Meeting its targets looks hard

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    that making the remainder clean would mean covering some 2% of Germany’s surface, as much as its entire transport network, in wind and solar farms.

    And that’s supposed to be a problem? Wind farms don’t really cover the space they need, you can farm under them without any issues and I just need to look out of the windows that there is a lot of roofs left that can take up solar panels.

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      You can even put solar panels over farm land, as long as your crop is shade resistant. It also has the additional effect that it reduces temperature extrema while maintaining average temperature over one day.

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      Hand out incentives to put solar panels on private owned roofs and private power storage and this reached a few months. Making something the economic decision by adding incentives is far easier to sell than enforcing something by law.

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        Making something the economic decision by adding incentives is far easier to sell than enforcing something by law.

        But also more expensive. Anyway, there actually are incentives, but I’m not sure to which degree those can effectively be extended. Right now there’s simply a shortage in terms of qualified people who can put those things on a rooftop. I.e. if you want to become a roofer in Germany, now’s the time.