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To: slacker711 who wrote (63543)	5/5/2008 5:08:16 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542009

Does Germany have enough real estate to use much wind? Speaking of wind, on the TV show, NUMB3RS, the family went green and decided on a wind turbine. Those crazy Hollywood types...

To: slacker711 who wrote (63543)	5/5/2008 7:48:36 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542009

>>I have to say that the more I read about solar the more I realize that we are still talking about very small numbers. Perhaps the shift will accelerate over the next decade, but if a country with heavy solar subsidies is only aiming for 3% of power generation by 2020, we are going to need to find quite a few other sources besides solar to accomodate our growing needs.<< Slacker - I would say that the fact that solar makes up only a small part of the world's power generation has very little to do with its potential. It could certainly account for much more. It's just a question of choosing where to invest. Solar is getting to be a good, cost-competitive, practical alternative. It's only going to be a matter of years, not even decades, before it will become a more obvious choice. I predict that we will see a huge boom in solar power generation, both concentrated and distributed, in the next ten years. - Allen