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Nuclear power is reliable with low carbon emissions Germany’s decision to shut down all its nuclear power plants was a “huge mistake” and has come at a high cost to the economy, said the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. “It was a serious strategic mistake to phase out nuclear energy,” Merz added, “We simply don’t have enough energy generation capacity.” How did Germany get here? To understand why the Chancellor is calling this a strategic error, we have to rewind to the early 2000s, when the German government had planned to exit nuclear power. But then the Fukushima disaster happened in Japan in March 2011 and made waves around the world, which reached Germany. After the then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, the government moved quickly to speed up the exit plan. The goal was the Energiewende (energy turnaround)—a massive shift designed to reduce nuclear risks and transition the entire country to renewables. Throughout the 2010s, Germany’s nuclear fleet was shut down piece by piece. And the ...

Larry Page and Sergey Brin created one of the most influential companies of all time 27 years ago in a garage in California. For nearly three decades, Larry Page and Sergey Brin embodied the California dream. They arrived as graduate students at Stanford in 1995, founded Google in a Menlo Park garage in 1998, and built one of the most valuable companies on earth. Now, in a move that signals a dramatic shift in the relationship between California and its wealthiest residents, both founders are quietly packing up -- without any farewell speech. The Great Migration In late 2025, something unusual started happening in California's business registries. Sergey Brin terminated or relocated approximately 15 California limited liability companies, converting seven of them to Nevada entities. These weren't just random business vehicles—they included the companies managing his superyacht and his private terminal at San Jose International Airport. Larry Page went even further, inactivating...