Gravitation water vortex power plants seem to be more flexible and have less environmental impact than traditional hydro power.
Though the tech still seems to be in its early stages.

German
adjective
relating to Germany, its language, or its people

It might surprise you but the Branch of the Catholic Church in Germany is German.

His gov has continued the energy transition

By cutting subsidies for renewables, burdening home PV with increased costs, killing the law to phase out gas heating, lobbying to push back car emission standards?

Blackouts are a thing.

Don’t most stores have electronic tills now?
Unless they have backup power they won’t be able to sell anything during a blackout.

The only mainstreem media left is NBC and ABC

I don’t think US media are the primary focus of this article by politico.eu, talking about European politics “from Reform UK and France’s National Rally to Brothers of Italy and Alternative for Germany”.

That said, yes it’s quite ironic that this is published by politico when their owner Axel Springer SE is one of the main culprits.

Chancellor Merz told public TV Phoenix last weekend that he would propose a candidate in September.

Ok, bets are open which lobby this candidate will represent.

shred them to fibers for insulation (which is recycling, not destruction).

The regulation seems quite vague at this point but the argument that shredding jeans is not destroying them does not seem very convincing to me, even if the material is then recycled.

I guess we’ll have to wait for the definition of more specific rules to see what destruction is permissible.