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Every thirty minutes enough sunlight hits the Earth to power every house, every business, every car, every train. In fact, a solar home, with 100 panels, can generate four times more energy than it uses. This energy can be captured and used with thermal solar panels, PV panels, windmills and waterwheels. Solar panels built by Bell Labs in the 1950’s, for satellites, are still sitting in space museums, generating energy at 80% of their original capacity. How long will solar panels last? No one knows. Until Chernobyl, the story of society using this incredible potential supply of energy was frustratingly slow implementation. The reason is simple: no one had devised a policy that required utilities to pay solar farmers or solar home owner a fair price for the surplus energy they were generating. Hermann Scheer & 5 friends created this policy for Germany. It caught the imagination of the anti-nuke movement, the union movement, the women’s groups and the members of Parliament, all of whom wanted a way to shut down all nukes. They built just 1,000 solar homes with 100 solar panels. Each home owner made so much money, at $0.99 kwh for selling solar onto their local grid, that the Parliament realized this was the wave of the future. They built another 400,000 solar homes. This created thousands of jobs for young people. This became of of the most important real estate investing tools ever invented by humans. This triggered the birth of the new Solar Energy Revolution, the 3rd Industrial revolution, and assured most Germany people they indeed could shut down all their nukes by 2022. That is amazing. This new industrial revolution was created by a small group of economists in Germany: Hermann Scheer, Hans Joseph Fell, Diane Moss, David Wortmann and several other people. That was so inspiring to millions of people around the world, that it propelled Japan’s Parliament to pass an identical solar payment policy that pays solar home owners $0.53 kwh, after Fukushima. Let us hope California will not have to witness an atomic melt down at Diablo Canyon, before they will wake up and require their utilities to pay solar home owner $0.99 kwh for selling surplus solar onto their local grid. Yes, part of the original issue was a kilowatt of energy cost $60. in 1970. But that was actually commensurate with the cost of oil, when you look at the cost of oil wars, WW II, Libya 2008, & every war since, was mainly a war for oil, pollution and health care costs from pollution. Today it cost about $0.99 kwh for solar, wind, coal, oil, nukes and gas, when you count all the extraneous costs like atomic accidents, imperialist wars by Big Oil, to take over nations like Sudan, Vietnam, etc. That is why it is only fair that we pay solar home owners $0.99 kwh for generating solar and selling it onto our local grids. Building of solar powered home is climbing rapidly around the world, except in the US, where the corporation are working feverishly to trick people from building solar homes with 100 panels. Big Oil does not want competition. Each oil corporation has come up with a new green wrinkle to trick people into helping keep Big Energy in control of energy policy. There are over a dozen green tricks being pushed by Big Oil, like Cap & Trade, Community Choice Energy, “Free roof top solar” installation companies, lobbying groups like CCL that beg Congress to help Big Oil take over solar energy production, Stanford Professor Mark Z. Jacobson, who has a “Solution” where Big Oil builds giant solar & wind farms in rural areas and then sells the energy to homeowners, where corporations end up controlling not only the panels on your roof, your money, but even your roof. Nothing is left to the homeowners. Nothing but to pay higher and higher energy costs to Big Energy. The Nepal earthquake struck as I was writing this. Most of the country was left without electricity for lights, cell phones or cooking for a month, as a driving rain storm hit. This is a perfect example of how modern industrial solar societies, like Germany, Japan, China and the US could leap frog Nepal into the 21th century, just by offering to build, even one solar powered 4-plex home, in each village, to show how easy it would be to replace all the ancient brick homes, lost in each village, with a modern, flexible material, earthquake resistant solar home with 100 panels. Nepal could be 100% solar powered by 2025, if modern nations would help build solar homes.