Nuke Power

 In the past year, a lot of chatter has come up within the EU over the idea of saying natural gas/nuke power.....are sustainable, and should be supported.  

Chief reason for this chatter?  If you glean through all of the news outlets....this goes to two consequences....higher cost for electricity and potential blackouts.

If you live in Germany....you are accustomed now to the idea that there might be two or three extremely short blackouts each year.....usually 30 to 60 minutes in length and tied to a weather issue.  I had a conversation in the mid-1980s with a German who talked to the issue in the mid-1960s....that folks generally expected a couple of four to eight hour blackouts each year.  

The average German, if confronted today with a 8-hour blackout....would ask a lot of stupid questions.  Personally, I think the politicians and electrical companies would prefer to avoid stupid questions, and most likely have arrangements to buy power off the French or Polish electrical grid.....at higher prices.

If the EU were to ease (force) the German government into accepting nuke plants?  It'd be a shocker to some folks.  But here's the chief problem....there's so much money and effort tied into shutting down the German nuke plants....that if the EU says nuke power is 'clean' and agreeable.....it would cost a ton of money to revamp the plan and bring nuke power back onto the grid.  That extra cost?  It'd go right onto your electrical bill.  

So it's something you ought to view from a distance, and wonder how the EU will handle this for 2022.