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It's all by design!
Your argument is not fully correct. We shut down nuclear energy also, because after half a century we still haven't found a final storing area for our nuclear waste! That was the other main reason! We're not fully befoons...
Which also makes your argument as populistic as you described our decision to get rid of nuclear power. And we turned to gas not only because we wanted to, but because it was the cheapest choice at the time. I thought you were a neutral, very well researching channel, but this video turned me completely off. Unsubscribed... populistic as.hole
by getting Cheap Gas Money From Russia Underneath the sanctions?
Northsteam still functions, only 2 out of 4 pipes where damaged.
GERMANY shut down their end if the functioning Nothstream pipeline in a very public, televised, ceremony.
Germany once again expressing masterclass lessons on how to not do bureaucracy.
I mean the last time they had someone cut through bureaucracy a lot of people got really upset.
@vu4803O regime nazista era extremamente burocrático.
if this bureaucracy has helped us get to no. 3 largest GDP worldwide for years and basically top ten in any other metric, including corruption, maybe you should try it ;)
@christopherguiomar corruption? You are "helping" Ukraine....😂😂😂
@walterbrunswickThat's what he's saying as well, he's acknowledging the corruption in bureaucracy and is being cool about it
BASF is not "one of Germany's largest chemical companies". It's the largest chemical company in the world.
They don't make the products you buy. They make the products you buy _better_
It won't be long now… German politicians will make sure of that
“Since leaving public office, Schröder has worked for Russian state-owned energy companies, including Nord Stream AG, Rosneft, and Gazprom.”
The nepotism aside.. Russian natural gas made a lot of sense for Germany, however that doesn't mean they should have exited Nuclear and partially Coal and make themselves completely dependent on Russia.
@ordoabchao4202it did but as you say it also tricked the populace into coming off nuclear and coal. Coal is domestic and can be stockpiled so no energy shocks. They also effectively funded Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and then complained when it happened.
@deldia no, they didn't fund Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Russia had sufficient energy revenues anyway.
What they did however is give Putin a sense of security and confidence, that Germany would push for concessions to Russia early on, since they could have been blackmailed by Russia cutting off their gas supply.
That's why the Ukraine destroyed the NS2 pipeline. Putin also miscalculated the German willingness to run their economy into the ground.
As a sidenote: Merkel and von der Leyen also destroyed the German military. Merkel was a disaster for Germany on every level.
@o@ordoabchao4202h? The person buying always pays the highest price or then wouldn’t have it at all. Germany handed over endless billions to Russia over the years. Russia would be weaker without that money.
@deldiathe marginal revenues were not of significant relevance for the Ukraine war, the perceived power and dependency dynamics were.
Nuclear even with waste to relocate is still environmentally more friendly than burning gas and coal.
What really determines how "eco-friendly" an energy is isn't as much its source as the degree of corruption involved and the usage of that energy. Which is better, a toxic weapon factory powered by "renewable energy" or a hospital powered by coal....?
Tell that to the German people
I'm guessing they have been infected by the Coal and gas lobby like in Australia
One thing for sure: any student, who wants to go to Germany to learn Political Science or Economic Science, must think thrice! Otherwise, they would accidentally replicate the disaster Germany has when they go back home. 🙈
Its also realllly expensive to build and maintain nuclear powerplants
Same goes for nuclear waste
He didn't mention this but the country had a lot of problems with storing it
This what happens when people think with their hearts..... and not their brains
THe dummies allowed the EAST Germans to take over the country.
These are real 'First World Problems'
Feminization of politics with feelings cuz it’s mean and not fair so there!
Do they even have hearts?
women in leadership roles stink
She was a bot, she hated Germany, she loved Socialism but got pushed through the conservative party! Nothing of this makes sense
when you know merkel studied physics, its even worse
Yeah, studied physics in grammar school and dropped out after a week.
@erikvissers4934wrong, she also has a PHD
Yeah, but how that would have helped her, if the general public was against the nuclear energy?
Many times, politics don't care about your knowledge in science
I had a German a few months ago telling me she was correct about shutting down nuclear and used that she studied physics as proof she knows what she's doing, I used to think Germans were smart
Swiss here. The Leibstadt nuclear power plant uses the Rhine river as its water source inlet for the cooling towers and is located on the Swiss side of the Rhine river, right across the border to Germany. So in actuality, the Leibstadt power plant is not 5km from the German border, but less than 0.5 km.
Hilarious
Swiss could step up and contribute more to this problem - a few extra gigabytes of pumped hydro storage capacity would be a good start
@annarook55
Contribute more to this problem? What do you mean?
@ThalmorAgent-08I‘m also confused…
@annarook55any pump hydro plant examples?
'Hey guys, we spent billions making these power plants and have no plan on replacing the energy when we gain power, so we've decided to just throw billions of dollars and all of that energy away and trust us guys, it's for your own good'.
Problem is she painted herself into a corner and turning around and starting up nuclear power plants would show how much money was wasted so to cover up their failures they doubled down on idiotic policies
Claims to want net zero yet abandon the only feasible way for it.
Not even allowing for a transmission line to be built over ground is one of the dumbest ways to do net zero
@holdmybeer123 Talk to Bavaria and Söder on this one, you act like it's "the German government" that decided that lol
Net zero means people will have 0
Yeah, Green idiots, and now they're trying to blame anyone but their own incompetence
@lucaklpYou mean Schröder, Russia's Gazprom guy? Nice try, but you're fooling no one.
What is baffling to me is that many of these consequences were predictable and predicted day 1
top 3 GDP world wide in 2025, were doing fine sweetie ;)
@kitguiomar With the cost of living rising more - GDP doesn't tell you anything. But maybe my 800 Euro electrical bill makes me rich ? Or the 8 Euro block of very average cheese ? And regarding GDP, maybe you should take a look at his previous video.
well talk again in 2030 and then 2040 again
@kitguiomarhmm Bro , even Italy surpassed germany in this year
Merkel was eine evidente "FEHLBESETZUNG" (links-grün!)
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Thanks you put it perfectly into words! She ruined this country for everyone and especially for the younger generation.
I can't even believe the irony of the Greens supporting burning of fossil fuels!
They have 0 standards. I have proof.
than don't. it is a lie anyways.
@MusikCassettethey either support Germany maintaining nuclear, burning fossil fuels, or return to pre-industrial economy. Which is it?
It was temporary, the CDU/CSU however tried to prolong it as they are lobbied strongly by industries. Now they are trying to stop renewables and invest further in fossil fuel
@joeschmo9953 obviously neither of those.thinking those are the options, or those are even options reveals that you do not understand the Energy market in Germany.
Energy Policy: Failure
Defense Policy: Failure
Immigration Policy: Failure
Economic Policy: Failure
Exactly.
Self-sabotage: Success
It‘s very naive to think that all of this isn‘t intentional…
This is how Autocrats like that guy in 1932 gains Power VERY QUICKLY... Democracy fails the People, so the People try something else that sounds good and they end up in an even worse situation. Definitely Self-Sabotage
Yet, the Red/Green coalition still gets elected again & again.
Germany's defence policy has always been "let the US do everything for them"
Germany destroys itself, after 2035 when the ban on combustion engines hits the economy will explode
If you want to make a video to explain Germany's collapse, you are gonna need a longer video than this one, and it's not just nuclear.
Yeah it’s way more diverse. Especially the fact that we want everything stay the same and don’t want innovation while the world changed a lot, is hurting the economy way more.
But instead of trying to build good products for the markets, we pay a shit ton of bonuses to the rich car bosses
What collapse? Germany is still the most powerful economy in Europe. What are you all talking about?
russians jobs, Shroedder, Merkel, greenpeace....
Oikophobic xenophilia will be the death of western civilization. Thank feminism for starting that snowball.
@CharlyHoppenstedt This youtuber and most of the comment section like to smell their own farts
In retrospect Angela Merkel's decisions become more and more disastrous.
Not only in retrospective. People just didn’t want to hear it.
disastrous? :D were top 10 in any metric, often among the top 5. shut up with that populist crap :D
@kitguiomar obviously people don't want hear it now either.
The fact that she was elected time and time again makes it a self-inflicted wound
@kitguiomarYour GDP growth is 0.2%, your birthrate is under 1.5, and your energy production has dropped 17% since 2022. Your country is destined to die and the world will be better for it.
Finally someone who took the time to actually pronounce the german names correctly.
Unfortunately politicians are not being held responsible.
It's the russians that get the politicians to play with them with success in germany, like Shroedder, Putin's besty.
@kroooassant9899 Well, you could just blame it on the big bad russian (which is partly right) but let's face it: german politicians have been lacking in competence for years even without the interference of Russia, the US or lobby groups, they just take advantage of the most incompetent ones.
The point that politicians are not held responsible in any way (they sometimes even get bonuse) unfortunatly still stands even if there is outside intervention
i wanna see you make any reasonable political decision before you open your foul mouth lol
@kroooassant9899 keep this up, and people will start getting "Russia fatigue".
@applepiepieapple5464 you are deluded, this is youtube comment section come down to earth. "People" don't give damn and we are not even close to the noise Israel and Palestine did. I don't get fatigued and Russia has planned Ukraine since decades now, Germany is a russian tool they are sucking stoned without their gas. Hell, they can't even produce their own sausages now. Give yourself a break Vladimir I can feel the fatigue from here.
They're worried about the dreaded Baltic Tsunami.
They were worried about an Earthquake in a geologically stable area and a Tsunami IN LAND!
It’s easy, the unfettered spread of regressive leftism has taken its toll on dozens of countries. Lefties are desperate to destroy America as well!!
@thesuperintendent4290 Truly Wunderbar the mind of the German populace.
Not Cacao Engineers tsunami? 😂
Coming from mostly 'well-educated'(college) people too
In South Africa employees that work at the state owned utility company sabotaged the utility plants so that they can get government contracts to fix the utility plants that they sabotaged and they also charge the government inflated prices so that's why there're blackouts in South Africa and the economy has been growing below 1 percent since 2011.
I imagine Germany as a country is like telling a kid not to put his finger in a light socket and they do it anyways lol
Over and over again 😂
Their women are like that too
A comedy sketch of Inspector Clouseau proportions.
The kid didn't put his finger in the socket once, but TWENTY-SIX times!
Fortunately there was no power in the socket
This is what you get when you replace engineers with puppet politicians.
German engineering my ass !
Yeah, the current economic minister (aka Mrs. fossil fuel lobby) is a disaster, you are right
and she studied science 🙂
New German cars are trash
@SelfMadeThousandaire2026 The numbers very clearly say that is your fringe opinion
Why world’s best country USA is losing manufacturing to China then ?😂😂
Replacing an energy source with a presumed energy source was never going to end well
Wir schaffen das, wir schaffen das 😇 Ups, wir haben es nicht geschafft.
Und jetzt sitzt die Olle in ihrer Villa ohne Kontakt zur normalen Bevölkerung und macht sich ein entspanntes Leben. Sehr schade zu sehen wie Deutschland sich hätte entwickeln können wenn wir ein paar andere Entscheidungen getroffen hätte
Schröder 2005 nicht abwählen. Es war nur 1% Vorsprung für die CDU. Schade drum.
@gambit8248Hat Schröder und nicht an die Russen verkauft und sitzt jetzt bei Gazprom in Russland
@superfly_7077 Herr Schröder hat als Kanzler für Deutschland sehr gute Arbeit geleistet. Seine Vorgänger haben das auch getan. Russisches Gas war immer ein unverzichtbarer Rohstoff für die deutsche Industrie. Deutschland war ein Erdgas-Umschlagplatz für die ganze EU. Russland und Deutschland haben sich wirtschaftlich hervorragend ergänzt. Möglich, dass das anderen Ländern nicht gefallen hat. Ohne russisches Gas ist die deutsche Industrie am Ende.
Amen
*Ask anyone in Michigan and they will tell you, once industry leaves or closes, rarely do they ever come back.* 😔
Unfortunately that does sound true
@abskateboard It is, I fear for Germany's future.
Good thing we are in the EU, once it hits that point maybe I will try to move to another country that's doing better
😮 seeing these catch-22 situations of developed world sometimes i feel grateful to be born in developing country
@qwitz1717hard to find one nearby, maybe China or Canada?
I have absolute confidence in my governments ability to consistently do the opposite of what should be done.
This is what Thomas Sowell calls Unicorn Policy. Policies devoid of reality and implemented with the best of intentions and leave the poorest suffering the most.
Its insane giving how much praise they were giving themselves for shutting them all down and here we are.
Not me
I regret my part in this. I worked for what they called the “Energy Efficiency” program in 2010, it was about essentially a way to mislead the industry into thinking that the problem was their operations and not the need for nuclear energy.
Who else was responsible writing it? Did experts or scientists contribute?
@ceriol Me and a team of colleagues. We were tasked with this, by our bosses, it was not our resolution. It was because of listening to those “experts” that the country was put in such jeopardy. I do not know your angle here, but there is no experts when it comes to climate in the context of Germany, only activists.
the currenty economic state is caused by multiple problems - its not only due to the high energy prices
nuclear energy doesnt help to balance the volatile nature of renewable energy - a big part of high energy cost is due to fees called "netzentgelte" (which are used to upgrade and maintain the elecrcity grid and ensure stable supply with electricity) and taxes. Production cost wise, nuclear is much much more expensive than any renewable energy. having all the nuclear power plants from pre 2011 still running, this wouldnt help to keep down electricity prices. Renewables are replacing coal power plants.
I’m usually sympathetic to the idea that Western democracies really need to start electing more engineers and scientists rather than lawyers…until you realize Angela Merkel was literally a physicist!
But even more, she was an opportunist.
You still need to listen to the citizens when you're a politician
You need pro capitalist engineers. We need more Elons.
@TheSterlingArcher16Yeah, because that went great in the US 😂
@TheSterlingArcher16jesus christ, no.
1:00 Funny how the exact same thing happened in Sweden 🇸🇪 Red Green coalition shuts down Nuclear power plants, turned to Russia🇷🇺 for energy and building wind turbines from China 🇨🇳
Thats not (completely) true. The referendom started it, Economics was a part of it, we still have Nuclear power, sweden do not import energy from russia (in an signifikant amount), China winturbines exists but we do not rely on them
The difference is nobody really cares about sweden.
@cattieserio6386True, its a much smaller country and export more energy than it needs (mostly), so for Europe over all it dont mean that much
@cattieserio6386 Not even most of the Swedes apparently 😂
@cattieserio6386 yeah Volvos are not good cars anyway
Vote idiots and the waiter brings the bill!
who cares? important is: we can pat our own backs and virtue signal and feel great about ourself ...
and Made in China grows.
@drttgb4955 Im currently more fine with China than America at the moment
Very sad, Germany was clearly the main industrial engine in the EU.
Very soon it will be the new Mecca of the EU
And it still is, lol. It's obvious that growth is slow, but don't get it twisted: Germany is still the absolute top exporter and industrial leader in Europe and it's not close
No, German economy is collapsing, unemployment is skyrocketing, energy prices are still highest in the world. Industry looses 1000-1500 jobs per day!!!! Volkswagen just annoumced (as today!) 50.000 layoffs. 25% of bakeries bankrupt (energy too expensive). Migration comes on top. We are doomed here in Germany. Industry creates jobs abroad, car industry is collapsing. Look at the numbers. Poland is doing pretty good, but Germany became a mess (im from Germany). Not looking good. Socialist / green game here
It still is, its just the population has to pay for it 3 times over without any help from the goverment. See our fuel prices. The CDU is selling us off, we are one of the most taxed people in the world and right now its bad enough that i can savely say im currently working only to pay taxes right now
@repsforjesus3563actually we (Germany) are the only g20 industrial country with negative growth!! Its called depression.
I always forget somehow how close the fukushima incident was in time
Fun fact coal generators also release radiation over time, releasing even more deadly radiation compared to nuclear reactors
Almost *everything* emits radiation.
@yt.damian Especially after a five bean chili.
Neither coal plants nor nuclear plants release any amount of radiation that could be labeled deadly.
Nuclear power plants more-or-less don't release any radiation into the environment.
If either of these "releases deadly radiation", then we should never use them. Wouldn't everyone working there already be under ground if they were receiving deadly radiation every workday?
@ablazedguyRight i should clarify what I meant to say was coal power plants spew radiation such as fly ash directly into the atmosphere while nuclear produces nuclear waste in the form of spent fuel or contaminated PPEs but those are always handled with care compared to coal fired power plants
@SCMDR❤
Don't forget the average person knows way less about nuclear power than you and would think that nuclear power plants are some radiation-spewers from the wording.
Nuclear power is clean as long as you don't make them for cheap or don't lie about it's capabilities and it's environment (looking at you, Japan and USSR)
22% only for pensions?? In Italy it's 33%, and the national pension institute is short of 170 billions anyway
South Korea's Gen Z can't even expect any pensions but pay more for it.
Let’s not forget that the prime minister before Merkel, Schutz, was in the payroll of Putin..
"negative growth" lmao
de-growth? 😀
You will get to know Erdoganomic definitions pretty soon😅
that's an actual term used in economics
just call it a recession or depression and get over it lmao
@madflaka4087 A recession is sustained negative growth over a long enough period.
Canada said "hold my beer "
There's a saying that goes:
"Danke, Merkel!"
Shutting down perfectly working nuclear plants is quite unwise, as the majority of costs associated with such a power plant coming from the financing of the construction and the construction itself. They basically puhed many plant through the "hard part" just to turn them off during the "easy part". It seems like wasted potential.
Whilst quickly shutting down working power plants wasn´t wise they were already reaching their planned lifespan of 30-40 years. The oldest was from 1975 whilst the newest was from 1989. So at that point they hadn´t built a new one in over 20 years. Some could have been extended beyond the planned lifespan but long term new builds would have been necessary (with early planning as building one takes 6-10 years at least).
@einfachnurleo7099german plants were among the best in the world. They would've easily gone 80 years with a midlife refurbishment. American experience suggests that nuclear plants can not only be refurbished, but also uprated as technology and operating experience improves. Destroying those plants was an act of treason against Germany and the environment more broadly. Vast amounts of carbon wouldn't have been emitted if the plants stayed on-line.
@einfachnurleo7099 30-40 years?
Nuclear plants can run for 80 years or more.
They have an initial operating life of 30-40 years but can run for 80 more years.
And for what..? Because they are afraid of it because "die grüne" don´t understand it.. Because of ideology.
I lack words to describe their stupidity . . I wonder how many billions of euros they have wasted..
@chriswhite3692 suddenly not shutting them down would have send the signal, that you can not make long term political decisions.
that would be bad news for the phase out of coal power. the runtime were prolonged to a point where prolonging it further would have needed serious investments.
It's like an organization spanning throughout Europe is trying to make us dependent from someone else, hence to make us fragile and weak
Jews
Blackrock, shell, nestle etc. and their politicians(global elites, democrats etc). They were on to deindustrialize europe and bankrupt farmers so they can control and get cheap land. They would cause famine, energy and economical crisis over rioting nations or even bribe people to protest on street and sell it in media for regime change. Every populist/nationalist party cancelled discreditet and banned in the process.
@norbertbarsony4280and then impose new surveillance methods as a countermeasure to the ongoing riots and chaos…
@norbertbarsony4280 communists
no. It's just people being brainwashed by the left, and seeing the consequences of it. Latin America has been ruled by the left for decades, look where it got them.
"Germans stopped having kids 40 years ago" - Peter Zeihan
they started popping out engineers by default?
he's commentary is ass anyway..
Everybody has not had children anymore so what you’re talking
@BjkkknNo Muslims are breeding like there’s no tomorrow, but yes western countries are having less children.
@goldenfleece4314 most of them are having less now too they are a few decades behind
Nobody can convince me otherwise that the "Green Party" is just an oil lobby, why else would they be against Nuclear? The least polluting energy generation method.
Exactly, I never understood why the Green Party would be against Nuclear. I can sort of understand the skewed logic that its too dangerous and that someone would be against it. but the Green Party?
@coryhisey8431 because fear. they are against everything thats not green. But coal and gas kill slowly over years. while a nuclear accident is immedietly. also u have to know that the spd (their partner party) and the cdu (the party that pretty much ruled the last decades) are all on oil/gas company paychecks. i mean schröder ended up in gasprom....
German Green Party is being run by anglo-americans .. and their order is to sabotage Germany as much as possible
No, the "Green Party" is supported by Russia to weaken the EU
To me, they are simply a continuation of Nazi Germany’s pro-environment policies, but without the pseudoscientific elements. Prior to the war between Ukraine and Russia, Germany was effectively selling Europe out to Russia when it comes to energy needs.
Just like they sold half of the Europe to Soviet Union in Molotov Ribbentrop pact.
The economic problems are just a symptom of widespread stupidity, arrogance and greed.
Merkel destroyed Germany.
They laughed at Trump when he warned them years ago
@toggle2565 You mean the guy who is destroying the US? 😂😂
@Dark_Knight_7777by?
@Dark_Knight_7777ok but hows he destorying the US i asked you a question
And europe
"Its evolving... just backwards" Pewdiepie 2018 probably
Fantastic video. Thank you!
8:00 Ireland will soon be in the same position. A cable to France is nearing completion and it will carry nuclear electricity to Ireland, a country that has a constitutional ban on nuclear! You couldn't make it up.
oh, no...
The only BASF plant in the world in the red is the one in Germany
That's only one of our many problems.
The biggest one is that we have to many idealists who ignore reality entirely.
French energy might be cheap, but the national power company also increase its debt by billions every year. And in the next 10-20 years they can rebuild their 30 ageing reactors.
Part of the reason they're running a deficit is because they really should have never become a business in the first place. European liberalization laws have forced most state companies to sell cheap energy to 3rd party competitors, which in turn artificially lowers their profit margin. In France, it's something like 20% I think? This somewhat invalidates the use of that metric in this context.
EdF has made 2 figure billion Euro profits for 9 out of the last 10 years. Thus their debt decreases and the EBITDA to debt ratio is already low.
Nuclear power is more expensive than any other power source.
@nextfantasy9549 Yeah, if you "forget" to include system integration costs and CO2 price.
@nextfantasy9549Initial cost maybe but the cost of maintaining the plant and along with how cheap uranium is pretty cheap especially with how much energy you produce. It's also more reliable and doesn't require grid expansions to function at scale. Blackouts are extremely costly and often are unaccounted for when we consider the intermittent renewables. There is much you aren't factoring in there.
As a German, I can safely tell you that most Germans have no idea of what’s happening and, frankly, they don’t want to. Germany is insanely arrogant and delusional. Furthermore, the problems you mentioned are only the tip of the iceberg. Nearly everything in this country is failing, yet rather than fixing anything, or even discussing it, German society is busy with ‘Symbolpolitik’ (symbolic politics) and pushing the burden onto the next generation to deal with.
don’t worry. the same problem is occurring in the UK and other european countries.
Germans are naive. Fellow German here.
Germany always got very strong influence from Russia, they are deeply infiltrated, way more than Poland even. It is very easy for russia to manipulate Germaby, always has been, it was and still is. Greenpeace WAS a russian job back then, eveybody knew that except the germans for some reason, in France our services saw it coming and they were actively killing their agents until they got caught red handed. It is not a conspiracy, this is juwt how a country like germany ends up taking decision that makes absolutely no sens whatsoever like chosing to be hyper dependent on russian gas and rejecting nuclear sovereignty.
europeans in general are very ignorant and arrogant regarding politics
@kroooassant9899 Don’t be a fool. The Epstein files clearly reveal which group is running and ruining Germany and the entire west. The war didn’t stop in 1945. On the contrary, when they got stronger in the past decades, they infiltrated the whole western world (governments and mainstream media). In Germany they were even more successful doing so. And Germany was and is their main target as all of Europe will eventually collapse if it happens to its economic leader. Russia on the other hand has a strong intrinsic interest of a strong Germany as Germany was their biggest trade partner, particularly for Russian exports. So the stronger the German economy, the more resources they’d buy from Russia, the stronger Russia‘s own economy. This was at least the pre 2022 calculation. And who initiated the war in Ukraine can also be read in the files.
*Germany when they replace their nuclear plants with the sootiest coal on earth:*
"I have never experienced such a flavor"
The Germans kept the Roman's out for a 1000 years, and they're letting themselves be overrun from within 20, without a shot fired.
Socialism is more dangerous than Roman’s
@moritz1997me National Socialism more dangerous than them all.
Stop the noticing
@NebenbeiQuestwhat the fuck does this have to do with Jews? My god you people genuinely blame Jews for everything just to avoid responsibility.
Everything woke turns to Sh*t
10:16 Energy-intensive industries like chemical plants, glass, cement, and steel don’t mainly run on electricity - they rely heavily on natural gas. Gas is better for extremely high temperatures and is also a key raw material in chemical production.
That’s why they cut output or shut down when gas prices spike.
In 2024, German industry used 217 TWh of gas vs. 188 TWh of electricity. Households also use more gas than electricity each year.
So it’s not as simple as “less nuclear = more gas dependence = higher power prices.” The energy system is more complex than that
Exactly that. Now everything is dependent on the US: Energy, Defense, Media and IT.
The politicians always do as they get told:
Merkel getting spyed on - does nothing
Scholz being threatened to 'shut down' Nordstream - does nothing
and now Merz licking Trumps boots
They simply don't care what happens to Germany
Trump warned Germany in his speech in the UN General Assembly over its disastrous energy policy and its misguided reliance on the Russian gas. The German diplomats were laughing derisively at him. Surely, their smiles are wiped out now.
Nah we still laugh at Trump
Remember: Coal power has caused more radiation-related deaths than nuclear power.
Yes, sure 😂😂😂😂
How do you close everything before you have a replacement?
like idk about where you live every german has had access to affordable energy at all times :D and unlike pretty much any middle eastern or central american country, were at least able to feed ourselves haha
@kitguiomar Germans ruined electricity prices for all their neighbours. In Sweden we use electricity for everything, cooking, heating, etc... Prices are up 2x to 20x from what it was before, and we're told to suck it up because we share a common electricity market with ungrateful Germans. You should be cut off from the rest of Europe and see the damage your country has caused!
@SA-rb5xqlol the funny part is every pc channel talks about powee usage of cpus/gpus and they always use germanyto calculate cost savings with more efficient parts. I have some trouble believing him lol
Unbelievable. Very communist. Only the elite of politicians win. A lot of rich deals have been made. We cannot be that nahive. If he country is poorer iscthe population was replaced by muslims uf Russia is so strong while corporations like Pfizer became chinese🤔 maybe mrs Leyen has helped mrs Merkl in such strange and really bad decisions.
@ritacarmona7563 "Communist" "Elite of Politicians win" not how communism works bud. You are describing harsch Rep-Lib(markets) alliances.
Great analysis. You would never find this well thoughtout . logical explanation on US News outlets.
They didn't messed up its all by design
I think also
yes, they hate the german people. they are full of envy and hatred, but they will be consumed by the consequences.
All politicians are just governors put in place by the us. Look at the recent Merz Trump meeting. No backbone at all
Jews...
This is all WEF protocol.
And they are attempting the same thing in UK, Canada, Australia............
What you mean? UK is already deindustrialized
WEF seems to want everyone down for no reason. kinda makes this pointless.
Such a forum shouldn't even exist in the first place.
Shutdown or abandon wef
@hari4406no because the WEF people will still exist. They must go.
12:24 “politics over physics” spot on 😂
Removes nuclear, imports infinity liabilities with no checks and no way to remove most of them, forces other nations to share the negative impacts of the problems they cause. They're speed-running national and international failure
as a swiss I'm in constant surprise that germany is still around
gurl, i feel the same about switzerland :D
People also forget that the German energy transition is basically on end-level difficulty. Hardly any hydropower, no big mountains, limited coastline for offshore wind, and solar irradiation is relatively low. At the same time, nuclear power only made up about 12% of the electricity mix in 2020, yet it often gets talked about as if it would have solved all our problems.
Germany’s downfall since 2010s must be studied🥶
imagine being so economically weak that it is easier to be attacked by an adversarial aggressor
Thats all of Western Europe 😂😂😂
"Politics over physics" is especially funny when remembering that Angela Merkel was a physicist.
Mark my words, there will be grave consequences.
Sure, but not for the culprits.
it already is happening
@Mastinomama-q2mFor everyone involved, but likely the least for the orchestrators of this genocide.
Guys, Germany is by no means ruined😂
Yea, life quality is still pretty good and comfortable. Although I do worry about the future here
Mass unemployment by 2035 though
Every major country in recent history has gone through a phase like this. But I have faith that our German brothers will come through and do what Jeff Goldblum says life does which is "find a way"
I was literally saying the same thing in 2011 when Germany announced they’d close the nuclear power plants. Dr Merkel is a trained scientist, so she should have known better.
if only we had had you as our chancellor
She knew exactly what she was doing. She hates Germany and wants to see it destroyed
She knew better, but she was afraid of losing the regional election.
@s@sebastianhabel7312thank you very much for this important context that I was lacking- sounds a lot like Belgium where the country misses many opportunities, to satisfy the different regions.
Fun Fact: Germany and California has very similar energy grid. In fact, they worked together to set up the same wind and sun farms. California produces 3 times the amount of energy as Germany simply for the reason it is much more windier and sunnier in California.
The kicker is California is still lacking energy so they have to supplement it with oil/gas generators.
California imports about 30% of its electricity from other states, all of which us coal or gas fired. California does not produce 3x the energy, they just consume 3x.
@freddupriest576 they also get a significant amount of power from Hoover Dam, which they are entitled to despite not owning any part of it. The power from the dam should go to Nevada and Arizona. So in reality even more energy is actually imported from surrounding states.
Not really. The ridiculous wind farms and solar roofs disfiguring every building contribute only a tiny bit of California power less than 5 percent. Solar power is just a rip off.
1 The solar roofs power goes directly to the power company which sells it back to the building owner at a big profit.
2 Those panels need a lot of cleaning and care. And they deteriorate and need to be replaced about every 15-18 years at tremendous cost.
3 The panels are all made in China standard shoddy Chinese crap.
4 The deteriorated panels taken off the roofs and replaced are now piling up in dumps all over the state. And considered hazardous waste.
5 California is more than 700 miles long facing the Pacific Ocean. The northern 400 miles along the coast are covered in fog and clouds almost every day.
Solar panels are a giant rip off and those piles of discarded panels are hazardous waste.
Wind power
1 those wind mills kill millions of birds a year So much for environmentalists.
2 The windmill farms contribute only a tiny but of electric and heating power.
Wind and solar power are useless.
Northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin have very long cold winters. That area is served by nuclear reactors. The cost of winter heat in N I Illinois and S Wisconsin is about half the cost of winter heat than in the San Francisco Bay Area
Due entirely to the nuclear power plants in N Illinois and S Wisconsin
January Chicago Ill and Kenosha Wi 10F below at night 15F above during the day.
January San Francisco Oakland San Jose 48F at night 65F during the day.
N. Illinois S Wisconsin nuclear powered heat and electricity half the cost of Central California heat bills even with the useless solar roofs and environmentally destructive wind mills.
NO waste has ever left any US nuke plant. 100% stored onsite.
I, as a German, think that you miss several key points in your video:
* The anti-nuclear movement, although strong and very vocal, never were a majority in Germany.
* Merkel decided to reinstate the nuclear-phase-out with gay abandon, because the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident happened a few months before there was a state election in Baden-Württemberg, which was very close between a CDU (Merkel's party) candidate and a Bündnis 90/die Grünen (anti-nuclear party) candidate.
* German nuclear power plants were never "dangerous" or "risky", but instead the safest ones in the world. This extends so far, that the design of Fukushima Daiichi as it was still operated in 2011, was rejected as "too unsafe" by the German nuclear regulator in 1969. All German nuclear power plants were more protected against tsunamis than Fukushima Daiichi ever was.
* Germany is one of the least sunny and least windy regions on earth, has already used up all hydropower potential and has one of the higest energy consumptions per area in the world. It is fundamentally unfeasible to supply Germany with renewables.
Why would y'all even consider dropping nuclear for windmills. That is just the dumbest thing I've seen Germany do. I'm not even hating because I have much love for my place of birth. It's just weird to see a country commit suicide.
@malikjackson9337 Were acting like most people had a choice in this.
Also, Germans already don’t have or use AC in many residential buildings. It was already a “green” country. They went too far
@malikjackson9337liberalism, that’s why.
@eeurr1306 I'm saying this in a democratic sense. Why vote for this?
I’m Australian, and tell you that from my observations, the observations of all my friends who are into the same observations, can tell you, hand on heart, that 9 out of 10 vehicle breakdowns on our road (mechanical breakdowns) are German cars. Remember, my personal observations began 30 years ago, when a friend of mine suggested I observe it for myself.
You mean they are WORSE than British
cars...?!?! ( Not that we actually make cars nowadays..!! ) 🇦🇺👍🇬🇧
@2msvalkyrie529Let me tell you, British Cars were excellent cars, once, when they actually built cars. Those cars are still running today and can probably run for another hundred years. I think they still build the Qashqai, Aston-Martin and a handful of other cars, which you won’t see breaking down on the road.
I'm German and I prefer Japanese cars to overpriced German trash.
talking to an average german about nuclear woman makes me wanna pull my hair out
Thats why I am so mad about nuclear energy in germany . All people see it as evil, but have no idea about the safety and the importance of nuclear reactors.
many people also just dont seem to realize that theres nuclear reactors all around us
Saltreactors can Not fail. Nobody seema to know😢
It's also the most expensive energy source
@loradhd9514 😂
@loradhd9514and also one of the stablest and produces the most
The underlying issue, I believe, is deeper and has very little to do with economic or political policy making. Having spent time in Germany and keeping contact with several Germans, it seems to me that they feel a "moral obligation" to subscribe to certain narratives in order to cleanse the stigma of their past transgressions; they feel the need to constantly apologize. This is being felt in their energy policy, their politics, their attitudes towards the Israel-Gaza conflict etc.
They know that they are in decline, but they are perfectly willing to see it though, because they believe that they deserve it. Its sad to see really.
and that has made us poor?? are you even using your brain? :D
Not me or anybody I know. Also take some guesses at whos responsible for german stigmas to this day.
I don't know anybody who thinks we deserve the downfall. What are you talking about. Yes we remember our past but we won't sacrifice our country because of our wrongdoing. We just keep in mind that we did something really bad. A trait which countries like the us, China or Russia don't share.
And you didn't mention one of the most important drives of Germany: perfection. Nuclear power isn't perfect. Renewable energy, if efficient enough, is.
Bring back German mustached men to save the day.
As a German, you are 100% correct. We flood our country with people with values completely incompatible with democracy and people keep defending that. Several politicians have publicly stated, that they want less Germans and nobody is outraged. Everyone lives in fear that the next mustache man may rise to power and is therefore easily controlled and completely happy with destroying their own country.
Nice infomercial for nuclear energy, but it would be nice if they said its an infomercial
One more Thing: Germany had an Economic Boom in the early 21st. But instead of investing that money in Infrastructure, Schools, etc. they invested in Social Wellfare, which is not Sustainable espeacially, when the population is getting older.
They invested nothing anywhere. All profits get pocketed by the 1% and corrupt politicians like everywhere else
They mostly invested in letting the rich get richer at the expense of everybody else
Thanks!
Very informative and well articulated report thank you!
Imagine wanting to de-industrialize intentionally
Well Germany may not have power but their bureaucrats got a photo op laughing at Trump for telling them not to rely on Russian oil. So they can take comfort in that.
Maybe-just maybe-while we’re busy with fragmented analysis, something is going exactly according to plan.
Germany always subject to excessive idealism.
more like moronism
more like excessive stupidity
implying you can't be idealistic and scientifically literate at the same time...
@glynnec2008 haha the envy :D
@ValterStrangelove4419 You can't it's an oxymoron
The green party in Germany is compromised of fear mongers. They took the Fukushima incident to abolish nuclear power overnight and recently they blew up the offline power plants so the next generation will not be able to turn them online again
False. Merkel II (Conservative) was the Cabinett to shut them down fast after letting them work a little longer than formerly allowed by the Green party under Schröder, - the same greens that allowed for LONGER lifetime than they wanted to make sure it is a smooth pathway towards renewables.
@RawmanFilm Irrelevant response.
The Greens have consistently advocated for ending nuclear power and shaped public opinion against it for decades, even if the final acceleration decision was implemented by Merkel’s government.
It doesnt matter who pulled the trigger at the end, the green party is responsible for most of the disinformation regarding nuclear energy
@chrizzlyx
You’re conflating long-term political positioning with the actual legislative decisions.
Yes, the Greens have opposed nuclear power for decades.
That’s part of their platform.
But the accelerated phase-out after Fukushima in 2011 was enacted by a conservative-led government that had just months earlier extended reactor lifetimes.
That reversal was not a Green cabinet decision.
Also, decommissioning follows statutory nuclear law and regulatory procedure.
It’s not a matter of theatrically “blowing up” plants to prevent future generations from switching them back on.
Any restart would require full relicensing regardless.
Criticize the anti-nuclear stance if you want, but the timeline and responsibility for the binding decisions are more complex than you’re presenting.
@RawmanFilm Actually no. The Nuclear Exit Law was made under the coalition of SPD and the Greens.
If you take out Merkel of this equation the situation today would be the same, Germany would have got rid of Nuclear power anyways
@chrizzlyx
You’re repeating the 2000 phase-out agreement, which I never disputed.
My point was about the 2011 acceleration. The original exit framework was negotiated under the SPD-Green coalition. In 2010, Merkel’s government extended plant lifetimes. After Fukushima, that same conservative-led cabinet reversed course and legislated the immediate shutdown of eight reactors and the accelerated exit timeline.
So no, this isn’t about “removing Merkel from the equation.” The legally binding acceleration and immediate closures were enacted by her cabinet. That’s a distinct political decision.
You can argue that Germany would have exited nuclear eventually under the 2000 law - that’s a counterfactual. But the concrete, rapid shutdown in 2011 was not a Green cabinet action. Mixing those two steps is what keeps distorting the discussion.
stop twisting to be angry about it.
To be clear, the "marginal cost" of renewables is not even CLOSE to zero - maintenance for both wind and solar is quite high. In addition, the opportunity cost of the land used for energy instead of farming has to be accounted for. My personal belief is that renewables will never achieve close to parity with other forms of energy. The big bill will come up soon when all those turbines and solar panels reach their end of life. Also, Germany has not accounted for the environmental affects - wild life suffers.
Nuclear Energy is the most efficient form of Energy buildout, Germany really shot itself in the foot with that one
Nukes are far and away the most-expensive way to generate electricity. Sure, borrowing $30 billion to build a pair is very "efficient" for the bankers.
@FloyceWhite Longterm they are more sustainable, they promote local economic growth by supporting job creation. Relying on nonrenewable resources in the 21st century is ridiculous and short-sighted. Germany is already suffering as a result. Every country should aim for Desalination Plants and Nuclear Energy.
@anonymousanonymous6796 Can you read? Nuclear is one of the more expensive electricity generation methods if you take into account the construction costs. And it also doesn't create many jobs, especially not compared to Renewables.
@lucaklp construction is a job, nonrenewables mainly enrich our enemies in foreign nations like Russia or Saudi Arabia or Iran. Nuclear Energy is independence
@anonymousanonymous6796 Hold up, renewables enrich Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran? Renewables is not a new word for oil and gas my g
The chart at 4:59 is absolutley misleading. It shows Peak price, but doenst say how long that price was or what the avg. price in that year was. On the french goverment statistics website it states a avg anual price of electricity for 2024 as about 280€/mwh and for germany in the same period it was about 400€/mwh. Its kinda misleading to think its about 6 times higher when this is only looking at peak power during 1 month of november 2024 where it was extremly bad... If you for example look at the german electricity prices on the stockmarket for example, they where at 70-80€/mwh in 2024, due to export of alot of renewables you couldnt use due to unsatisfactory storage capacity. But it clearly shows that there is potential in the technology. However transformation in a beurocracy like germany counts not years but eons.... Thats where we really need to do our homework. also the 800€/mwh would mean its about 80ct/kwh, no one in germany payed 80ct on the killowatthour.. it was 40ct which is still waay too much, but nowhere near your numbers.
it was probably added "for dramatic effect" 😂
Ich habe noch keine echte Meinung zum Thema. Aber solche Einseitigkeiten machen mich skeptisch, was dieses Video angeht. Es gibt seltsamerweise auch viele zynische Deutsche, die es gut finden würden, wenn "die Politik" (auch das Land?) richtig scheitert und gegen die Wand fährt. Und ich verstehe noch nicht, warum.
@simple-brawlstarsfor emotional manipulation
What’s your actual point here?
@evanjames2566 its simple, my point is that the numbers depicted are not not acurate (80ct/kwh), painting a picture far far wrose than it actually was. And even these Extrem prices of 40 ct/kwh (wich i mentioned in my comment above) where gone relatively quickly. I wouldnt necesarily say its purposefully done, its just a mistake i wanted to point out since it wasnt shown properly in this video, at least thats what i think...
You have so many great videos. Kudos for making this video aswell. I am a Swede, our earlier governments are not far behind the retardation of german governments. Shutting down fully functional nuclear power plants. And the german actions is causing mayhem on the entire European electric grid.
I cross-checked with google maps, and one of the Swiss Nuclear plants is literally on the border (the one showed at 7:58 )...
後悔先に立たず Kōkai saki ni tatazu
Meaning: Regret does not come first.
I heard that in summer, Germany has to pay Austria to get Germany's surplus electricity
I heard that Santa lives in Lapland
You are right. It is not a joke.
Fact check: 7:37 Prices never reached 1000 EUR/MWh in AUG 2022 but were back to 90 EUR in Nov 2024.
One of the many fact checks this video would need