Germany’s nuclear option – a cunning plan?
A few weeks ago I took a train from Hamburg through Schleswig-Holstein and across a causeway to my mother’s childhood home in Westerland, Sylt – a stunning island on the German-Denmark border. As we trundled through the agricultural flatlands I could not blink but to miss 100 wind turbines or a score of solar arrays. Barns in the region were now it seemed routinely clad in solar panels. Neat: farm subsidies linked to producing green energy. It struck me with some shame…