Going green

The anti nuclear movement started in the 1970's in Germany. At that time Germany had 25 operating nuclear power plants. Going green was an emotional grass roots movement and was aimed at replacing fossil fuel with wind and solar. Determining if there was sufficient wind and sunshine was an after thought and it was discovered too late that there was a shortage of both. Germany's plan was to use wind and solar with a back up of natural gas and so they set about shutting down all their nuclear power plants along with their coal plants. When the Ukraine war caused Russia to cut off the supply of natural gas the German economy went into a recession and utility prices rose dramatically. Now Germany is building natural gas stations to receive gas from the USA. They are starting up their coal plants and wind mills are being dismantled to make way for new coal mine expansions. They have plans to restart 7 nuclear plants. The same thing is happening in the USA. 65 nuclear power plants were built before 1977 and only one since then. The green movement wants to shut them down along with the remaining 217 coal fired plants. Do the people who want to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar understand the problems associated with mining, processing and disposing of the materials needed for green energy.