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Oh, yeah, the panels are easy to build. It's sneaking an extension cord over to an outlet on the neighbor's house that's tricky. You have to know a little bit about wiring too to feed the juice back to the utility company.

It's a field that's ripe for ontapanoors. ;^)

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cold air

11:27 PM on January 26, 2011

Breaking news from http://www.germanenergyblog.de/?p=5136

"The Advisory Committee on Environmental Issues to the German Parliament (Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen – SRU) today submitted its special report on ways to achieve a 100% renewable electricity supply to Federal Environment Minister Röttgen. 100% renewable electricity generation is possible by 2050. Subsidies for new PV systems should be capped..."
... and later:

"SRU member Prof. Olav Hohmeyer spoke out in favour of a 1,000 MWp cap in an article to be published by the newspaper Die Zeit on Thursday. The economist, who lectures at the university of Flensburg, said he believed that PV would only play a “miniscule role” in the renewable energy supply of the future..."

Hmmm - so where do you get these reliable renewables:
"...the great storage potential that exists in Norway with its hydro power plants, should be made accessible"