Why Germans won’t heat their homes even with free electricity?
I'm rather a noob in the topic, but I've been reading in recent months about energy market and it seems like a collective insanity in the light of the climate crisis.<p>- In most(whole?) Europe, electricity used by trains is taxed higher than jet fuel used by planes (legacy measure from decades ago which was meant to boost air market; of course now it's hugely difficult to change it)<p>- Germany went strongly into renewables which is laudable, but CO2 footprint barely changed, because...<p>- Going away from nuclear and into renewables is in theory good, but the open secret is that <i>you can never reach 100% renewables</i>. So you need a backup, which is either gas or coal. In fact Germany even recently invested in new coal powered plants.<p>- Basically the effect of going away from nuclear is increasing CO2 emissions, and this is the last thing that we want at this time. But even Macron wants to reduce nuclear % in power production of France. Which means more CO2.<p>Am I missing something or this is total madness?