Sounds like something they would 'have' to use all the time. It's not like wind and sunshine was about to start powering the German industrial machine all on it

Sounds like something they would 'have' to use all the time. It's not like wind and sunshine was about to start powering the German industrial machine all on it's own any time soon. Probably biased but reminds me of a recent talk by a Polish nuclear scientist explaining how this gas infrastructure is much more expensive than most people imagine. And it has to be regularly updated. So, if we are to factor in that cost, then brand new nuclear infrastructure and nuclear conversion isn't that much more.