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Germany spent over five hundred billion dollars trying to save the planet. That’s not a typo. Half a trillion. Imagine lighting that money on fire and calling it progress. This is the story of Germany’s green energy gamble, and why it shocked the global economy.

Picture Germany in the 2000s: factories humming, engineers confident, energy cheap and reliable. The country wasn’t just Europe’s engine, it was its blueprint. Then came a bold promise — abandon old power, embrace wind and solar, and lead the world morally and economically.

But energy isn’t poetry. It’s physics. As turbines rose, power bills rose faster. Industries stalled. Emissions barely moved. The lights stayed on, but the costs spread into every home, every job, every export.

This isn’t a story about climate denial. It’s about consequences. When ideology drives infrastructure, who pays the price? And more importantly — who learns the lesson before repeating it?

Before Germany’s energy crisis had a price tag, it had a switch. In 2011, Germany chose to turn it off. Nuclear power — the quiet backbone supplying a quarter of the nation’s electricity — was marked for extinction overnight.

The decision was called Atomausstieg, the nuclear exit. It sounded orderly. Rational. Controlled. In reality, it was a demolition. Eight reactors shut down instantly, not because they failed, but because fear traveled faster than facts.