{"id":382,"date":"2010-10-19T15:15:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T15:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2019-04-11T19:43:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T19:43:33","slug":"energy-transformation-is-in-the-hands-of-the-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2010\/10\/19\/energy-transformation-is-in-the-hands-of-the-many\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy transformation is in the hands of the many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hermann Scheer (1944-2010): German Lawmaker, Leading Advocate for Solar Energy and &#8220;Hero for the Green Century&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2010\/10\/15\/hermann_scheer_1944_2010_german_lawmaker\">One of His Final Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[emphasis mine]<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>HERMANN SCHEER<strong>:<\/strong> The big mistake in the energy debate is  that most people think, because they believe that there is a monopoly  and the expertise for all energy activities in the hand of the existing  energy players. Many people, including governments, including many  scientists, who get their orders for studies from them, they believe and  think that the <strong>present energy suppliers<\/strong>, the present energy trusts, the  companies, they <strong>should organize the transformation<\/strong>. And this is a big  mistake\u2014a big mistake\u2014because this part of the society is <strong>the only one  who has an interest to postpone it<\/strong>. The only one. All others, all the  others, have an interest to speed it up. But as long government think  that it should be left to the energy companies, we will lose the race  against time&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hermann Scheer (1944-2010): German Lawmaker, Leading Advocate for Solar Energy and &#8220;Hero for the Green Century&#8221; in One of His Final Interviews [emphasis mine] &#8220;HERMANN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-energy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Scheer_windrad_pv_feb07_1710.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-6a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}