Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun

Andy Prough writes "Apparently those wise folks at Fox have figured out America's reluctance to invest as much money in solar energy as Germany — the Germans simply have more sun! Well, as Will Oremus from Slate points out, according to the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Solar Resource map comparison of the U.S. and Germany, nothing could be further from the truth — Germany receives as much sunlight as the least lit U.S. state — Alaska."

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Re:Germany has had consistent policy

[KonoWatakushi]

Consistently bad policy, and it is costing them both economically and environmentally. They are ramping coal generating capacity to fill the gap, and largely dumping the hard part of the renewable problem on neighboring countries. Until Germany is self-sufficient, it is highly disingenuous to tout them as an example of the success of renewables. At the very least, one should also consider the tremendous cost of electricity from these sources, and the Danes have the honor of paying the highest household electricity prices in the world, with the Germans not far behind.

Also noteworthy is that €1.5 billion of German nuclear profits have been siphoned off to subsidize renewables. Gutting a profitable, clean, and carbon-free source of energy to prop up one which has no hope to stand on its own is insane.