One of the legacies of the Merkel era is the admission of a rarely dramatic misjudgment.

According to the grand coalition's farewell gift to the Germans, power consumption in Germany will increase sharply in a few years.

Just ten years earlier, all parties, led by the Greens, had expected that it would be easy to save on electricity production from nuclear power plants, which were soon to be shut down.

Germany should save so much electricity that one day it would be largely covered by wind and sun.

That was a long way to lie in your pocket.

It is true that the productivity of electricity generation and the efficiency of consumption have increased.

However, the effects are eaten up by the fact that an exit from three energy sources - nuclear, oil and coal - is accompanied by a sharp increase in demand that he himself created.

The result is a miscalculation that was so great that one does not wish to repeat it.

But that is not excluded.

After all, the error was not based on mathematics, physics or economics, but on a policy that wants to produce energy primarily from a moral point of view.

That has not changed to this day.

Putin's commodity mafia is exploiting the weakness

The war against Ukraine would be a good opportunity to become aware of the viability, or rather: of the abysses of German energy morality.

Abandoning first nuclear and then coal meant that the only solution left was natural gas, because no matter how rapid the expansion of wind and solar power, the gap cannot be closed.

You can now see how big the gap is.

All of Germany is hanging on to it, a weakness that has been mercilessly exploited by Putin's raw material mafia.

The result is a national tragedy that hints at what would happen if Germany wanted to be carbon neutral immediately, i.e. gave up gas as well.

It would be a disaster.

In any case, it has become very quiet around a gas embargo, which even a former Federal Environment Minister of the CDU was enthusiastic about in the spring.

But the result is not a pause, but all the more powerful oaths are made about the German revolution, which is sold as industrial.

The "steam engines of the 21st century", wind, sun and "green" hydrogen, according to the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the climate conference in Bonn, should finally replace the "looms" of the 20th century, coal, oil and gas.

There it is again: the beautiful image for a beautiful goal in a beautiful future.

But is it realistic?

Or is it based on the next dramatic miscalculation?

The ever bolder traffic light predictions

The mere fact that the old dream of happiness now has to be kept alive with "green" hydrogen makes one skeptical.

The gas should make green electricity storable and bridge dark doldrums - the big blind spot in every Lieschen-Trittin calculation, wind and sun could one day cover one hundred percent of Germany's electricity requirements.

However, Germany will hardly be able to produce enough hydrogen (by the way: a very inefficient way of using electricity) to be able to do without the “looms”.

The question is whether the world will ever succeed.

In order to be able to believe in it, the traffic light coalition starts up its political heat pump.

She sucks the certainty she needs from uncertain predictions to be able to make increasingly bold predictions.

As beautiful as the picture of Baerbock is, it is not without blemishes.

It doesn't even count nuclear power, although Germany is carrying out the second "stress test" in a short time to find out whether it really belongs to the steam engines.

The vehemence with which Germany, on the other hand, polemicizes that nuclear power plants are climate-friendly shows how big a sacred cow can be in the land of morality.

A reversal would be a revolution within the revolution, which has far more to do with pure ideology and far less with “purely factual” foresight than Economics Minister Robert Habeck would have us believe.

The stress test is primarily a stress test for yourself.

This does not make Germany a role model.

No country wants to afford the costs, prices, risks and detours that a "German" policy entails.

Not only, but above all for Germany, the consequences of the war against Ukraine are therefore casting a shadow over climate policy.

For most other countries that matter, whether or not it may be suicidal in the face of climate change, the energy policy agenda has not changed significantly.

Germany keeps making it difficult for itself to change anything.