It wasn't clear to the people (at least to me) that moving away from nuclear energy was a bad idea, but nowadays I think it should be. And to be fair, back then Germany should have listened to experts because they already knew.

Now betting on fusion sounds like Germany doesn't want to acknowledge that it was a mistake. "We were right, we're just moving to fusion right away". Except that fusion is nowhere ready. And nuclear fission is not as big a problem as people thought.

Germans don't shift. The execute stages of precisely calculated, long-term plans which are need-to-know for multi-functional, cross-sector reasons across existing, predicted and emerging industries and cultural and sub-cultural developments.

It took me a while to understand why it looked like it was the "left" and the green parties that fucked up a golden energy future, but now I understand. With the "more right" parties and style of governance, things will get better, which would not have happened if the former wasn't also true.

Well played.

"While commercial fusion is still roughly a decade away"

Gonna need more than a few citations for that, Ken.