Germany to Make History With Alternative Energy
Here's a "tale of two cities" - or two countries, actually. Germany and the United States. One country is preparing for a future in which their children will breathe clean air and lead the worlds economy - and the other is preparing for a future in which their children will choke on polluted air - and fall behind the rest of the world in the global economy. Can you guess which is which? Germany just announced a $260 billion investment in new energy - that's 8% of their GDP - with a goal of getting 80% of their nation's energy from wind and solar. This is the largest investment in energy that Germany has made since World War 2 - and they're even making this investment right in the middle of the financial crisis sweeping Europe - because Germany "gets it." No nation in the history of the world has ever cut its way to prosperity - just look at Greece. So Germany knows that the only way to get out of this crisis - is to GROW their way out of it - to come out in the end of it a better, stronger, and wealthier nation - through government investments in the future. Germany is going to build offshore wind farms - covering an area six-times larger than the size of New York City. They're going to put up thousands and thousands of miles in new power lines to modernize their energy grid - enough new smartgrid power lines that, if they were stretched out in a single line, would reach from London all the way to Baghdad. And, prompted by the Fukushima disaster in Japan last year - Germany is shutting down 17 nuclear reactors supplying about a fifth of all the electricity in their nation - and replacing those reactors with the wind farms and solar panels they're now building.
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Reaganomics, the beginning of the end. You are correct, just think of where we would be now if we had followed Carter's forward thinking plan! If the Koch's had put the billions they have spent on political power to protect their dirty oil, we could have renewables dominating our landscape, and they would be heroes, instead of the demons they, (and the people they control in our government), are...
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The Republican Party is the ultimate impedance to progress
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Excellent synthesis and deliberation indeed. The public opinion in the US should take a good note of what it is said here, because there's no better way to grasp a concept than when this is contrasted with its nemesis...
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Holy Shit,,,,,,Germany has some very very smart leaders....Wow....A foreward thinking leadership....UNBELIEVABLE...WELL DONE...
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In 2022 the last nuclear power plant here in Germany is going to be shut down. I will celebrate this day. Lets kill some seabirds. Just kidding. It is a combination of renewable sources, solar and wind energy that will let us get rid of the nuclear threat.
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Only solution is to cut all Coal, Natural gas and oil subsidies and tax them higher and use that tax to put towards cleaner energy.
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Germany the bird killers. Thorium Nuclear power is never ever mentioned despite the 100 year lifetime for waste compared to the 4.5 billion year lifetime of plutonium. Governments have done nothing but hurt mankind throughout history and yet mankind still votes for a party system and are faced with 4 years of policy.
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The united states isn't going to do anything. Texas, California, other states might do something. Or not. But the US will not do anything. Because it no longer exists.
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All electronics and technology goes to Poland.
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Thats Repulicans for ya...Drill Baby, Drill...Dumb Bitches
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Germany i building a lot now. Good. Free energy for all the muslims living on the doll
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How will the air in Germany get better if the whole world dosent give a shit about it and continues polluting the air of the earth?
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Why no development of Thorium-fueled nuclear power plants? Cheap, plentiful Thorium found in granite deposits all over the globe and usually on or near the surface. Once refined cannot be easily turned to use in weapons (as in A bombs). Can actually use-up all of its radioactive life - while uranium reactors commonly use-up only 10% and leave the remaining 90% as 'waste'. Thorium can be used in smaller modular reactors for use in cities while uranium ones require massive rural installations.
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T. Boone Pickens proposed a wind power plan a few years ago. What happened to it, and him?
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Denmark has built more windmills than any country but still is unable to close ONE of its Coal plants....If you want to be an industrial nation, breezes 25% of the time and sunshine when its not cloudy will not do. Perhaps Germany should review how it lives and follow its brethren in Pennsylvania US who chose to stop in the 1800s somewhere using no electricity and only horses for power They are admirable for their choices.
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Again , If the US didn't have to Be Your Protectorate, your big brother, your Army..where 50% of US budget goes to its defenses of which no enemies exist in North America ...If we could be free of defending you ..Oh how much less fossil fuel we would have to use and we could have all those light hearted social programs in the social welfare states..street cars and Nanny state things. Would you release us and YOU DEAL WITH PUTIN ..I could live with a Europe and Russia as one state under Putin. And take the UN to Europe so we can use the building in prime NYC space for the poor.
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