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Feb 25, 2022Liked by Maurice Frank

For obvious reasons this is flying under the radar but Germany shuttering 3 nuclear power plants today. And with Nordstream 2 on hold it means Germany is even more dependent on coal. Actually it's much worse.

Michael Shellenberger had this to say

Germany’s renewables experiment is over. By 2025 it will have spent $580B to make electricity nearly 2x more expensive & 10x more carbon-intensive than France’s. The reason renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to.

The saddest part of his tweet storm was this

It gets worse. In order to prevent electricity prices from rising further, or becoming overly dependent on Russian natural gas, Germany will next year destroy the ancient Hambach forest in order to mine the dirty brown coal underneath it. Now, it is threatening to destroy “a mystical place full of giant, gnarled, centuries-old trees, rare animals and fabulous castles... the home of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales & the oldest nature reserve in Germany.” Why? To throw up wind turbines:

I am absolutely lost for words

Now, it is threatening to destroy “a mystical place full of giant, gnarled, centuries-old trees, rare animals and fabulous castles... the home of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales & the oldest nature reserve in Germany.”

Why? To throw up wind turbines:

I am absolutely lost for words

https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/1146045263238369284?s=21

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