The future of Germany's energy: demand and supply on collision course

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Originally Posted by AntEater

...Add to that the "nuclear exit", a typical german compromise.
Re nuclear power, you can basically:
- continue it, thereby retaining a very expensive but extremely reliable energy source and a huge high tech industry with endless export possibilities, but risking a disaster and having to deal with waste
- abandon it, reducing the risk and waste while losing the industry and being forced to invest in more emission intensive power sources like coal...

Nuke tech has come a long way in recent years. A meltdown is near impossible (the human element is removed, though manual controls still exist for over-ride), and containiment in an event if it could possibly occur is secure. And, you get free power with no harmful effects on the enviroment - with near perfectly efficient reactors and almost no waste. Its the only way forward, unless we start getting antimatter reactors.

-S

PS. The US has started building its first reactors in decades - check TX.