Germany generating so much windpower today that price for electricity will fall... below zero

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32. Deciding to phase out coal as a source for power plants WAS a rough choice.

It was especially rough in light of the decision to phase out nuclear power as well--a hard choice, but the right one. And it is still a major industrial economy. You should have seen what the air was like here in the fifties, or even in the mid eighties in the Ruhr area. The whole place stank of brown coal. That is now a memory. This country has accepted that coal mining is a dying industry, and that it is one with a finite future. Even if all steps on that road have not yet been mapped out, the goal is there--one we would do well to adopt, rather than have a bunch of coal miners pose in the oval office. The symbol of Trump giving them one pen to share among them as a souvenir was not lost here as an indication of how much he understood what he was up to.