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½ Of Germany's Renewable Power Owned By Individual Citizens (Original Post)
Quixote1818
Nov 2012
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Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)1. Love the part where it says: House Powers Car. n/t
Neutrino_603
(33 posts)2. 20% !
20% of their electric power requirements met by photovoltaic cell. An amazing amount and very thought provoking.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)3. This is what happens when treehuggers, hippies and socialists gain too much influence
They found a party and change a whole nation over the course of 30 years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_%2790/The_Greens
bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)4. "too much" being a subjective judgement
femrap
(13,418 posts)6. When anyone
says that the Midwest doesn't have enough sun, I always show Germany as the example. Their sun-days are fairly equal to those in the Midwest.
Denmark has done quite a bit w/ solar and wind as well.
ancianita
(35,926 posts)5. Because the government has given its citizens a full-on 20% tax deduction
for any and all use of photovoltaic and other solar uses for over the last ten years. And WE sold the photovoltaic patents to them. Always trading our innovative birthright for a mess of immediate gratification. We've been letting others worldwide bear the costs of R & D. Except for food and drugs.
davidwparker
(5,397 posts)7. Love that roof. I would do that to mine if I could. n/t