Monday 18 April 2011

Energy flash: could Germany finally say Nein Danke to Atomkraft?



Chancellor Merkel could in the future be seen as a 2011 global pioneer of renewables, after she said recently that Germany's "energy supply can be achieved without nuclear power".


Let's just let those words sink in for a second. Germany:


A country whose population, at over 81 million, is the biggest in the European Union - a country whose population is over a quarter that of  the USA....


A country with prestigious G8 membership - one of the richest in the world...


A country famed worldwide for its peerless automotive industry: BMW, Porsche, Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes...


A country whose beers are, alongside those of Czechoslvakia and France, among the finest on the  planet...


A country whose collective personality is known for precision, organisation, efficiency...


... is going non-nuclear? Incredible.


Post Fukushima, the slogan "abschalten und umdenken" (Switch off and rethink") has a new resonance.



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