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Everything costs money to make and install. Really not sure what your point is.

Yes, everything, including the renewable generation equipment. If you remove the feed-in tariffs for renewables and tell them to operate at the real market price, they'll hate it. If you remember, there's this thing called LCOE which dictates the minimum electricity price at which your plant will be profitable over its planned life time. Having the cost of electricity go down is not good for high-LCOE sources like wind & solar, it's terrible, because it pushes them into insolvency. Their initial ROI plans estimated for the cost of power to go up as fossil fuels get depleted, which would make them profitable, not for it to go down. You'll see this effect strengthen over the years as subsidies go down and the number of times of overproduction (and thus excessively low prices) goes up. Here's just a few to give you a taste:
Prokon insolvency is part of a crisis of the Wind energy industry
After Prokon: Windwärts announces insolvency
Indebted windpark developer: Windreich announces insolvency

You'd be crazy not to install solar if your roof is pointing the right direction in the UK.

Sure, and you know why? Read further down on that website:

How do I make money with solar panels?
Solar panels allow you to earn money in the following three ways:
Feed-in tariff rate – 14.38p/kWh: Firstly, the government pays you for the electricity you generate and use, this typically add ups to about £400 per year for an average 3kW panel. The Feed-in tariff is tax-free, index-linked and lasts 20 years.
National Grid sell back rate – 4.77p/kWh: The government also pays you for the electricity you produce but don’t use. This gets sold back to the grid and will earn you about £60 per annum.

My EDF bill listed as 12p/kWh that I paid to the generator to supply me: me -> 12p/kWh -> generator.
This website suggests that with solar the government pays me to use electricity? government -> 14.38p/kWh -> me? For my electrical consumption? WTF? This is a completely messed up system that is ass-backwards. Imagine if everybody were doing this. A quick back of the envelope calculation comes to about 8 billion GBP. And that doesn't mean the UK wouldn't need a grid - these systems are still grid connected. At best it would take a bit off the demand (since residential use is only a small portion of electrical consumption).

These power grid guys have worked out how to deal with the fluctuations:

Honestly, your argument is a promotional fluff piece for a battery storage supplier about a pilot project at 6 small sites? Wonderful talk about how they love the community, hug trees and save the environment? The question isn't whether it can be done - of course batteries can store energy, that's not at dispute here. The question is: is it economical? Small pilot projects mean nothing. You can spend a whole lifetime coming up with brilliant solutions to the wrong problems. Do the quantitative analysis, only then can you begin to grasp the scale of the problem.

That's like saying you can't find any evidence that police hand out parking tickets in Boston. It's such a common occurrence that it doesn't require more sourcing or evidence on a German site.

http://web.de/magazine/auto/verkehr-service/8888722-kostet-stinkefinger.html

Far more worrisome is that politicians, clergy, churches, and their critics threaten each other based on these kinds of laws. This is also a regular occurrence, sometimes even resulting in prison sentences or book banning. Churches and right wing politicians are particularly fond of shielding themselves from criticism that way:

http://winfuture.de/news,66580.html

http://www.rp-online.de/politik/deutschland/bundespraesident/wulff-klagt-wegen-beleidigung-bei-facebook-1.2655558

http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/ein-mann-druckte-koranverse-auf-toilettenpapier-und-schickte-die-blaetter-an-moscheen--das-gericht-verurteilte-ihn-und-verwies-dabei-auch-auf-die-weltpolitische-lage-geeignet--einen-orkan-zu-entfachen,10810590,10365520.html

Yeah, remember those idiots who protested against street view and the newspaper made a picture of them in front of their home and published the article online?
http://www.rp-online.de/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-stadt/nachrichten/Buergerprotest-gegen-Google_aid_892897.html

Sorry, article is in german, but the picture is there.

Sorry but I think that view is wrong (90% wrong),

With some information from the wikipedia page [1] about spain.

Which says that only 20% of the electrical energy
comming from nuclear plants, this contrasts
to the 16 + 32 (coalfired and combined cycle plants) so this part comming from fossil fuels

Where last year, we saw a spike in prices
and energy is bought on energy stock markets up to one year ahead.

Also taking into account that spain had
a very low price[2] of ~11 €-cent per kWh.

even lower than the EU average of ~14 €-cent
and even lower than france price of ~15 €-cent
(france produces a vast amount of their electrical energy in nuclear power plants ~80%)

And that the spanish nuclear power exit bill dates from 2006[1] and mandates the exit to 2024 at moment of now, no nuclear power plant was shut down, also they are ment to be.

So I don't think that, and don't see that these numbers indicate, that the biggest effect on the prices are due to subsidized renewables.

More looking at big(german) energy firms buying spanish energy producers and using their momentum
to increase the prices.

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanien#Atomenergie
[2] http://www.rp-online.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/energie/Strompreise-in-Europa_bid_17861.html

[2] use the numbers stop at spain :)
prices are in €-cent

Too subtle. Go for a unary clock tower 750 feet tall.

Clockmaker, you must be watching too much sci-fi series... :-)

Read carefully: they did not clone Copernic, but only reconstructed his face like by forensic means. If you are interested in a quite similar case (and dare to open another German website :-) ), you might be interested in the reconstruction of a pirate's face, which could be the famous German pirate "Klaus Störtebeker". They used a nearly 600 year old skull and quite similar procedures. However, DNA-analysises are still an option to clearify ancestory aspects.


Regards,
Stirz

hotties like ... Barbara Bush

I dunno, she looks pretty cute to me.

Oh, did you mean Dubya's mother or his daughter? :)

/. is international, so you might wanna check it out:

Tagesschau
Welt
Rheinische Post
Spiegel Online
Stern

All of these sites have good picture coverage for those who do not speak German. And they are way faster than all US sites at the moment!

Here is the link to that newspaper article (in German!): Lottogewinner