[ExI] germany to nuke its nukes

[Damien Sullivan]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:42:34PM -0700, spike wrote:

>    [1]http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7588000.html
>    Are you fer it or agin it?  Why?
>    Other's comments?

Agnostic.  Seems like cutting coal would be smarter than cutting
nuclear.  Though a bunch of the plants were scheduled for decommission
anyway due to age, before being extended, before this post-Fukushima
decision (which after all happened at an old plant.)  The Wikipedia page
on Renewable Energy in Germany was quite impressive; it's jumped from 6%
to 17% of electricity in the past decade.  Nuclear is 22% of
electricity.  Solar tripled from 2007 to 2009 and nearly doubled again
in 2010.  (Mind you, to 2% of electricity.)  

They've got their work cut out for them, but they're investing heavily,
sort of like their Apollo Project or Iraq War.  Or Interstate Highway,
to be less cruel to ourselves in productivity comparison.

Perspective: they had already planned to have 35% of electricity from
renewables by 2020 -- so they'd already planned to be nearly there, not
counting energy efficiency measures.

-xx- Damien X-)