See what the Germans are doing with clean renewable solar power
greenenergy336·Uploaded on Mar 12, 2010
Germany is serious about clean renewable energy(solar power) in private homes as well as in industries. Shouldn't we be doing more? http://tinyurl.com/greendiyenergy101
- This video was posted four years ago. Now Germany has so much surplus power (they quadrupled it) they have to sell it to neighboring countries in order to keep the fossil and nuke electricity producers from losing their entire financial base.
Isn't evolving exciting?
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by Morgana Matus, 04/09/13
For a country phasing out its nuclear plants, you might expect a downturn in energy production. But Germany has actually seen its power output quadruple between 2011 and 2012. Europe’s leading economy has been pushing for a green revolution, becoming one of the largest markets for solar voltaics and where support for renewables is subsidized by taxpayers.
The country’s Federal Statistics Office reported a surplus of 22.8 billion kilowatt hours over the last two years. The government has set a goal to source 80 percent of its electricity from green technology by 2050, leaving the old fossil fuel-based utilities behind. Holland, Austria and Switzerland were the country’s main customers for the extra energy.
Read more: Germany Quadruples Energy Surplus Over the Last Two Years
Germany is not, if one looks at a map of solar irradiation, the most ideal place for this. While the U.S. lies further south and SHOULD BE on the forefront of this. Shows what national will (which the Germans have a history of ) and a concerted effort can achieve. Fossil fuels - to stretch a metaphor - will be gasping to survive in the decades to come.
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Sorry for the minuscule map, basically shows the most ideal places for solar energy placement. Australia has a whole continent to work with and when the oil runs out of the Middle East, they can go to exporting solar to the world .
http://www.globalskm.com/Insights/Achieve-Articles/Items/2010/The-outlook-for-solar-energy-technologies.aspx
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....is the perfect metaphor!
- With smaller chips sets and modularization, we could have done this years ago.
But of course if we go in this directions, we'll have to leave some things behind.....
