German decided to shutdown nuclear power plant well before Fukushima disaster. Siemens has sold its nuclear department to the French. Fukushima just convinced finally without doubt about nuclear fission energy.
With all those PV cells all around Germany and Benelux houses just make sunny Sunday the nightmare of electricity grid managers. In those hot and sunny Sunday, there is a lot of electricity available, but no one to buy it. To compensate the PV cells (and also for the wind) when the weather is cloudy or not windy, they are burning tons of lignite which is worst than coal regarding pollution. The picture isn't as nice in Germany as we could see at a first glance. Arnaud
