Renewable Energy Jobs Soar in Germany

[jpak]

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=52089

Renewable energy jobs in Germany shot up to 249,300 in 2007, almost double the 160,500 green jobs in Germany in 2004.

According to revised government figures, as many as 400,000 people could be employed in the renewable energy industry in Germany by 2020. This is 100,000 more jobs than a previous study had predicted due to the boost that the country's economy and exports received as a result of massive investment in the renewable sector.

"The systematic expansion of renewable energy is not only good from the environmental and climate policy point of view but also for innovation, growth and employment in Germany" Sigmar Gabriel, the German Minister for Environment said.

New figures published on March 14, 2008 (Bruttobeschäftigung 2007 by Marlene Kratzat, Dietmar Edler, Marion Ottmüller and Ulrike Lehr) show that solar sector jobs are being added the fastest but that employment in all green energy segments has been growing rapidly.

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[ladjf]

1. The same thing would happen in the U.S. if the government would

back the renewable energy initiatives.

[diane in sf]

2. If the pugs don't stop or steal the elections we'll probably get started next year

[DCKit]

3. Yeah, the Republics are terrified of not having control over the energy source...

And, since they don't believe in science, the idea of turning photons into electrons and wind into electric current scares the bejeebus out of them. Booga, booga. If you're not burning something - coal, NG, witches or heretics - you can't make energy.

Thankfully, even GE is clambering aboard to build the largest and best wind turbines ever seen - despite the current lack of federal incentives. A few community based energy co-ops to set an example would be a hell of an object lesson and is bound to happen, in time.

[ladjf]

4. Some ideas are just too powerful to be squelched. That will be

the case relating to the use of alternate energy sources. Sooner or later, the basic math of the the alternate energies will overwhelm the fossil fuel monopolies.