“They spread misinformation” The Nobel Prize winner for physics and Obama’s minister attacks the German Greens, and not only them
Now the more radical Greens, those against everything, are starting to get into trouble, because they find themselves in contradiction with the more moderate wing . The American winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics Steven Chu criticized Germany's abandonment of nuclear power in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung", reported by " Welt ", and invited Berlin to reconsider its energy policy decisions.
Heavy industry, especially the chemical and petrochemical industries, have factories “ that don't just turn on and off like: Oops, we're without electricity right now, so let's close them for a day. Even an assembly factory, an automobile factory or a semiconductor manufacturing plant requires extremely stable energy ,” Chu said.
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Society, especially its most environmentalist and extremist fringe, must understand that these industries need cheap electricity, 24 hours a day. “ And if they don't get it, they will suffer a significant impact. This could lead to an exodus of heavy industry from Germany, which would be catastrophic for the German economy. So when individual people say they don't want this, they don't want that, they don't want nuclear energy, they don't want coal, they can do everything with renewable energy, then these people obviously reject the building of semiconductor factories, chemical factories or cars ,” confirmed Obama's Nobel Prize-winning friend, confirming what most people of good will think, except the German Greens and Merkel, who closed German nuclear power plants.
Chu served as US Energy Secretary under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, so he's not a MAGA climate change denier. Chu asks the Germans: “ Do they want a prosperous economy, do they want to maintain jobs and prosperity and at the same time achieve their climate goals, or do they simply want to achieve their climate goals? “If you want both, then nuclear power “ doesn't seem so bad anymore ,” Chu said. An essential question because at present the Greens, and not just the German ones, have been very good at always saying no, but have not been able to offer solutions truly capable of improving the well-being and wealth of citizens.
Chu has sharply criticized the Greens. “ A lot of misinformation comes from the Greens. If these people were reasonable, which many are not, then they would prefer nuclear energy to the alternative, namely gas-fired power plants, whose greenhouse gases must be captured ."
Those who want natural gas without capture aren't really interested in climate and sustainability, Chu said. The Green Party's position is not compatible with " our future reality," Chu said: "increasing prosperity, increasing energy demand ." But this energy must be clean, otherwise Germany would have to use coal-fired power plants.
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