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Renewable Energy-Germany
Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick  
Hanno Renn, a Freiburg taxi driver, invested in a communal solar electricity system on a building in the German town in 1993. "Everyone laughed and said I was wasting my money," he says.

But now he has paid off his investment and earns a regular income from the electrical company for the power he generates. "I have had the last laugh," he grins.
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schmick (71) - renewable energy Newbie | 2007-07-24 05:26:11
the rest of the world talks about it - the Germans do it and have been doing it for years - if our politicians would get get off their fat backsides and just do it - we would be a lot better off
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addy (70) Newbie | 2007-07-24 06:43:12
Get real, at what cost - energy is cheap - what they are doing is all artificial.
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