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i'm not good in writing articles ...

we could just find and copy a good english background article on that.

@elainekirk just checking der spiegel english articles...

Japan is capable of Replacing Nuclear Power with Renewables

Written by Joao Peixe
Saturday, 17 September 2011 18:58

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a leading proponent of Germany phasing out nuclear power, has said that in the wake of Japan’s disastrous 11 March Fukushima nuclear accident that the country can both phase out nuclear power and become a pioneer in sources of alternative energy.

In an interview with Mainichi newspaper Schroeder said, "Japan is in a position where it is technologically capable of forming different energy policies. Japan could become a pioneer in energy other than nuclear power. Even risks of less realistic dangers like terrorism or airplane accidents must not be ruled out if there is even a slim possibility of them happening. Germany's safety philosophy is more solid than that of Japan. The massive tsunami could probably have been envisaged, and the fact that it was not envisaged when it should have been is problematic."

Schroeder added that when Germany decided to eliminate nuclear power, "there was tremendous resistance from the power industry, which had believed that nuclear power was the essence of their business model, but debate was continued with industry executives until they understood."

In 1998 Schroeder's Social Democratic Party of Germany formed a coalition with the German Green Party and four years later the coalition passed legislation to eliminate nuclear power by around 2020, a policy put on hold by the administration of Chancellor Angela Merkel until after the Fukushima accident.

By. Joao Peixe, Deputy Editor OilPrice.com
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it is building up quite well :)

ok I will look for articles on germany's withdrawal from nuke

@Thunder thanks thunder that looks good I will tweet it too

@Thunder ty sleep well

Morning! (afternoon-evening)

@Elaine, the news stories about Seimens that are in the google doc, where did they come from?

@lillymunster the links are all on there edano thought it would make a good article spo we gathered them up for you I tried to take a different aspect from each article

Siemens, not Seimens ;)

@Edano I will go add them :)

@Edano @elainekirk wonderful! I wanted to make sure I had everything before I wrote something up. Thinking I do one with the gathered Siemens information and another with the German energy shift.

@Edano your making my day! :-) Vested interests have done so much to convince people alternative energy isn't viable, good to see some information showing otherwise.

@Edano People in the US I talk to are in disbelief that German is actually doing all of this. They have been so convinced alternative energy is folly. So showing people all the details of the changes in Germany can be key to change everywhere else.
Does the mainstream German media talk about all the reality of nuclear power openly? In the US the lack of this in the main media seems to be a big hurdle. Unless someone is actively seeking information they likely don't know much about energy issues. Then you have politicians here telling people it is American to drive a huge truck with 1 person in it and to own a huge house and run the air conditioning with the front door open. Anything else is "unamerican".

@lillymunster the media is very present and critical on nuke energy. the big electricity companies fight with deceptive information such as that germany will have blackouts and must import nuke power, but we have strong green parties and a social agreement that does not believe in those pr campains.

the green party in germany derived from the anti nuke movement after chernobyl, so you can say that the shift to renewables needed thirty years.

30 years is a human generation, so this shift is also a change from old nuke thinking to modern, complex, decentral thinking.

@Edano People in the US will tell me that alternative energy doesn't work. I tell them to drive 30 minutes east of here. There is a massive wind power region mixed in among the farms in southern Minnesota. I have never seen it not generating power. We have almost constant wind around here. The decentralized idea needs to become political mandate with govt. subsidy to buy systems and it would easily take off here. Right now our govt. is completely dysfunctional, they can't vote on what to have for lunch. :-)

and think about the big uneconomic american cars that used to be "american style". today they don't sell anymore. in some ten years you will find them only in cuba. :)