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Someone will be talking about financing offshore wind farms in Berlin at the biggest European conference on the topic.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 12:44:48 PM EST
I took this photo for you, Jerome!  Not quite large scale but together with a number of solar panels, this provides 95% of the electricity on Flat Holm island, which I visited on saturday.





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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 01:17:40 PM EST
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Very cool.  Congrats to someone.  ;)

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 01:31:40 PM EST
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A closer link.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 01:59:37 PM EST
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Ah, I didn't think someone was a wind energy finance expert ;-))

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 02:38:51 PM EST
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She's scrambling about now, tearing out her hair, trying to remember agreeing to speak at this conference. lol.  ...assuming someone is a she.

I guess, in a way, we are all "someone."  Everyone is...  

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 02:43:52 PM EST
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Someone was definitely a she when we met her in Paris. Mind you, as I've demonstrated myself, stuff like that doesn't have to remain fixed.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 02:49:45 PM EST
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Neither does the hair colour!
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 03:00:17 PM EST
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Are you implying that her husband might be in for quite a surprise when he returns from America?

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 04:18:23 PM EST
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Congratulations, Jerome!  

Are you taking CH along?  If you need a member who doesn´t speak German, just let me know. (:

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 03:01:27 PM EST
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Ah. Crazy Horse. I don't know. I expect there's a good chance he'll be around.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 03:19:59 PM EST
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We had fun when we visited in 2004.  I'm not sure if I could live there (way too big for me) but it's definitely a fascinating place to visit.

You've been there before, right?

by Plutonium Page (page dot vlinders at gmail dot com) on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 03:22:07 PM EST
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Actually, the only time I've ever been to Berlin was around Christmas 1990, i.e. just after the reunification. Very weird place.

East Berlin was very much looking more like Moscow than like West Germany, but it was the only place in Germany with ATMs that took foreign cards... Very decrepit, but much nicer looking than the West.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 03:25:53 PM EST
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East Berlin was/is nicer looking because it was less heavily bombed by allied forces.
by Loefing on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 06:07:06 PM EST
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I was in Berlin and Dresden in the summer of 1998. The whole centre of Berlin was a construction site (and I had recently watched the movie Das Leben is eine Baustelle, too) and I could see the Reichstag undergoing refurbishment. Dresden and Leipzig were also enjoying a lot of money for reconstruction at the time. I would expect most of East Germany to look very nice 10 years later.

Oye, vatos, dees English sink todos mi ships, chinga sus madres, so escuche: el fleet es ahora refloated, OK? — The War Nerd
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 06:12:52 PM EST
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Yes. East Berlin is not to say East Germany.

East Berlin may have been spared, relatively speaking. But of of the territory that became East Germany, most of its major cities were destroyed.

I'm grateful to see that progress is being made in reconstruction.

This is essential to an eventual European union.

by Loefing on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 06:57:00 PM EST
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Well, city centers don't make a country... but yes, much of the Aufbau Ost money went into reconstruction.

I saw Dresden and that center of Berlin (the surroundings of Potsdamer Platz) finished last year. But also plattenbau, abandoned industrial installations, and deserted villages.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Sep 19th, 2007 at 12:18:09 PM EST
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Parts, surely. But in West Berlin more was rebuilt and less torn down to make room for concrete monsters.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Wed Sep 19th, 2007 at 10:31:33 AM EST
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Interesting indeed. But also expensive, unfortunately.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Wed Sep 19th, 2007 at 10:36:04 AM EST
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