Meanwhile, the black yellow government is using the ostensible cuts in PV prices to mount a frontal assault on the EEG. Economics minister Rösler is leading the charge, despite the FDP hovering below 3%. The recent attacks completely undermine the security of renewable funding that 'Schland built up over 20 years.

Renewables are now strong enough to be attacked with all the weapons available to fossil dinosaur conventional energy. And not just in 'Schland, of course.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin