[FatherOfTwo]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... AEL4B1.DTL

300 homes per acre... hmmm.

[osiriss]

Indeed very good news. Make your own energy and put the excess back into the grid. And getting eletricity bill reduction.

At least, some country are reacting to the problem. Even though they use rhe environnement as a reason instead of peak oil. Still it's as good for peak oil.

[savethehumans]

I'm surprised that even an alternative-energy progressive nation like Germany is doing this...it makes too much sense!

I really do hope it works. SOMETHING is going to have to, even on a "simplify society" scale!

[Frank]

I thought the government was behind this - they're paying rebates reportedly on the level of $.70/kwh the first year and declining after that. Apparently there is a LOT of panels going to Germany right now. I spoke with an installer in California who says he gets emails, faxes, calls, etc. almost daily from German farmers looking to buy container-load quantities!

[Devil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')owerLight's three Bavarian solar parks, consisting of 57,600 silicon-and- aluminum panels, will generate 10 megawatts of electricity -- enough to power 9,000 German homes.