Comment by ZeroGravitas
10 hours ago
Why do you say "embrace nuclear" when the EU has substantial existing and planned nuclear plants? (Current gen is something like 24% nuclear in EU, 20% in wider Europe, 18% USA, 4.4% China)
And anyway, alongside that world leading nuclear already in existence why wouldn't they just install lots of cheap solar and wind, and heat pumps and EVs and reduce their imports of energy from their current high levels (about .6 Trillion euros in 2022, down to .35 in 2024 though that seems mostly a change in price, volume has declined only slightly)
Embrace nuclear would be continuing the existing recent trend of the Germans stopping talking down to the French, and also figuring out how to build new ones in a timely matter.
Solar is pretty terrible outside of Spain, and even there the latitude is not great.