A card-carrying member of the renewable energy, Green scheme, and climate change cult is going to have to explain this to me like I was 5 years old, and, even then, I probably won’t understand, because it is simply incomprehensible.

And pretty unforgivable.

I’m going to present it in graphic form first because it’s boatloads more powerful than all the rantin’ I am fixing to do.

Please watch as Germany self-immolates. The green lights extinguishing are the remaining nuclear power plants in the country shutting down permanently this weekend.

Not because they’re BROKEN or anything.

Just because.

End of Nuclear power in Germany this week.

Energy production from 2000 until today.

Germany is in the process of shutting down economically, making their electric grid MORE expensive and less competitive. Companies are more likely to build elsewhere. pic.twitter.com/zDkGDennrK

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) April 14, 2023

“Cut your nose off to spite your face” is a phrase for a reason. Of course, it’s hard to see your nose in the dark, but it does hurt less if it’s cold when you start slicing.

For 35 years, the Emsland nuclear power plant in northwestern Germany has reliably provided millions of homes with electricity and many with well-paid jobs in what was once an agricultural backwater.

Now, it and the country’s two other remaining nuclear plants are being shut down. Germany long ago decided to phase out both fossil fuels and nuclear power over concerns that neither is a sustainable source of energy.

The final countdown Saturday — delayed for several months over feared energy shortages because of the Ukraine war — is seen with relief by Germans who have campaigned against nuclear power.

35 years and millions of homes with power, all for a – how’d they phrase that – ah, yes. “Hydrogen future.” Tough on the here and now, since they have hydrogen jack all running right this minute (one section of the country says it’s coming online this fall), but why quibble?

…Critics have warned that without nuclear power, Germany will have to rely on dirty coal and gas plants for energy during periods of overcast but calm weather — a condition for which Germans have even coined a new term, Dunkelflaute.

The government has dismissed such concerns, arguing that thanks to Europe’s integrated electricity network, Germany can import energy when needed while remaining a net exporter.

Europe’s had a time with natural gas this year, haven’t they? Seems like you might not want to rely on that if you had any possible reliable alternatives. So one would think, merely judging by current events.

Oh, yeah – and about that more coal thing, with it being dirty and the Devil and stuff. Sure makes sense to shut down clean, reliable nuclear because of ONE tsunami event – those haven’t been a real problem in Deutschland – and fire up the dirty coal plants which are fed by land-destroying coal mines.

Dirt, dirt, dirt – I thought we were anti-dirt, Green people?

Guess not.

The town where Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher grew up is facing a tragic fate.

The village with only 12 residents, will be torn apart to make way for Germany’s largest open-pit coal mine, leaving almost nothing standing.

…The village is being flattened thanks to the Hambach surface mine, despite a statutory plan in Germany to phase out coal in 2029.

The excavators are expected to reach the town in 2024, wiping out everything bar three exceptions; the church in the village, Schumacher’s childhood home, and the legendary Erftlandring go-kart track.

If you’ve ever seen an open pit coal mine, you know dey fugly. They also have problems associated with them because of the way they’re constructed with run-off, etc – it’s not just the mine, it’s everything around it.

The German government and lunatics leading the renewables charge could care less. Nothing is more arrogant than a dismissive, “DONE DEAL” brush off, right?

…Wolfgang Kubicki, deputy leader of the Free Democrats, said in an interview with the Funke Media Group that Germany has the safest nuclear power plants worldwide and switching them off would be “a dramatic mistake” with painful economic and ecological consequences.

Others have said that the nuclear plants should be maintained as a fallback in case they are needed at a later date

But Scholz spokesperson Christiane Hoffmann told AP:

“The nuclear phase-out by April 15, that’s this Saturday, is a done deal.“

What an awkward time for a new MIT study to drop about the effects of shutting down nuclear plants. I’m sure the school could be painted as industry shills…or racists or something.

This Saturday, the last of Germany's nuclear power plants will be prematurely retired. While The Green Party and anti-nuclear movement celebrate this, we have to ask:

Are the resulting increased deaths really a victory? pic.twitter.com/BLh5Y6SURy

— Zion Lights (@ziontree) April 13, 2023

So dirty coal it is and whatever weird renewable they’re test-driving this month to see if it works.

Auf wiedersehen and danke schön to the nuke plants for decades of simply humming along, doing the job.

If this is German engineering, you can keep it.