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Kurt Beck never was the sharpest knife in the drawer.

How he made it to head honcho of Germany’s (SPD) Labour Party and to the exalted position of Premier of Rhineland-Palatinate is beyond me, but I don’t claim to be an expert in these matters.

It’s all too greasy for my liking.

But this is a classic.

Our friend Kurt got involved in the CO2 emissions discussion and it was all a little too much for him.

He said ” Nuclear power – if you look at the entire process, from ore extraction, purification, processing and power generation – generates more CO2 than burning coal”

And everyone said (or thought..) “WTF are you talking about, Kurt?”

So Klaus Kleber picked this up on the main news programme last night and demonstrated that – even if you took the ENTIRE process chain from construction to decommisioning of a nuclear power station and mining, purification, transport, operation etc – into account

Coal fired power stations generate ONE THOUSAND TIMES MORE CO2 per unit of energy than nuclear power stations do.

None of the scientists who provided the data could work out how Kurt came up with the idea.

Neither could his own party.

Neither could anyone…..