Comment by RandomLensman
5 months ago
Shutting down nuclear was a pretty popular policy. But that aside, what the Energiewende was not about was removing obstacles to building out energy infrastructure rapidly (e.g., the delay on the north-south connections).
Well, populism is no good reason to do something dumb. Maybe laymen should not directly have a say over experts in deeply technical discussions.
Yes, not supporting energy infrastructure construction better was a mistake.
Removing what would be nasty targets in a war perhaps in the current light not so much.
No shutting down cheap, reliable, CO₂ free and already paid for energy infrastructure was.
That's about as idiotic as you can get.
And simply by not destroying this already existing infrastructure you wouldn't even have needed north-south links.
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