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Mark Twain famously said that "Truth is stranger than fiction." Seldom have those words been more clearly illustrated than by the West's attempt to rid the world of fossil fuels.
In a supreme irony, the location of the first gathering aimed at that goal took place in the country now suffering the worst consequences of that virtually impossible objective. On March 1, 1995, the first United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 1) took place in Berlin. Thus began Germany's regrettable journey toward trying to become "carbon free."
Over the past decade, Germany has been shuttering its zero-emission nuclear power plants. That unfathomable decision was based on a plan to replace them with wind and solar power that, predictably, proved both prohibitively expensive and completely unreliable....