The need for new on-shore grid construction is now a top issue in the post-nuclear-closures debate in Germany, with strange alignments. While representatives of the governing parties seem to think that Greens can be split over the issue, some Greens made the argument that what's needed for wind is not really highest-capacity high-voltage cables but more medium-capacity cables, which can be laid underground. I'm not sure that that's enough (we will need balancing on an Europe-wide scale, and high-capacity cables are more efficient), but there was Green capaigning for such grid development long before Fukushima.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}