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Article: ENERGY AUTONOMY: GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT RENEWABLE ENERGY
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- Energy Law Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Foundation of the Energy Law Journal 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ENERGY AUTONOMY: GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT RENEWABLE ENERGY, by Hermann Scheer, Earthscan 2007.
Reviewed by Darrell Blakeway*
Dr. Hermann Scheer, member of the German Bundestag since 1980, is a distinguished leader of the world renewable energy community, and a moving force in establishing Germany as the leader of renewable energy development through the most effective legislation anywhere in the world. His most recent book, Energy Autonomy, was published in German in 2005. The English translation was published in January 2007. ' Scheer argues that environmental advocates must press for massive and rapid development of renewable energy, and to halt the further development of fossil and nuclear ...