Inventor promotes low-power lifestyle with electricity-free appliances

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7. More avoidance?

I'm sure that somebody somewhere falls for it.

The "reasoning" has not a thing to do with nuclear or fossil industry spin. It has not a thing to do with what you or I would prefer Japan's energy choices to be now or in the future.

It's a simple statement of fact. Unless they get incredibly lucky weather from M. Nature... they don't have enough power. That will have an impact on their GDP. The government is reaching out now to let regional governments and businesses know in advance that many of them need to get ready for significant sacrifice and there have been lots of reports of manufacturers planning to shift production overseas (though certainly the strong Yen is encouraging that move as well). The ones that aren't are installing large backup generators (Hey! You love a distributed grid, right???).

Their trade deficit has been hitting records (after decades of surpluses)... you do know that dents GDP too, right?