The law says that parties now have to field at least 40%

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Wow, that's a quota then. I wouldn't have thought they would have such laws.

Regarding baseload: the changeover to renewables with their intermittance means a change in the whole structure of electricity production, not "unreliability" as propagandised by traditional producers. The production of wind and solar can be predicted with reasonable precision for baseload scheduling on a 24-hour scale. In fact, one of the two Danish network owners (not Green utopists in any way) prepared a study that showed that wind can supply 50% of all electricity. It's currently at around 20% there; it is higher in certain regions, for example 30% in a Northern German state - so it's not like a high percentage of renewables is untested in practice. (It's not in France.)

Regarding radical overhaul, I am thinking of decades too (two decades, at most). However, what you fail to consider is that moving from coal/gas to nuclear would be such a radical overhaul (except in France) too, and it woud take longer than say to wind - building a nuclear plant usually takes 5-10 years and incredible sums of money, while the aim is for an at least 30-year period for paying that back (for wind that is usually put at 20 years).

Change to nuclear won't influence oil use. Change from coal to nuclear would be very little in France, but much bigger elsewhere - not moderate. In fact, if that happened, we would not just face Peak Oil, but Peak Uranium too. Nuclear is a dead-end in my opinion even as an energy solution, not just as an unsolved pollution problem.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

You are repeating an argument peddled by the nuclear lobby that is totally against the facts, since it is based on a blatantly out-of-context sampling of energy statistics.

In 2003 for example, imports from France totalled 20.2 TWh, that's just 3.3% of the total German production. However, according to VDEW, most of that transited Germany to third countries (the Netherlands and Italy), and wasn't destined for German consumers.

Furthermore, even that part which went for Germany means little of Germany's total export/import balance isn't considered. That balance is positive! In 2003, a total of 53.7 TWh was exported, and 45.7 TWh imported; in 2004, it was 51.5 TWh exports vs 44.2 Twh imports.

Finally, just as nuclear energy can be transited, so can renewable energy. Transfers between countries are one of the possible solutions to reduce the impact of wind(/sun/wave) intermittance.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}