Will Oremus is obsessed with Fox News
Gee, any 8th AF bombadier or navigator would certainly agree.
And here in Michigan all those solar panels would be covered with snow right now.......
It won’t work in America because we have a bunch of corrupt politicians who give money to political contributors to start bogus solar companies and push out the market from doing it itself.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/26/us-climate-germany-solar-idUSBRE84P0FI20120526
...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.
Utilities and consumer groups have complained the FIT for solar power adds about 2 cents per kilowatt/hour on top of electricity prices in Germany that are already among the highest in the world with consumers paying about 23 cents per kw/h.
German consumers pay about 4 billion euros ($5 billion) per year on top of their electricity bills for solar power, according to a 2012 report by the Environment Ministry.
Critics also complain growing levels of solar power make the national grid less stable due to fluctuations in output...
Will Oremus is obsessed with Fox News
Typical ad hominem attack that passes for commentary these days.
Ignore the train wreck that is solar energy with government collusion, and go with: Ha, ha, Fox News is stupid!
The reason it works in Germany is because they pay triple the rate per kilowatt hour than we do in the US.
Here in Maryland, we pay around 9 cents cents per kWh.
Will Oremus - must have gotten an email from crazy David Brock at George Soros funded Mrdia Matters since he sent them out to all the left wing media about this.
"But I incorrectly stated that the chief difference between the U.S. and Germany’s success with solar installations had to do with climate differences on a "Fox and Friends" appearance on Feb. 7. In fact, the difference come down more to subsidies and political priorities and has nothing to with sunshine."
"The fact that the solar industry is so heavily supported by government funds does not doom the solar industry. In fact, this type of seed money is very commonplace everywhere -- from Silicon Valley to the energy sector. In fact, according to Greentech Media, every energy source in the last 400 years of U.S. history has been subsidized."
Shibani Joshi joined FOX Business Network (FBN) in September 2007 as a reporter. Joshi brings experience in investment banking, strategy and business development, as she began her career as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley.
I spent three years in Germany, “sunny days” were rare.
Living in Cincy, I would not waste the money!!
If every network is responsible for what the “happy talk” shows say — if Katie Couric and Joy Behar are ABC and Kathie Lee and Hoda and the weatherman who pooped his pants are NBC — a lot of stones are going to be thrown.
I heard that Germany is cutting way back on solar energy
projects.
Spiegel reported that the global warming theory has lots of errors.
It was posted here on FR
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2981463/posts
I don't even have to look (and give 'em a hit), it's a misquote, edited quote, or a wisecrack in jest.
The fact is, major reliance on solar cannot be achieved in the US, yet.
Yeah the southwest area really doesn’t get a lot of sun down there. I guess all the old folks that move there do so for the dry heat.
FNC is as bad as the rest of them.
Joshi has no credentials in energy.
Her schooling is in finance.
“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….