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Sunshine in Germany

Posted on May 21, 2008

I'm still catching up on the news, after a long weekend in a remote location. Among the articles I missed was one in Friday's New York Times on Germany's subsidies for solar power. Although the country's system of feed-in tariffs and the rapid growth in solar power to which they have contributed are the envy of renewable energy advocates around the world, some German legislators have concluded that the structure is too expensive for the small amount of clean electricity it generates: 0.6% of a mix still dominated by coal. If you dissect the arguments and view the environmental elements ratio...

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