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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
migration the greenest move of them all
by martin
Tuesday May 22, 2007 at 02:32 PM
Not for one moment do I buy the notion that the Germans are going green - perhaps they have now old growth forests 22 years after I left as an environmental refugee, or converted the heavy metal contaminated 250 coal mining holes into pure water springs - go to that dreadful place and have a good look before buying into Deutsche Welle - the most sleep inducing radio/TV, I ever watched.
Germany, and perhaps most of central western Europe is so fucked, that people in the know don't want to have children in that area. They migrate. That's the most effective greening one can do as a German.
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