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The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To
Policy makers in the United States (and the rest of the world) should learn from Germany's experiment in banning nuclear power in preference of unreliable solar and wind. It has increase energy insecurity and costs while decreasing reliability.
https://www.wired.com/story/germany-rejected-nuclear-power-and-deadly-emissions-spiked/
The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To
Germans believed that the billions they spent on renewables would redeem them. Many of them will insist that the renewables effort was merely “botched,” but it wasn't. The Energiewende was doomed to fail.
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