April 5, 2011
Published: 3 Apr 11 11:23 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110403-34147.html
A majority of Germans would sacrifice a certain level of quality of life in order to close down the country’s nuclear power stations, according to a new survey.
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Which one is it?
Go and try to take any German family back to the 1930s style of living and watch how quick they change their tune.
I dread to think how much energy has gone into delivering flowers for the English Mother's Day today.
In B-W, they need to cut back on 60% of their electricity use to be nuclear-free. The measures you note wouldn't be enough.
Manufacturing would have to scale down massively. Of course the products would still be in demand, so the population would tend to migrate along with production, if it's still reasonable to do so. B-W without Mercedes, Porsche, Audi, Bosch, ...
Sure they'd achive the necessary energy cuts. But there'd be nobody left to actually produce wealth to pay real taxes, not just taxes on money handed out by social engineers.
The nuclear fears are totally irrational. Pumped up by fear-mongers who benefit from people making irrational decisions.
if EnBW were totally privately owned, they could shut down all their nuclear power stations as a demonstration of the consequences that the alleged 30% wanting to take an immediate exit.
Not a very good poll.
However that said it is showing the knee-jerk reaction to a earthquake in Japan.
If Germany had a quake on that scale it would have big problems with or without
nuclear power plants .Also the country is surrounded by plants do they intend to force their closer to ?.
I agree with the points raised by pepsionice,Obreption,and berfel, and cannot see any alternatives to nuclear yet but when there is one I am sure we will welcome it.
I fear that this headlong rush into the abandoning of nuclear energy signals a "top" of the current economic cycle and will if enacted, lead to much greater harm and deprivation for Germany going forward.
Unfortunately in politics momentum is a greater factor than intelligence and leadership!
Not a very good poll"
Indeed 501 people is not alot, the headline is rather misleading. But what happened to the missing 6% and were all those asked actually "German" which they claim?
Love how the religious throw their opinion in, saying that the technology "could not be trusted", well in Japan wasn't the catastrophe caused by the Earthquake/Tsunami? So surely it is their god that can't be trusted.
1. cut down on fancy lightings! just use a single lightbulb with energy saving features.
2. stop watching silly TVs. ditch those energy intensive CRT, LCD, Plasma or LED TVs. Use an battery operated iPad/Mobile phone instead.
3. ditch the high powered Hifi, listen to battery operated iPods/Mp3 players instead.
2. Why watch anything at all. Play board games, play card games, stare at the stars or at the moon.
3. Why use electronics at all? Try to sing. If you cannot sing, try learning to play an instrument.
4. Why turn the radiators on? Make a nice cosy fire.
5. While you're at it, buy 2 horses and a carriage. Ditch that metal four wheeled vehicle.
That's why we evolved x thousand years, to go back to sitting in the dark again. Technology is the devil!!!
Especially the part about the planned warning markers, a "Message to the future" that is to be built there all around the disposal site.
A warning message supposed to be written in words and pictures and in several languages.
Not written down on paper or printed on signs.
These things do not last long enough to fulfill their job.
Encarved into stone so that i may last for 10.000 years after which this place will still be a deadly danger.
A message that is supposed to last longer than the egyptian pyramides, hopefully will still be there and understandable in 10.000 years , no matter what language people will speak by then, or if people will have forgotten about this place thousand of years ago.
No matter if the USA , countries or even civilisation as we know it will still exist by then. The waste stored there will be still there and will still be toxic and radioactive, so much is certain.
A warning that will continue to tell people for 10.000 years a message that will be still as valid as on the day it was created by people who long turned to dust.
"STAY AWAY ! THIS PLACE CONTAINS AN INVISIBLE DANGER THAT WILL HURT OR KILL YOU IF YOU GO THERE"
If humans will still be there that time from now, they will certainly curse us all for what we have left behind for them to deal with in our unlimited shortsightness.