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Fox News Claims Solar Won't Work in America Because It's Not Sunny Like Germany
Slate ^ | 2/8/13 | Will Ooremus

Posted on 02/10/2013 10:29:22 AM PST by OKRA2012

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To: OKRA2012

“...to claim that Germany has a great deal more sun than the US is asinine.”

99+% of Germany is farther north than the Continental US, farther north than our northern border with Canada. In terms of sun benefit it is on a par with Alaska, and maybe a little worse off. See the photovoltaic visual in the full article.


41 posted on 02/10/2013 1:00:02 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)
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To: jjotto
...The incentives through the state-mandated “feed-in-tariff” (FIT) are not without controversy, however. The FIT is the lifeblood for the industry until photovoltaic prices fall further to levels similar for conventional power production.

Germany just ended the FIT for projects larger than 10MW. Projects larger than that must find a buyer for their energy before they build and they must freely negotiate the price of that energy with the buyer.

These solar plants in Germany must produce next to nothing in the winter time. It is pretty overcast much of the time.

42 posted on 02/10/2013 1:01:59 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Obama's vision - No Job is a Good Job)
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To: OKRA2012
Tell that to the inhabitants of Death Valley.
43 posted on 02/10/2013 1:12:56 PM PST by Conservative4Ever (I'm going Galt)
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To: OKRA2012

“Fox News Claims Solar Won’t Work in America Because It’s Not Sunny Like Germany”

I was stationed in Bamberg Germany from January 1971 to January 1972.

I don’t recall seeing much sun there at all, in the months of November into March….


44 posted on 02/10/2013 1:15:49 PM PST by Road Glide
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To: VeniVidiVici

http://www.germanenergyblog.de/?p=10548

October 15, 2012

Today the four German transmission system operators (TSOs) officially announced the surcharge for renewable energy pursuant to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) for 2013, the so-called EEG surcharge (EEG Umlage).

As widely expected it will rise from 3.592 ct/kWh in 2012 to 5.277 ct/kWh in 2013, constituting an increase of 46.9%. Consumers that cannot reclaim the (additional) 19% VAT will pay 6.28 ct/kWh in total...


45 posted on 02/10/2013 1:16:39 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Road Glide

It’s Always Sunny in Bamberg.


46 posted on 02/10/2013 1:29:46 PM PST by OKRA2012
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To: mc5cents
Say what? 400 years of U.S. history. Lets see, 1789 to 2013 is what, 223 years. Where did the other 177 years come from??

Columbus, Ohio...

47 posted on 02/10/2013 1:31:34 PM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: Beagle8U
Even today, many people heat with wood. Just how exactly has the Federal government ever subsidized that?

I can't speak for the Feds, but here they do it by making wood burning illegal...

48 posted on 02/10/2013 1:34:25 PM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: OKRA2012

One unknown FOX reporter makes a stupid statement and the FOX-bashers fly out of their caves like bats at sundown. You have more trust in Media Matters?


49 posted on 02/10/2013 1:35:22 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: dfwgator
"Faux News is a joke"

I always want to spell it, "Fok-Snooze."

50 posted on 02/10/2013 1:50:40 PM PST by redhead (PRAY DAILY for a Restoration of the Righteous Intent of America)
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To: Beagle8U
Even today, many people heat with wood. Just how exactly has the Federal government ever subsidized that?

By not charging me a Cord Wood Tax or a Chimney Emissions Fee?

I base calling that a subsidy on the same governmental logic as requiring tax cuts to be "paid for".

51 posted on 02/10/2013 1:59:58 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: null and void

So Columbus discovered the United States of America? I thought he discovered Nassau, or was it the Virgin Islands?


52 posted on 02/10/2013 2:04:34 PM PST by mc5cents
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To: redhead

It has been unwatchable for years.


53 posted on 02/10/2013 2:50:49 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ozzymandus

It was a dumb statement made by a person purported to be an expert on a certain topic.


54 posted on 02/10/2013 2:54:42 PM PST by OKRA2012
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To: mylife
FNC is as bad as the rest of them. Joshi has no credentials in energy. Her schooling is in finance.

Topics are chosen by the show producers, not the host...and most conversations are scripted via a background teleprompter.

55 posted on 02/10/2013 3:02:40 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
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To: OKRA2012

My German relatives would beg to differ on Germany being more troubling “sunny”. I am sure the German Air Force will now close their Base in New Mexico since Germany is more sunny

Fox is just as stupid as the other Liberal MSM.....and sensible Americans fighting the Global Warming Hoax nonsense do not need Fox to be stupid


56 posted on 02/10/2013 3:51:54 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (GOP = Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: mylife
"It has been unwatchable for years."

Exactly. I stopped watching it years ago. When Bill O'Reilly came in, I went out. Never got interested again, except when Sarah Palin or Michelle Malkin was on.

57 posted on 02/10/2013 4:06:19 PM PST by redhead (PRAY DAILY for a Restoration of the Righteous Intent of America)
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To: OKRA2012

Does Solar actually “work” in Germany? Not “does it generate electricity” — you can do that with solar just about anywhere. But is it cost-effective in Germany? My guess is no.

Solar works just fine in America, it’s just that we aren’t yet quite stupid enough to waste money on something that cost twice as much as using abundant resources like coal and natural gas. But we are getting there.


58 posted on 02/10/2013 9:33:15 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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