In Germany, the government has had to pull back subsidies for solar power in homes because the scheme costs too much. Al Jazeera’s Nick Spicer reports from Berlin.
In Germany, the government has had to pull back subsidies for solar power in homes because the scheme costs too much. Al Jazeera’s Nick Spicer reports from Berlin.
@1ghostronin Saying that when the sun goes the power goes is deceptive, this guy must know that the energy can be stored in rechargeable battery form and used after dark, if he doesn’t then he has no business speaking to the media since I know that and am not in the energy industry, I don’t have solar, and I learned that while paying a bare minimum of attention to the world.
Earth is doomed from overpopulation and pollution so what’s the point behind “green energy” when the oil barons always win because they PAY the politicians to win.
@Mauhadeeb28 Yep. It was like 3am. 😛
Nuclear power provided 50% of the German base load. And the biggest problem, the final disposal of all nuclear waste, will be just one investment of ca. 5-10 Mrd €.
Sun energy has cost already 23 Mrd € and does almost nothing.
So it is a good thing that the subsidies get reduced.
Because when the sun isnt there neither is the energy. The sun comes up every fucking day without fail! and comes up for an average of 12 hrs a day! just because people are stupid and wasting the power playing with all their gizmos and gadgets, means people are stupid and wasting their power!
@Lieu3C4 Absolutely
@Lieu3C4 And yet the common Australian has to pay the carbon tax.
The Australian Govt did the same bloody thing here, except they anticipated it might cost too much. Now the cost quoted @ 0:59 was about $1 billion per year over 23 years (for the Germans). The GDP of Australia is $450 billion per year, of Germany $3,577 billion. Nothing by comparison does Solar cost, and it ranks higher than Nuclear in $/MgWHr, once infrastructure is installed. Both these cut backs are bogus bananas, plastic as a Tiajuana hairdo.
@julianchosun And I agree, those industries have been making record profits and it’s almost a crime to be subsidizing them to this day.
@julianchosun – It sounds like the real problem is trapping and holding the power for use over night and on grey-sky days; investment in better batteries is the challenge, not cutting back on investment in solar power!
@DowJones19 – “An industry that has been subsidized for more then 10 years and still can’t walk on it’s own feet is an industry that is a waste of money and should be not helped anymore.” You know, that’s exactly how i feel about the nuclear, coal, and oil industries, which have all been receiving subsidies for much, much longer than any greentech companies, solar included.
NOOOOO!!!
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@atrios28 YES! All of those! Every single thing you said damaging to every single individual as the only way to procure enough property to aid those people is to take it from those same people and split it among many “middle men”.
As far as “spending less”: That in itself is an oxymoron. There is no way to subsidize in order to spend less.
@DowJones19 as if everything else isn’t subsidized? how many tax breaks did the oil industry get?
@DowJones19 Amen to that dowJones
Maybe the german companies can export the solar panels to Australia, as the bulk of panels available here are made in China, you cannot beat German quality and they usually make the most efficient inverters as well.
We need good German engineered products here in Australia.
An industry that has been subsidized for more then 10 years and still can’t walk on it’s own feet is an industry that is a waste of money and should be not helped anymore. This also goes to show that the present green energy tech is not only too expensive but not viable for use (in present time).
What the Germans need to do is to take that money and invest in research that will make green energy viable and cheaper. Every developed country should be doing that actually.
those filthy solar panels need to be stopped!
@Mauhadeeb28 What evil subsidies would those be? Maternity & paternity leave from work for mothers and fathers to be? A 35 hour work week? Free education up through graduate school to those qualified? Medicine whose chief motive is not to turn a buck but prevent illness & care for the sick & elderly? Taking a humanistic rational approach to social ills? Spending less on brute force, criminalizing & stigmatizing those who deviate from being clones of the establishment? Tolerance?
I really hope this doesn’t come to pass, Germany’s solar subsidy program is a really damn good idea.
insolation, you mean…
bah, isolation is poor in germany anyways
@DurzaGaiden It’s their excuse when people actually watch the video and learn that Germany is scheduled to begin debate of this issue in Summer … From the Headline you’d think that Angela Merkel has abolished all gov’t subsidies of Solar power … Nein!
Al Jazeera began w/500 million Qatari riyals (US$137 million) from the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa. All money from the black gold which is really just 300 million year-old Solar Power.
I’m astonished at how misleading this video title is.  I expected more impartiality from al Jazeera. Which is my fault. I simply forgot that your network is paid for by the Petroleum autocrats
🙂 I’m glad I live in Arizona. Best place for those.