[Info-vax] The changing world

[chris]

On 07/05/22 22:32, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article<t9v01r$jpp$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, chris
> <chris-nospam at tridac.net>  writes:
>
>> I used to think that Germany was smart, but closing down all the nukes
>> was such a gross act of stupidity, one has to wonder. Repeated in
>> different ways in other European countries and what happens when green
>> zealots with no sense of reality are allowed near the levers of power.
>
> Get your facts straight.  While the Green party has always been
> anti-nuke, the decision to phase out nuclear power quickly was taken by
> the Merkel government (of which the Greens were not a part), a reaction
> to Fukushima.
>

Well, whoever did it, it was still a gross act of stupidity. As for the
greens, they would take humanity back to the stone age if they could
get away with it. All the BS about renewables ability to power a
modern civilisation is obvious to any engineer with a brain. How to
bring down a modern, high energy density civilisation ?, close down
all the most powerful energy sources in favour of windmills.

Civilisation progresses primarily through advances in the sciences and
access to cheap, reliable and dispatchable energy sources. We were 
supposed to have worked out all the ethics stuff centuries ago, but
looking at the state of the world, the Ukraine conflict, one has
doubts...

Chris