Race to replace nuclear power, coal puts strain on Germany

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Over the next three years, the government will also shut down all seven active nuclear plants in the country.....The about-face in German energy policies was triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in 2011, when a major earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear accident at the power plant about 300km north of Tokyo, and the anti-nuclear protests that later broke out in Germany.

Nuclear energy, once supplying a third of the country's power needs, today provides a little more than 10 per cent of the national energy mix.

Last week's decision by the coal commission will also mean an end to brown coal mining, which now provides 32,000 jobs,

Wind power, largely generated in the north, has to be brought to the south, with new power lines which connect to power grids....But people have protested against the construction works, citing the damage to nature.

Qn: Can we rely on science and technology to solve our environmental problems?