(October 29, 2012 at 10:02 am)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: this sounds nice, and there are currently a few companies using this technology - but most of them are american and an israeli company which are unlikely to share technology.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/...el/4333722
Since our goverment decided in 2011, after the Fukushima catastrophy, that all nuklear powerplants have to be shut down by 2022 and that by 2020, 50 percent of german energy should come from green sources, all sorts of nice concepts have arrived, but only few actualy work.
currently 25 percent of german energy comes from renewable sources and energy prices have gone up quite a bit.
I`m for the "Energiewende" but the current administration is making quite the fool out of themselves - by throwing arround with concepts and hardly anything being started except for the giant offshore windpark projects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_off...in_Germany
I gotta give Germany a lot of credit. I don't doubt that energy prices will rise in the short term, but in the long run, it'll be worth it. It's not a 4 year game that we Americans seem to think it is, it's a long term sustainability that we should be aiming for.
