Triple pane and atomic power

7:00
Another cool morning. 20 degrees Celsius. Cloudy.
Traffic noise is coming in through open windows. In hot days, I remember, they were closed and it was very quiet in the house.

Every window in our house has triple panes.

I chose "triple" together with a wooden frame to keep heat away in summer as well as outdoor noise. It was a right decision. We are fine with very little energy for heating and cooling, as if we had foreseen this energy crisis.
I really wanted this country to be the first to declare the denuclearization of our energy, despite possible short-term electricity shortage. As is demonstrated in the recent energy-saving movement, we can get by with unexpectedly little energy. While we bide our time, we are highly likely to come up with new ideas about alternative technology for energy generation and saving.
Soft landing is not always good, for it often dampens the motivation for innovation. What we need is a shock. And yes we had the shock. This might have been a God-given opportunity to make a dramatic change. But our decision making was very slow, partly due to the lack of leadership and rather ad hoc and whimsical measures of the current cabinet, partly because of the oppose-all attitude of the Liberal Democratic Party and mostly because we ourselves did not ponder the problem enough. In the meantime, we are well behind Germany and Switzerland, which are not even a country of earthquake and have never caused nuclear accidents.
First or second, even if it's somewhat too late, we have to get rid of the nuclear power reactors at any rate. First of all we have to draw a roadmap to stopping nuclear power while anti-nuclear sentiment in the Japanese is lingering still.