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Can anyone point a bemused me to any document which explains why Germany decided to shut down their nuclear power plants?

I can't understand how wind and solar will provide power 24 hours day.



TL;DR: clueless German anti-nuclear ideology following the Chernobyl disaster further pushing the industry to gas due to German corrupt leadership meeting Russian gas bribes which further pushed the anti-nuclear propaganda in Germany.

"the gray building in the northeastern German city of Schwerin looks innocuous enough — and so does its tenant, the Foundation for the Protection of the Climate and Environment. Yet this regional foundation, created 23 months ago by the local state government, has done little for the climate. Instead, it served as a conduit for at least 165 million euros from the Kremlin-owned energy company Gazprom to build one of the world’s most contested gas pipelines: Nord Stream 2."[1]

[1] https://archive.ph/UrygD#selection-633.0-637.297


They switched for coal.




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