - with the side effect of increased CO2 emissions, because the poor german coal produces more of it than gas, that would otherwise be used. I could go on indefinitely about the stupidity of this government. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com
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