Posted: 14 Feb 2013 12:00 AM PST
Amory Lovins, in an
open letter to Obama at Huffington Post:
These
technologies scale faster than any other. No form of traditional
generation — coal, gas, or nuclear — scales nearly as fast as
efficiency, solar, and wind. Gigawatts of solar and wind can be added in
months — not the years to decades required for traditional power
plants. Cloudy Germany installed three gigawatts of solar in the month
of December 2011 alone. That is 1.6 times more than was installed in the
entire U.S. Germany’s scale-up has cut its solar-system costs to half
of ours.
