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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 23 2012, 09:54 PM (914 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Feb 23 2012, 09:54 PM Post #1 |
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This was posted on another forum by someone opposed to alternate energy sources: Many households in Germany are no longer able to pay their electricity bills. As a result, around half a million households are sitting in the dark. http://www.thegwpf.org/international-news/5035-green-germany-half-a-million-families-sitting-in-the-dark.html Go green, go dark |
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| Banandangees | Feb 23 2012, 10:02 PM Post #2 |
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Hey! It ain't easy..... it - just - ain't - easy! |
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| Deleted User | Feb 23 2012, 10:07 PM Post #3 |
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i am curious if the reasoning is correct on this one or if there are other reasons. |
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| Banandangees | Feb 23 2012, 10:10 PM Post #4 |
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Not sure what you mean? |
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| Chris | Feb 23 2012, 10:21 PM Post #5 |
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Which reason are you asking about? a) half a million households are sitting in the dark because they can't pay bills b) half a million households are sitting in the dark because they want to go green |
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| Deleted User | Feb 23 2012, 10:26 PM Post #6 |
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b, obviously since that is what the original poster is implying the reason is. i have no idea if he is right or wrong or somewhere in between. Hence the question for someone who lives there. I imagine there are a couple million households in the US & Canada also in the dark because they can't pay bills as well. we know the reason for that one since we live here. |
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| tomdrobin | Feb 24 2012, 12:05 AM Post #7 |
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Didn't Germany just decide to shut down all their nuclear reactors? It will take awhile to get enough green energy up and running to replace that power. I just listened to a piece on China and energy the other day. China is going great guns on green energy. The reason being their populace wants the modern life, and to do so with just fossil fuels is not possible. |
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| Banandangees | Feb 24 2012, 12:43 AM Post #8 |
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Apparently they've just "retired" one portion of their attempts at "green energy."
Edited by Banandangees, Feb 24 2012, 12:46 AM.
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| MrsS | Feb 24 2012, 12:53 AM Post #9 |
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Frankly, I was very surprised. In the link it says: Because of unpaid bills an estimated 600,000 households in Germany had their power cut off in 2010, , so I went to the original link from "DIE WELT online", a paper which I consider a credible source, and they wrote that in the end 62 000 households were cut off for unpaid bills. I wonder why that should have something to do with green energy - it`s just bad planning of the household-budget! BTW, the power from our local power provider consists 25% of renewable energy. tombdrobin, not all nuclear power plants were shut off in Germany, just maybe 2 or 3 of the oldest ones. |
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| Brewster | Feb 24 2012, 01:04 AM Post #10 |
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I wonder just how old the information in that article is? If it's more than six months, it's wrong. Solar panels are getting cheaper every day - China is now producing panels for less than a coal plant, and then there's no cost for coal afterward. I suspect the guy in the article is quoting the cost of the original panels, before they were mass produced. Edited by Brewster, Feb 24 2012, 01:32 AM.
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