Why are the Germans so anti-nuclear?

[Benni]

JMGS4 said:

good post!

NAS said:

Indeed. Gives me some insight into the minds of the people and their arguments. Thanks
(BTW: Interesting that you mention coal. I give it 10-15 years before the Ruhrgebiet is back in the coal mining business)

<---my first ever, thanks for your comments.
I know someone who is an electrician in one of the last remaining black coal mines,
he told me that the supplies last another 400 years.
Brown coal is mainly dug up in eastern germany, less in the Ruhrgebiet, but enough to need this :

[catso]

One of my most vivid recollections of German tourists of the '70s were of unwashed, long-haired hippies driving Citroen 2CVs with 'atomkraft nein danke' stickers on them....

[Halb]

Benni said:

Wasn't he in Transformers 2?

[Hugo a Gogo]

Benni said:

Brown coal is mainly dug up in eastern germany, less in the Ruhrgebiet, but enough to need this :
:big bagger:

the good people of Titz will be pleased to know they are in the Ruhrgebiet now

catso said:

One of my most vivid recollections of German tourists of the '70s were of unwashed, long-haired hippies driving Citroen 2CVs with 'atomkraft nein danke' stickers on them....

the stickers have made a massive resurgence in the last week or two, the 2CVs, less so

[elster]

Benni said:

JMGS4 said:

good post!

NAS said:

Indeed. Gives me some insight into the minds of the people and their arguments. Thanks
(BTW: Interesting that you mention coal. I give it 10-15 years before the Ruhrgebiet is back in the coal mining business)

<---my first ever, thanks for your comments.
I know someone who is an electrician in one of the last remaining black coal mines,
he told me that the supplies last another 400 years.
Brown coal is mainly dug up in eastern germany, less in the Ruhrgebiet, but enough to need this :

I doubt they will be carrying on for much longer at the same rate.

They just lost their EU subsidies for coal mining.

[JMGS4]

elster said:

They just lost their EU subsidies for coal mining.

EU Subsidies matter sweet feck all when the gas from Gazprom costs more than gaseous gold, and the electricity supply is endangered. DO you REALLY believe the green slime will do without heating or electricity???

We will ALL have to restart coalmining at some time, at the latest when the chinks and the Aussies realise they've got us over a barrel, and Gazprom starts blackmailing Europe!!

[Pat H]

Benni said:

Lots of stuff

Excellent post.

I particularly liked this bit about radioactive waste....

Benni said:

We still might send it to Windscale, in a V3.1, if it would make you feel better...

Which seems to encapsulate, in one sentence, how our respective countries feel about ze war and the subsequent peace.

There remains a whiff of Teutonic arrogance, whilst old Albion yearns for the days when stoic, mildly indignant Englishmen still had a country that was worth defending.

[elster]

JMGS4 said:

elster said:

They just lost their EU subsidies for coal mining.

EU Subsidies matter sweet feck all when the gas from Gazprom costs more than gaseous gold, and the electricity supply is endangered. DO you REALLY believe the green slime will do without heating or electricity???

We will ALL have to restart coalmining at some time, at the latest when the chinks and the Aussies realise they've got us over a barrel, and Gazprom starts blackmailing Europe!!

What has that got to do with at the moment no one can afford an unsubsidised coal source in Germany. In 2014 they expect to reduce numbers from 20,000 to approx 5,000

[RedLeicester]

youngsyr said:

bi-election

Is that a euphemism with a speech impediment?