Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:36:57 AM
Germany has
boxed themselves in as most European countries are doing when it comes to energy and the environment.
Nuclear power is too dangerous. Coal is too dirty. Gas involves too much dependence on Russia. And renewables are insufficient. So just where is Germany going to get its power from?
German Enviromental Minister Gabriel is convinced that the general population has little more than a superficial understanding of where energy comes from. "What has now happened is exactly what the old nuclear lobbyists warned against in the past: Citizens think that electricity comes from their wall outlets," Gabriel complains. These days it is even difficult to gain approval for a biomass power plant, he added.