Germany to Make History With Alternative Energy

Here's a "tale of two cities" - or two countries, actually. Germany and the United States. One country is preparing for a future in which their children will breathe clean air and lead the worlds economy - and the other is preparing for a future in which their children will choke on polluted air - and fall behind the rest of the world in the global economy. Can you guess which is which? Germany just announced a $260 billion investment in new energy - that's 8% of their GDP - with a goal of getting 80% of their nation's energy from wind and solar. This is the largest investment in energy that Germany has made since World War 2 - and they're even making this investment right in the middle of the financial crisis sweeping Europe - because Germany "gets it."

No nation in the history of the world has ever cut its way to prosperity - just look at Greece. So Germany knows that the only way to get out of this crisis - is to GROW their way out of it - to come out in the end of it a better, stronger, and wealthier nation - through government investments in the future. Germany is going to build offshore wind farms - covering an area six-times larger than the size of New York City. They're going to put up thousands and thousands of miles in new power lines to modernize their energy grid - enough new smartgrid power lines that, if they were stretched out in a single line, would reach from London all the way to Baghdad. And, prompted by the Fukushima disaster in Japan last year - Germany is shutting down 17 nuclear reactors supplying about a fifth of all the electricity in their nation - and replacing those reactors with the wind farms and solar panels they're now building.

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[log140]

Renewable Energy is the future!! best investment you can do for future generations!!

[log140]

price and money does not allways equal health or happyness!! and what is cheap today does not have to be the cheapest forever..

we spend more money on beer on average than on electrical energy.. the baillouts costed more than 300 billions and Afghanistan 1,5 Trillions.. compared to that 260 Billion on RE is best investment ever!

the sun sends us 9000 times the energy we use on this planet... one day we will be able to find an effective way to use it and nothing will compete with that...

[sams spade]

I gotta agree with you there. I hope that the patterns of Republican being defeated will continue. There are so many loony tunes fanatics in this country, brain-washed sheep!

[Lonnie Clemens]

Baghadan Leris is right.

[Lonnie Clemens]

We can learn from the Germans on how to save money.

[baghadan leris]

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[omar hajaj]

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[omar hajaj]

screw the reat, Germany is the best!