EclecticLip

Germany has been among the world’s leading supporters of wind power, and is the world’s leading supporter of solar photovoltaics.  And now, it looks like they’re set to do the same for geothermal.  (From RenewableEnergyWorld through Tyler at Clean Break.)

Oh, the industries we could develop with similarly far-sighted government policies…!
Canadians interested in learning what should be done would do well to read Hot Air, by Jeffrey Simpson, Marc Jaccard and Nic Rivers.  To my pleasant surprise, when I offered to lend my copy to our CEO, he took me up on the offer, finished it within the week.  He’s since begun speaking more forcefully about the need for constructive government policies for cleantech in Canada. 

Seems to me, the endgame for GHG-free electric power generation will be:

• geothermal for baseline power
• solar thermal to handle the brunt of peak daytime loads (nice intro here)
• PV solar for local distributed power (as per the “smart grid” or Al-Gore-coined “electranet”)

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