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An experimental apartment block in Hamburg heated by a skin of algae.
Archive for the ‘Germany’ Category
March 26th, 2013
Category: Biofuels, Built Environment, Climate change, Energy and Environment, Germany, Woolgathering
February 18th, 2013
The strange belief that militias are necessary for liberty.
October 27th, 2012
Confirmation that solar grid parity has arrived in Germany, and what it means.
September 15th, 2012
Greek (and of course German) electricity is much more reliable than American.
September 8th, 2012
Spanish labour costs are painfully converging with German ones.
July 12th, 2012
A German family gets solar panels installed, hooked up and registered in 8 days.
July 4th, 2012
A German company builds a 4 MW solar PV plant in 15 days.
May 23rd, 2012
Charlemagne has a proposal: Merging first names to make Frangela is too familiar for leaders who barely know each other. Homer is too American (or worse, Greek). Merkollande sounds too close to Merkozy. That leaves just the shortened Merde, which at least sums up the state of the euro.
May 19th, 2012
A proposal for large solar panel leasing scheme in Spain funded by puritanical Germans.
May 1st, 2012
Implications of the imminent arrival of grid parity from solar PV.