Comments by "Frank TheTank" (@frankthetank5708) on "The Four Reasons That Made Germany a Great European Power" video.

@hieubuiminh4739 Nuclear energy doesn't work with smart grid solutions necessary for the massive expansion of renewable energy. It's not possible to shut them down, when there's sunshine or more wind. The second problem are the high costs for infrastructure. There's still not one nuclear reactor around worldwide, which isn't additionally paid with taxpayers money.
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@stormtrooper8420 It depends on what is needed in an economy. In the 1960s most immigrants have come from Türkiye, many from Kurdish areas, people without even the skill of writing. You may have heard of Biontech, the company who has sold the vaccine for COVID-19 to Pfizer. The scientist who developed the process is a child of these people, educated in Germany in the 1960/70s and a German citizen, of course. Germany has needed that people in that time to work in the steel industry mostly. If you do look back into the 19th century, many people have come to the Ruhr area from Poland, with a similar background to work in the coal industry. They've been integrated into society the same way. It was different in the 17th century, when over a million people have come from France, highly educated protestants. They've been the main reason for the rise of Prussia probably. Today Germany will need people again. But it won't be uneducated people. More people, who can care for the elderly. People who can work in construction with highly mechanized machines and engineers who help to rebuild the infrastructure for renewable energy sources. In addition the army needs to be rebuild, peace times are over for now. New times, new challenges.
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@stormtrooper8420 The differences is, that Germany has accepted lots of unskilled workers and has educated them and their children.
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@stormtrooper8420 Gernany has become powerful because of education. And a society, which dislikes confrontation. An inheritance of the 30 years war. This has led somewhat to nazism, too. But this mistake won't be repeated. History won't be forgotten again.
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@stormtrooper8420 Perhaps you should watch the video again, to see the difference. All people have been educated.
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@jantschierschky3461 Yes, it is relatively cheap after the infrastructure costs are paid. But you see, there's still not one nuclear reactor worldwide around, which isn't financed with public funding. If you do have to pay interest or return on investment there's zero commercial value. If a reactor is already there it doesn't make much sense to shut it down, before major investment in reconstruction is necessary. Or there are external problems. For example in Germany windparks in the North Sea are still off the grid, because the danger of additional produced electricity for the grid as long as the last (!) reactor is still working. But this has more to do with lack of investment in the grid, in fact.
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