Energy Matters reports 1.3 Million Solar Power Systems In Germany, in a record setting year. German solar photovoltaic collectors generated 28 billion kilowatts, in 2012, supplying 5% of Germany's total demand for electricity.

via Daily Kos

The Canadian porn actor Luka Magnotta, who's suspected of murdering and dismembering a Chinese student and mailing his body parts to Canada's top political parties, was reading about himself on the Internet when he was arrested Monday at a cafe in Berlin, Germany.

CBS News

Germany set another record with renewable energy.. in the first half of 2011, renewables accounted for fully 20.8 percent of power production... The goal... is to draw at least 35 percent of production from renewables by 2020... opposition parties claim that 40 percent or even more is realistic.

Grist

You all know by now that the US spends about twice as much, in terms of percentage of GDP, as most other industrialized nations do on health care, with no better and possibly worse average outcomes and generally lower life expectancy ( Read more... )

Germany will finally clear its First World War debt by repaying nearly £60 million this weekend... The bill would have been settled much earlier had not one Adolf Hitler reneged on reparations during his reign.

-- Daily Mail

The Governator just signed into law a bill, AB 920, that will require electric utilities to buy all the power generated by home solar panel or wind installations. Previously, a utility would only have to zero out a homeowner's electric bill; if more electricity were supplied to the grid than a home consumed, the utility got the electricity for ( Read more... )

"World War II lasted five years." -- NPR reporter this morning, discussing the fact that World War II started on this date in 1939, when Germany invaded Poland ( Read more... )