FOX: We must invade Germany to get our sun back!

[kpete]

Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun

Good lord, how do these people dress themselves?

Thanks to Fox News and its expert commentators, millions of Americans now understand the real, hidden reason why Germany's solar-energy industry is so much further along than ours. Turns out it has nothing to do with the fact that Germany's government has long supported the industry far more generously, with policies like feed-in tariffs that stimulate investment in green technologies. No, the real reason is much simpler, explained a trio of journalists on Fox & Friends: It's always sunny in Germany!


http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/07/fox_news_expert_on_solar_energy_germany_gets_a_lot_more_sun_than_we_do_video.html
http://news.slashdot.org/story...

[MrScorpio]

1. I've lived in Germany for four years

That's the craziest shit I've heard in a long time.

Live in Germany, prepare to get wet.

[Dirty Socialist]

2. "Give Me Back My Sun!"

Sorry. Just had to say it.

[madrchsod]

3. wow i did`t know germany was closer to the equator than the usa...

ya never know what you can learn from the fox news

[longship]

4. All it does in NV, AZ, UT, and SoCal is rain, rain, rain.

And the Great Plains are cloud covered all summer long.

FOX is seriously delusional. They just make shit up.

[lunasun]

5. "It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well "

And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence. *1984

Costa del Sol, Italian Riviera all filled with Germans tourists- why why do they abandon their own sunny spots at home???

[Thav]

6. How do they dress themselves?

They don't, cuz they're pants-on-head stupid!

[Kablooie]

7. I live in Los Angeles and I can't tell you how many times I heard people envy Germany's weather.

Can't tell you at all.

[DLnyc]

8. Easy to see Fox is right

(Provided you understand that 1.0-1.9 is much larger than 5.0-5.9)



http://www.oksolar.com/abctech/world_solar_radiation.pdf

[Cirque du So-What]

10. And that's southern Germany

Northern Germany is in the range that doesn't have hours of solar radiation listed. Southern Germany is in the 1.0 - 1.9 band that, in the continental US, is only present in Washington, Oregon, northern Idaho and northern Montana.

[freshwest]

13. Yup, just blistering up here from all that sun!

[subterranean]

9. This explains why Fox News viewers are more misinformed

than people who watch no news at all.

[freshwest]

11. Don't know whether to laugh or cry at this one...

I do have a tea bag relative in sunny Texas who says solar won't work there. Hurricanes is why, she said. The fact that the rainy northwest is using solar power despite the clouds didn't faze her. You or I couldn't make this stuff up, but damn if Fox doesn't do their best. Sigh.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Will the Germans give it back to us if we pay the ransom?