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Originally Posted by Dan D
Interesting movie (in English) about a research by the University of Kassel/Germany:
"Is it possible to supply Germany around-the-clock with 100% power from renewable energies?"
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Technologically and by market shares, Germay is world leader in solar tech. But we have seriously flawed this field of economy by boosting it by ruinous subsidies. These (if you only calculate it to the end) cause tax-payed investements and running costs that in the form of effective profits being payed to investors and turn them into a ruinous, unbelievably expensive lose-lose situation in Germany. The cost for 1 KWh produced by "Photovoltaik", as it is called over here, is absolutely beyond any competitiveness, and will remain to be that. That is the only reason why foreigners invest in solar-produced power made in Germany: it means that plenty of German taxes get shifted from the state into private investor's pockets. That would be excusable if it is not beyond a reasonable scale, regarding the benefit of boosting a clean energy source. But the costs surpass the gains by a 3-digit factor. If half the German power needs would be proeduced by solar tech, it would consume more than half the national GNP - most of it would be subsidies that in the end ends in the pokcets of oversea investors.
The technology is superior, yes. But the economical structures formed around it are a total catastrophe. Give something of benefit into the hands of politicians that do not think beyond the next election, and you can be sure that the will mess up everything in it that could be messed up - in this case for nothing else that narcissistic ideological reasons.
Verdammte Trottel.