Germany Finds Delays and Surprises Entering a Post-Nuclear Power Era

The Germans import all sorts of electicity from France, which is virtually all nuclear. They aren't really "anti-nuke" ... just anti-nuke for the Fatherland. They can have their yellow cake and eat it too.

There's also a revolt building against wind turbines...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/ger ... 10816.html

I've seen wind farms only in Washington state and on Wolfe Island near Kingston, and aesthetically they don't do anything for the skyline.

Stay away from Spain, Germany, Holland and Austria. Those Austrian bastards have put a million windmills along the border with Slovakia, so they can claim some useless green BS and piss off their neighbors at the same time.

It's utterly ridiculous.

I saw a nice one in the Texas desert along Interstate 10 a few years ago ... nothing but Roadrunners and Coyotes around. It seems like an appropriate place to put a wind farm. It was a surprise to see it in the middle of the old Texas oil patch. There must have been some sort of mega-tax rebate scam going on.

I'm rather surprised to hear this because the last I heard, Germany was putting the kibosh on any new turbine construction. Their reasoning was in part because intermittent power supplies like wind and solar don't match up well with their still highly balkanized power grid.