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What's important for this dialog is time. The Schröder 1 and the Merkel decision are decades old. Would it have been better to keep a health nuclear industry g
by HdS84 2y ago
What's important for this dialog is time.
The Schröder 1 and the Merkel decision are decades old. Would it have been better to keep a health nuclear industry going? Yes, probably. But that was killed for good with 2011 reversal (Merkel, not Greens...). And even that would have been of questionable value because there would have been no new construction.
The red-green-yellow government in 2022 had a few remaining nuclears going but keeping them online would have been difficult and costly. So there was no real choice.
The real energy politics failure happened mostly under Merkel , but the greens are sooooo bad. Yes, ofc - it boiled over in 2021/2022 but we warned Merkel did not bother to set the necessary goals in the decades prior.
Kinda difficult to built new solar and wind energy quickly when your predecessor intentionally crippled that.