Lexi,

Another fluff piece from a pro greenie blog? Puleez!

Rstuart,

As the deadline is 2022, I would guess that Angela Merkel will do a Juliar Gillard and as soon as the political landscape changes, quietly ditch the reactor closures.

@Shadow Minister: As the deadline is 2022, I would guess that Angela Merkel will do a Juliar Gillard and as soon as the political landscape changes, quietly ditch the reactor closures.

Nah. She won't be around in 10 years time. As she has already been there for 6 it is unlikely she will even make it 1/2 way. It looks to me like an empty political stunt to capitalise on Fukushima.

Maybe there is some higher purpose to it, such as preparing the voters for the expense of developing other sources of energy. I'd like to think so, but it seems like a forlorn hope as she is after all just another politician.

At my core Shadow I'm beginning to suspect that politically I am not so much left or right, as just plain cynical.

@Hasbeen: I should have expected red herrings, shouldn't I.

Yes you should. You started it. The relevance of your experiences with a 30 inch windmill charging a battery has to commercial power production supplying the grid it beyond me. Maybe you could comment on the health issues the low frequency noise caused you, or how many bats it killed, or how you had to keep a gas powered conventional generator spinning in case the wind stopped?

@Hasbeen: she asked if out new house was going to have real "electric", or just that Mickey mouse stuff like the boat.

I think everyone would feel the same way, including the greenies. Everyone loves the cheap, reliable electricity produced by our coal fired generation. If they didn't, we would not have a problem. Sorry, I'm off on a tangent, what was your point?