The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To

Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment," Green Book Award Winner, and President of Environmental Progress, a research and policy organization. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Nature Energy, and PLOS Biology. His TED talks have been viewed over 1.5 million times.

And Der Spiegel is the largest circulation weekly magazine in Europe, known for its investigative journalism. 

For the proposed cost of $4 trillion on renewables, mention d in the article, which will actually not be enough to wean off coal, Germany could build twice as many reliable nuclear power stations, as it needs. In other words money left over, after installing clean and reliable long term energy.

But no. Mad Mutti Merkel has set Germany on a path to get OFF nuclear power entirely. This is insanity of the first order. 

Merkel's legacy: 

The dangerous and costly decision in 2015 to allow in millions of undocumented migrants, regardless of claims or background. 

The decision after Fukushima meltdown to take nuclear power out of the mix. 

Way to go Mad Mutti! Here.