
Chapter 12
My Solar Age Started with Tchernobyl
Franz Alt
TV Journalist and Publisher, Baden-Baden, Germany
Until the great accident of Tchernobyl, I was a supporter of the
atomic energy. I trusted those experts that had told us their ideology
of a “safe nuclear energy”. As a TV journalist and member of a
conservative Party, the CDU in Germany, I was blindly believing the
energy experts. But the disaster of Tchernobyl was a wake up call
and eventually I started to make up my mind seriously. Tchernobyl
was my “Damascus event”.
In the meantime I did learn a few things:
• The Sun sends us, every second, 10,000 to 15,000 more
energy than man on Earth is currentl ...