In the late 1970s, the first major protests against nuclear power had already taken place in Whyl and Brokdorf. Perhaps no other publication better reveals what the arguments against nuclear were back then than the original book Energiewende. Craig Morris was mainly surprised at the early focus on overall efficiency. In the late 1970s, at a time when German politicians were claiming that, without nuclear, the lights would go out, the authors of Energiewende said that electricity (the only thing that nuclear produces) is not the problem: “Germany’s energy problem is how we will get affordable heat and fuels in the future. No wonder that the citizens of our country are not so worried about the lights going off next winter but are more concerned about heating their homes and filling up their cars.” And even today, everyone continues to talk about the rising cost of electricity even though the price of oil and gas continues to rise much faster. Repeatedly, the authors argued that nuclear remains marginal, though tons of money has been thrown … Continue reading Looking back at the Energiewende 1980 – Nuclear Cannot be Efficient