All Entries Tagged With: "Eco-Industrial Complex"
Fluorescent Light Bulbs: Dark Ages in Perspective
EDGAR GAERTNER (Frankfurt) As you know the EU is phasing out traditional incandescent light bulbs in order to “save energy and the climate”. Consumers are obliged to successively replace the simple and cheap incandescent lamps once invented by Thomas Alva Edison by relatively complex and expensive fluorescent lamps with electronic stuff. Perhaps you do not [...]
The Efficiency Battle is Won – Don’t Lose it
The development in energy efficiency for appliances has been remarkable over the past decades, notes Einar Du Rietz. The best thing is not only the cost savings, but that not even a galloping increase in the amount of white goods in use in the world would harm the environment. Quite the opposite. However, the industry seems [...]
Germany’s High Solar Subsidies Under Fire
EDGAR L. GÄRTNER (Frankfurt) Although the document released on Saturday, October 24th doesn’t mention it, the new German government coalition between Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and Guido Westerwelle’s Liberals will be obliged to sooner or later reign in Germany’s high subsidies for photovoltaic power. One of the main causes of high German power prices is [...]
