German government published a cookbook to teach people how to cook without electricity.

"Kochen ohne Strom" https://www.bbk.bund.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/202...

It would have been useful to keep coal powered electric plants in use and stocked with a mountain of coal.

They will likely keep some coal plants online longer than was originally planned, so that is definitely a thing. They even restarted some plants to reduce their current dependency on Russian gas.

There have been logistics issues getting coal to the plants. It feels like energy production followed the manufacturing motto of "just in time" instead of stockpiling the input coal. This lack of resilience was unnecessary.

I am not aware cial, usually shipped in bulk and very easily stored, was ever delivered JIT. But whatever, JIT was already the reason why the chip supply from Asia to overseas car factories was disrupted, at least according to certain people without the slightest clue of how JIT works. Or supply chains in general...

not sure exactly what disruptions they did on the storage area, but this happened recently: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-arrests-as-climate-protests-di...

It is an ad hoc solution to the current situation so I'm not surprised it's not exactly smooth sailing. It doesn't help that they recently shut down some of their reactors, they could have at least kept them open until the situation stabilized.

I don't think this part of living in the future was predicted on The Jetsons

Oh my, I didn't realize The Jetsons aired in 1962: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jetsons

Thats 60 years ago. Wow.

George Jetson's birthdate is arguably this year.