Fox News "Expert": Solar works in Germany because of all their sunshine

[Junior]

http://www.slate.com...ter_jcr:content

 

Just why is solar power so much further along in Germany than in the United States? It isn't because American politicians ignore solar energy in favor of fossil fuels. Nope. It is because Germany is sunnier, apparently.

 

"They're a smaller country, and they've got lots of sun. Right? They've got a lot more sun than we do." In case that wasn't clear enough for some viewers, Joshi went on: "The problem is it's a cloudy day and it's raining, you're not gonna have it." Sure, California might get sun now and then, Joshi conceded, "but here on the East Coast, it's just not going to work."

 

Yes, everyone knows Germany for all of their sun soaked days.

 

 

As Media Matters' Max Greenberg notes, it isn't. Not even remotely. According to maps put out by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, virtually the entirety of the continental United States gets more sun than even the sunniest part of Germany. In fact, NREL senior scientist Sarah Kurtz said via email, "Germany's solar resource is akin to Alaska's," the U.S. state with by far the lowest annual average of direct solar energy.

 

 

Oh Fox News, you never cease to entertain.... and misinform!

[rawhide]

Kinda like the VP

[funhusker]

I don't know....

 

East Berlin was a dark, cloudy, and very dreary place. Yet, West Berlin was sunshine, roses, and roasted pigs over a firepit...

 

All, 20 feet away from eachother...

 

Are Americans now a victim of our own propoganda???