<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Germany says auf Wiedersehen to nuclear power, guten Tag to renewables]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by katesisco http://www.grist.org/article/levitin-germany/ Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:07:47 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/levitin-germany/1 solar power for the world from Germany?

Now that the World Bank and the US have signed off on abating African debt, not all but significant most, the dark continent will be able to go bright with solar power.  There is not the power infrastructure, not the roads or railroads, to allow electric lines even if that was the choice, which it isn't.  Currently, telephone service is through cellular; next will be solar electricity.  Africa will leapfrog through the messy and tacky environmental poles and wires, right into the cheapest and safest technology.  And Germany has positioned itself to be the world's supplier and leader:  Do not as i say, but as I do.

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Now that the World Bank and the US have signed off on abating African debt, not all but significant most, the dark continent will be able to go bright with solar power.  There is not the power infrastructure, not the roads or railroads, to allow electric lines even if that was the choice, which it isn't.  Currently, telephone service is through cellular; next will be solar electricity.  Africa will leapfrog through the messy and tacky environmental poles and wires, right into the cheapest and safest technology.  And Germany has positioned itself to be the world's supplier and leader:  Do not as i say, but as I do.

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