Yup I go by stupid is as stupid does. 

Germany is a representative democracy whose elected members should have been using reason in legislation but instead followed the hysterical mob. Witness the destruction caused by the Brexit vote and BC's transit referendum. 

Trump's visceral hatred of government regulation may be just the ticket to a science based nuclear revival - serendipity.

In the US, 97% of the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are lawyers 3% scientists and engineers.  Big Oil owns American politicians like Obama to the point that it takes only a few months to get approval for a gas plant that will murder thousands of its local neighbours with air pollution while a nuke plant that may save tens of thousands of lives by replacing a coal facility takes ten years to gain approval.

Here's real science, peer reviewed and published in reputable journal, denouncing Merkel's wind/solar plan.

Google "renewable-energy-national-academy-matt-jacobson"