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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Well what do you expect.
When electricity becomes stupid expensive people are going to chop down trees and burn them.
I like how they "almost doubled the price of electricity in 10 years" and only have 1.2% of solar power to show for it.
What's going to happen when 10% of their power comes from solar?
It's going to be down right unaffordable to most people.
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Nah, it's mostly rapeseed oil etc. purposely planted for generating biodiesel, green waste and harvest residue. German forest mainly produce timber at a managed rate.
Once it becomes cost effective to produce solar farms and roofs the volume of that will go up and consequentially the price will come down.
In fact they already do. Subsidies are falling, they are close to being obsolete.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany
The falling subsidies have slowed the rate in which new panels are added a bit, but once net costs sink below profit it will definitely grow faster.
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