Green energy stories from Germany
by Diet Simon Monday May 21, 2007 at 08:21 AM

If you’re interested in clean energies, let me point you to a clutch of stories just put out by Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcaster.

• Troubled by falling prices for their products, farmers in southern Germany have switched to producing environmentally friendly power.

• Germans will have to dig deeper into their pockets to enjoy their beloved beer in the next few months as barley is increasingly displaced in the country's fields by heavily subsidized crops used for biofuels.

• Germany accounts for 55 percent of global solar electricity production and is the world's market leader. One of the main benefactors of the solar boom is eastern Germany, which has long been under an economic shadow.

• Scientists in Potsdam have embarked on a unique European project to store greenhouse gases under the ground. It is the latest effort in combating climate change, but critics question the project's aims.

Go to http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2513845,00.html?maca=en-bulletin-433-html

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