Germany Seeks Compensation for Nuclear Phaseout

[Midnight Mike]

There goes Kyoto

http://www.spiegel.de/international/ger ... 26,00.html (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,544926,00.html)


Germany plans to decommission its nuclear power plants by 2020. Now its finance minister wants the EU to reward the nation with a lower emissions reduction target.

German Finance Minister Michael Glos wants the European Union to allow Germany to emit more greenhouse gases in exchange for decommissioning its nuclear power plants.

The Handelsblatt reports that replacing energy generated by nuclear plants with power from dirtier sources, like the coal-fired plants that produce 80 percent of power in Germany, could raise emissions by 150 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.

[Matt Molnar]

Insane. Until someone figures out a way to make solar or wind energy production as efficient as nuclear, we should be building more nuclear plants, not shutting them down.

[Midnight Mike]

Insane. Until someone figures out a way to make solar or wind energy production as efficient as nuclear, we should be building more nuclear plants, not shutting them down.

My thoughts exactly. I found it surprising that they are looking to be rewarded for shutting down their nuclear reactors, that is clean energy.