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Originally Posted by Dan D
is the motto of the 2nd German Conference on Climate Change which will be held on October 23, sponsored by the EnBW AG, the "Power Pioneers".
Al Gore will be there, too.
Germany sells the most climate friendly technolgy worldwide. The renewable energy industry is proposed to overtake ze beloved automobile industry in Germany by the next decade.
The USA is already a strong competitor on second place.
As for transcontinental investments, the German energy giant E.ON is investing EUR 3.5 billion into US wind energy in New York and Texas after snatching Airtricity`’s North American assets. "This takeover marks the first time E.ON has attained a strong renewables market position with considerable growth potential outside of Europe"
http://www.energycurrent.com/index.p...4&storyid=5766
Now that Al Gore has brought the climate change to the attention of more Americans, the rate of growth of investments into green technology will rise due to a new customer awareness.
“The U.S. wind energy market is one of the most attractive worldwide. According to Ernst & Young's "Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices", it scores 72, which is the highest score, followed by India, Spain and the UK, which score 64 each. Given the extension of government funding and the introduction of renewables guidelines at state level, the U.S. wind energy market is going to be generating growth rates in excess of 10 percent annually expected over the next 10 years.”
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Well, solar and wind energy certainly is one of the silver items of Germn economy, and as a matter of fact, germany has been surprised by the number of longterm jobs that have been created by the booming of solar panels and wind turbines, for both of these germany is world market leader, and sells the most modern devices currently available. Books with orders are full for the next 15 years, and still more new companies emerge. the whole story is a nice example of how economy and ecology must not necessarily exclude each other, and that ecological buisiness cannot only generate profits, but a higher demand for jobs than can be satisfied immediately.
the more other nations copy the Germans, the more difficult it will become for Germans to defend their leading market role, of course. americans are far more aware of economical problems and energy questions, than the official policies in washington may suggest, and regional and city administrations often behave far more clever than the White house, an d are ahead of it's polcies by years, and even up to a decade. It is their demand for according solutions that has pushed the US to already second place on the world market. Due to the sheer size, America probably takes over first place sooner or later - with American idiotic politics still talking ten years behind.
