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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Interview with solar champion Hermann Scheer	David Roberts	29 May 2008	Gristmill
NewScientist has a great interview with German Social Democrat MP Hermann Scheer, who chairs the World Council for Renewable Energy and has done as much as anyone alive to spread the word on solar power. Unfortunately, it's behind a subscription wall, so you can't read it. But have no fear! I'll post a big chunk of it below the fold: What did you do about it? Ten years ago, I called for a programme to install solar panels on 100,000 roofs in Germany, so that ...
Topics: energy, Germany, interview, legislation, politics, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Taking Germany 100 percent renewable German scientists develop Combined Power Plant	David Roberts	08 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Via the The Sietch blog, some very, very cool stuff out of the University of Kassel in Germany -- the Combined Power Plant: The secure and constant provision of power anywhere and at anytime by renewable energies is now made possible thanks to the Combined Power Plant. The Combined Power Plant links and controls 36 wind, solar, biomass and hydropower installations spread throughout Germany. It is just as reliable and powerful as a conventional large-scale power ...
Topics: energy, Germany, renewable energy (all these topics)

Get in the van It's not whether we can beat climate change with today's tools, but whether we can get moving	David Roberts	17 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Tyler Hamilton ran across some elaborate, multibillion-dollar plans for a carbon capture and sequestration network in Canada, geared around enhanced oil recovery. Naturally it was asking the government (read: Canadian taxpayers) to assume the bulk of the risk. Naturally it won't be done for well over a decade. Then he ran across something else: Then I read about a new law passed in Germany that, among other things, will require all new homes built in the country to ...
Topics: Germany, renewable energy, energy, climate (all these topics)

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