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Will Germany banish fossil fuels before the U.S.?
2013-01-23 12:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: What would it take to transform the whole countrys electric grid - to shut down all of its old power plants, and move to a system that generates electricity exclusively from renewable resources? Well, thats exactly what Germanys trying to do - not decades from now ... but now. Correspondent Rick Karr reports on how German political parties of every stripe are now backing a plan that is expected to nearly end that countrys use of fossil fuels by 2050. Watch Germany`s green revolution on PBS....
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Category:Electronics and Electrical