Germany‘s ambitious plans to dump nuclear energy and sharply cut carbon emissions at the same time may not be achievable, the key minister overseeing the plan admitted for the first time in an interview published Sunday.
Environment Minister Peter Altmaier, who was appointed by Chancellor Angela Merkel to fast-forward the overhaul, told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag, “It has to be questioned whether we‘ll really succeed in reducing electricity use by 10 per cent by 2010.
“If we are going to somehow managed this, it will take tremendous effort.”
Wooing environmentally conscious voters, the Merkel government decided last year to scrap nuclear power over the next decade, with cuts in power use and an expansion of wind- and solar-generated energy making up the difference.
Altmaier also admitted that plans to reduce carbon emissions by persuading Germans to switch from internal-combustion cars to electric ones were faltering.
Previously, the government had insisted that it was on track to put 1 million electric cars on German roads by 2020 and 6 million by 2030. At the start of this year, the total was just 4,541.
Merkle was Wrong, wrong, wrong(–bad advisors that simply don’t know), but her guy Altmaier could rescue the situation by conversion of conventional reactors to Liquid-Floride-Thorium-Reactors (LFTRs). Dropping electricity use 10% in the middle of a Recession is an idea that is at “cross-purposes” to a Recovery, because to Not go into further debt, the economy has to be booming, and it isn’t yet, but it could be. If the USA can retire, the Sorosian-puppet, Nobama, US energy will swing-up, and Germany can swing-up in the complementary area of LFTRs. Germany could lead the World in retro-fits of conventional reactors to LFTRs, actually doing “Green-’Good’” without the moronic un-workable “Green(RED)-agenda”. Germany is the “Garden of Genius”, and could gently Change the World with a switch to LFTRs. The fact that Germany has never yet DONE an LFTR retro-fit should Not stop-it, because Germany was perfecting many things, where the rest of the World could merely wonder. USA Moon landings were directly attributable to borrowed German Genius. Make it so, Noble Germany, fill the World with Good, safe, cheap Power, –Astonish us, and make us delight with Wonder!