You see that big purple chunk pre-2011? Even if Germany built no new nuclear reactors after fukushima, and had just kept what it had, that would generate as much energy as Germany gets from burning coal today. Here's the full graph btw, you'll see that for decades nuclear was a clean power supply

All countries subsidize there energy sectors as it's a strategic way to gain energy independence, but even then Germany spends $10 billion more than France does

The "right thing" has resulted in expensive energy and dependence on Russian oil. Every day you can go and look at the difference between the countries that kept nuclear, and those that got rid of it. Germany is behind on energy because of this
app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h/hourly

Well that doesn't explain why German electricity is so much more expensive than France's. Nuclear energy isn't competitive with solar anymore for _new_ projects, but choosing to dismantle perfectly fine sources of energy was a mistake

Houston we have an AST

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