Germany shuts down a nuclear reactor

Germany has shut down its oldest and smallest nuclear reactor, and is planning to shut down the rest of them by the year 2020. A 30 percent rise in wholesale power prices in the past year won't slow the decommissioning, according to the Environment Ministry. The nuclear power plants currently produce a third of Germany's power.

How the fuck are they gonna live? Some newspapers mention windpower. I understand that they have a lot of wind, what with all the sauerkraut and sausage. Yeah, and the North Sea, and the Baltic. Still they won't have enough wind even if you order all Germans to stand and fart in the same direction.

According to BBC, Germany hopes that by 2010 wind will meet 12.5% of German energy needs. How they only have to get another 20.83% somewhere by 2020.

According to Bloomberg "Germany aims to make up for the loss by adding more natural- gas and coal-fired stations, which emit carbon dioxide, while trying to cut carbon emissions 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020. It has cut emissions by about 19 percent so far in an effort to combat global warming. Nuclear plants don't emit carbon dioxide." Yeah, right. Build more fossil fuel power plants, cut down the emissions, increase public services, cut down taxes, invent perpetual motion and establish world peace and democracy for everyone. And of course a lot of money for everyone so that nobody would have to go to work. And the electricity, as we all know, comes from the wall. Hopefully not the Berlin one.