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Germany Exports More Electricity Than Ever Despite Phasing Out Nuclear Energy
An anonymous reader writes "Der Spiegel reports that Germany has exported more electricity this year than ever before, despite beginning to phase out nuclear power. In the first three quarters of 2012, Germany sent 12.3 terawatt hours of electricity across its borders. The country's rapid expansion into renewable energy is credited with the growth. However, the boost doesn't come without a price. The German government's investments into its new energy policy will end up costing hundreds of billions of dollars over the next two decades, and it still relies on imports for its natural gas needs. It also remains to be seen whether winter will bring power shortages. Is Germany a good example of forward-looking energy policy?"
NO. I have read every single Slashdot story on nuclear power ever (totally not kidding) and so I know that you must NOT ask the Germans!
See, as I have been frequently told by high-modded, insightful slashdot comments, without nuclear fission we will soon be crouched in our caves, eating raw meat among the shattered remnants of our once-mighty civilization, destroyed by the lack of bountiful and cheap nuclear energy. So I know that has to be the truth, despite what any Germans with their liberal "facts" might have to say.
Furthermore, I have frequently been told by the slashdot hive mind that Greens hate all technology and all forms of energy generation (and, in fact, the few intelligent ones also hate America!). Germany has had a powerful Green party for decades, and has an active sustainability movement with political representation. This proves that Germans are just filthy American-hating Greens who want to take away our God-given right to pollute everything in sight, and they will lie about the fact that they are all starving over there, and shivering in their unheated hovels, because they have foolishly spurned the benefits of nuclear power.
Or, to put it another way, the German reality is not in conformance with the Slashdot/Fox News ideology of nuclear fission, and therefore they must not be heard!
It's the American way. Germans hate us for our freedoms.