> idk, when I see the US spending 8-10 trillion dollar in 20 years in Afghanistan I think money really isn't the problem here That's American fiscal policy, bu

> idk, when I see the US spending 8-10 trillion dollar in 20 years in Afghanistan I think money really isn't the problem here That's American fiscal policy, but we are talking about Germany here, which has way less debt per GDP [0] [1], so for the most part Germany knows how to handle its money and where to best put it. > Yeah but you can wish them out, and wish for solar and wind farms to replace them, too bad these wishes didn't actually work out. Except Germany didn't just "wish", it acted and created the conditions for a renewable boom, to compensate for the long-term fission phaseout, it did that trough the first green electricity feed-in tariff scheme in the world already back in 1991 [2]. That's why Germany nowadays sits on nearly 50% renewables even after shutting down fission reactors; Those reactors were very much mostly replaced by solar and wind [3]. > Also, electricity is twice as expensive in Germany than in France See the aforementioned EEG, that's why electricity, and also gasoline, is so expensive in Germany; There is an extra tax on it that has been used to pioneer the research [4] and deployment of PV and wind before these technologies were adopted widespread globally, thus turning them into the efficient profitable industries they are today. German subsidies paid for that R&D and scaling up part, jut like they were, and still are, a major contributor to where these technologies are today. [0] https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/government-debt-to-gdp https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/government-debt-to-gdp [1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-to-gdp https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-t... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Sources_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Source... [3] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial_espionage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial...