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Germany to abandon nuclear power by 2022

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After they abandoned nuclear power, they purchase energy from France, which are created by nuclear power.

The government here (I come from Germany) wants to keep one nuclear power plant active if the power use spikes unexpected - they hold a loophole open.

I personally don't believe this story until the last plant is dismantled. The government promised to abandon nuclear power years ago, just to break this promise some years later.

In the early 2000 they planned to abandon nuclear power by 2016 [1]

[1] http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump...

And replace it with?

"Green" energy. Whatever that may be, is as of yet not entirely clear.

But for certain is that Germany will start investing, even more then now already, in decentralised "small scale" power-generation. Such as wind, solar, heat, CHP (often nat-gas-fueled) and so on.

Germany and Denmark already "own" most knowledge and techniques for development and maintainance of wind- and solar-power. As of now, this is a serious and highly profitable business in .de and .dk. For example, in .nl (Where I am from) we buy all our windmills (and parts and knowledge) from Germany.

Whether it is a populist, bad argumented decision or not, Germanies economy is going to benefit from this shift big time.

Germany is definitely a leading European player in solar, I wouldn't be at all surprised if that was true for wind too.

A key factor here is the availability of feed-in tariffs via the Renewable Energy Sources Act which has been a big incentive for the development, manufacture and deployment of renewables.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed-in_tariff#Germany.27s_Rene...

Well, along with the stop to nuclear power, a further decrease of the subsidies for solar technology was decided. Granted, this is mostly about private households putting solar panels on their rooftops, which doesn't have a huge impact on the national energy supply anyway.

Most importantly, our Lebenswelt will benefit, if this decision holds for the next centuries.

From an article I've read they're planning to use natural gas turbines until renewables can replace them as well.

That gas is probably going to come from Russia, so Putin must be smiling.

tin hats all around!

Well, in any way it will be imported tin foil hats. What little is left of the aluminum industry in Germany will leave, as they're heavily dependent on energy costs.

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