Yes, yes, we've heard that, let's close all nuclear plants, buy gas from Russia and planet will be saved. Great time for this post, indeed.<p>Energiewende is an extremely expensive project that is simply not going to work, what is clarify to some extent for example here [1]. It is economical absurdity, it is as if someone would try to built Perpetuum mobile, but breaking laws of economy. In fact, anyone can find in the internet sunny days stats for Germany and check by themselves if this has any chance to work on a truly large scale without existing efficient energy storage.<p>In addition Energiewende considers gas as green energy source, what is a joke, and, what is even more ridiculous, "biomas" is also green energy source, no idea how burning wood and corn is not emitting CO2, but, hey, ecologist are not doing something totally nuts for the first time, so not a big surprise.<p>Fighting nuclear energy for last 60 years worked so well for Greenpeace and others that we are in the today's crappy situation, but still nobody is saying, hey guys it seems you were dead wrong about nukes, it seems that's the only clean and practical, CO2 emission free energy source, isn't it?<p>If Germany didn't waste all those trillions of dollars for Energiewende of solar and wind power plants, but built reactors instead, they would have practically CO2-free economy now, but former chancellor, Mr. Gerhard Schröder, would not get a nice job in Gazprom in that case.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06...</a>