Power generation: Coal comeback: Our author can watch from his office window how Germany is sleeping through the energy transition

It’s always been more fun to look out the window. The sky above my office window has almost always been covered by a carpet of clouds for weeks. It is omnipresent in a way that I have seldom experienced in the past 20 years. It shades our property even when the sun is shining from a bright blue sky a few hundred meters further south towards Cologne. Because the carpet is man-made.

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