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jasper,

There is no excuse for not plucking this low-hanging fruit.

It's not low-hanging fruit. It's very expensive way-up-high fruit. Germans pay three times as much per Kwh for electricity as Americans do. The German government is phasing out its massive solar subsidies because it can't afford them any more. And as others have pointed out, despite having the largest installed solar capacity per capita in the world, solar still provides only a small fraction of Germany's energy.

I think solar has enormous potential in the long term, especially in the sunbelt, with its combination of lots of sunshine and lots of low-density housing (i.e., lots of exposed rooftop space for solar panels). But it shouldn't be overhyped in the short term. There are still enormous practical and economic obstacles to large-scale deployment.

by Bertie on May 31, 2012 6:35 pm • link • report

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