Link: https://doomberg.substack.com/ Please see link above for source text. Doomberg February 13, 2024
Germany - Full Circle “My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out.” – Steven Wright Germany’s national energy strategy is one of the great mysteries of our time. The country discharges less than 2% of global carbon emissions, and yet the elite within its establishment have nonetheless embarked on what amounts to an economic suicide mission—hellbent as they are on saving the planet by example. Never mind that the rest of the world will happily absorb every gram of fossil fuels Germany pretends to be temporarily abating, or that the country will inevitably burn more fossil fuels as it regresses from the brink of intellectually empty platitudes to the harsh realities of physics. Among the most illogical moves made by the ruling class has been the proactive dismantling of 22 GW of the world’s best-run nuclear reactors. With nuclear power plants running at 90% capacity factors or better, Germany was once capable of churning out nearly 170 terawatt-hours per year of carbon-free baseload power, an enviable anchor that served as one of two economic foundations for its once impressive manufacturing sector.
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