UNBELIEVABLE – Germany, the powerhouse of Europe, an industrial giant, needing massive reserves of fuel and power and energy, has decided to close all its nuclear plants by 2022.
That is utter madness. Germany gets 23 per cent of her power from nuclear and 17 per cent from renewables.
Germany aims to obtain 34 per cent from renewables, because the Green movement in that country has been worried by the damage done to four of Japan’s nuclear power stations after an enormous tsunami and a massive earthquake, the like of which has never been experienced before and would never affect central Europe.
Germany is not on any geo fault lines, but the cost of changing her energy supplies will be astronomical, even for a superb nation like Germany. She may have to use “clean” coal technology, because there is no way that green renewables will ever manage to supply what Germany needs.
Germany is a true democracy and Chancellor Merkel has bowed to popular feelings and demand, but Germany will live to bitterly regret this suicidal decision based on false emotions and unnecessary concerns and worry.
David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Acomb, York.
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