Germans have adopted Green energy strategies with considerable enthusiasm, including farmers who have fields filled with solar panels and plant between the rows. In our own country this could make sense for certain crops to grow in very sunny country which could benefit from some intermittent shade.
I have seen a (very) few fields given over to solar panels but none with the interstices cultivated. The barn roofs, however, are replete with solar panels because they were subsidized. The windmills in the North Sea are a disaster with difficulties transmitting the electricity created in between massive maintenance break down problems. The coal plants have to be kept up because the solar and wind are unreliable and come off-peak hours.
In a spasm of green virtue posturing the atomic plants are being shut down with the result that many of us get our electricity from atomic plants with the same risk if the wind is blowing here from France but at greatly increased cost-electricity in Germany is the highest in Europe.
The enthusiasm for solar it seems to me is purely a function of subsidies coupled with an unremitting green propaganda campaign.
When solar panels are ready, yes get them in the Southwest America but we have not yet solved the attendant problems as I understand them of battery etc. nor have we made them economically viable, reliable or endurable.
