Last year, Europe passed the 100 GW mark in installed wind capacity. Advances in wind turbine efficiencies never stop. Siemens and Vestas are now erecting turbines in 6 MW class, with both now developing 8 MW. Coming soon. Spain now gets over 50% of its power needs from wind. Britain is building out, as are Denmark, Holland, Germany. (I advisedly note that as part of the €400 billion Euro “Desertec” build out of wind and concentrated solar in North Africa- shipping power via HVDC to Europe- Siemens is putting up 7.500 wind turbines. These will be a new type— putting out 8 MW apiece. 60.000 MW or the equivalent of 60 nuclear power plants going up in that trade wind rich area. A team at the University of Stellenbusch in South Africa developed a “Permanent Magnet Excited Induction” for a Danish wind developer- which boosts output on turbine generators by up to 20%, and which will let turbine manufacturers boost capacities from 6 to 8 mw on big turbines. Smaller turbines then become economically feasible in other areas with lower wind rates as well.

For Germany alone, we are estimating a good 130 GW of wind installed by the end of 2025. Of course, all the European or South African, or Chinese advances will go into the U.S. wind industry- boosting turbine efficiencies while cutting production and installation costs. The Bloviating fat butt can rage on, but he can´t stop the global developments- where wind is number 1 in installed new power generating capacity.

If we get on to solar. Well, Germany just beat its own record again last year, and installed another 7 GW in rooftop solar.
New developments, some coming from South Africa and the U.S.A. – will push efficiencies from a current 15% to 50% and even more. Again, the most promosing new development comes out of the University of Stellenbusch in South Africa- where something the size of a tablet computer puts out the equivalent of quite a few square meters of conventional solar. There are other developments which slash the costs of manufacturing the aluminum backing, glass covers (with glass voltaic added) copper, and silicon (cutting energy costs by 80%) – and we can expect the rooftop solar installation to go to over 20 GW p.a. by the end of 2015-at grid parity- giving a total of over 257 GW installed solar capacity by the end of 2025. This gets us to renewable redudancies- which are needed if we aim for demand response renewable systems in Diversified Smart Grid coordinated modes.

I`ll drop a comment or two about “Germany´s hidden renewables” that the old bloviating, pig flatulance Limbaugh never even noticed because it is beyond his limited imagination.
They will also change the nature of energy in the U.S. as they impact.

He lives in a world where one can create a character and play it out in public, receiving huge amounts of money in return.

This guy has made a major fortune. His net worth is estimated to be anywhere from $300 million to over a billion dollars. He’s right there with Mitt Romney in being one of the country’s richest people. Rush is one of the 1%.

Lying and being obnoxious for that sort of money – lots of people would gladly take his place.