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Japn on the way to becoming the world leader in solar power

The U.S. media rarely reports on the huge marches by this pro-solar, anti-nuke movement in Japan. Now, four years later, all the nukes are still shut down …. and the lights are still on.

Why? Because the people’s solar movement has worked every day to install millions of solar panels everywhere in Japan. It is working

Four years after Fukushima, Japan is solar-powered Bay View by Theresa Coleman and Paul Kangas, 29 Apr 15

In the week before the March 11, 2011, earthquake at Fukushima, one person, Prime Minister Naoto Kan, did an extraordinary act that set Japan’s energy course in history for the next 100 years. He was able to convince the Japanese Parliament to pass a solar payment policy (SPP), that required big utilities in Japan to pay solar home owners $0.53 kwh for 20 years.

This is amazing. One, because the rate is very attractive to solar home owners and two, because he even made the effort. This one policy shift is now making Japan one of the leading solar powered nations on earth – far ahead of California or the U.S.

Number one in solar generation in 2014 was Germany. The same year they won the World Cup in soccer. They are on a roll. It is going to be interesting to see if China becomes No. 2 in 2015. It is a tight three-way race between Japan, Germany and China. Who will win?

The really big question is: “What inspired Prime Minister Naoto Kan to introduce this solar payment policy to the Japanese Parliament the day before Fukushima? Was it Chernobyl?

Apparently Kan had read the book “Solar Economy” by Hermann Scheer the year before. It got him to thinking about how solar policy could actually be drafted to shut down all the nuclear power plants in Japan over the next 50 years……….

This one policy shift is now making Japan one of the leading solar powered nations on earth – far ahead of California or the U.S. Number one in solar generation in 2014 was Germany.

Little did Kan realize that what would happen within hours of Parliament passing the solar policy, on that fateful day four years ago, March 11, 2011, would forever change the course of history for Japan and the whole world.

Sounds impossible, right: Japan going 100 percent solar? Does that seem possible to you in 2015? Most people, who don’t understand the power of the sun, still think Japan going 100 percent solar is insanely impossible………

Now, in 2015, the three atomic cores are still melting down into the earth beneath Japan, creating the gravest crisis on earth. And for the most part, the U.S. media works hard to ignore reporting any news about the fact that the three atomic cores are still melting………

Still today, in 2015, every Friday, 100,000 people march on the prime minister’s house, demanding Japan go 100 percent solar and all the nukes be kept shut down. Every Friday.

The U.S. media rarely reports on the huge marches by this pro-solar, anti-nuke movement in Japan. Now, four years later, all the nukes are still shut down …. and the lights are still on.

Why? Because the people’s solar movement has worked every day to install millions of solar panels everywhere in Japan. It is working…………

Kan introduced the solar payment policy in Japan in 2011. Then Fukushima made that solar policy permanent in Japan.

Japan shut down all its nukes and yet the lights stayed on.

I predict, because solar is rising so rapidly in the land of the rising sun, that Japan will never restart any of its nukes – even though the U.S. media is demanding Japan restart one of its nukes. Let us pray that the solar home owners in Japan win this race against nuclear power. Our lives too depend on solar winning………

Community advocate Theresa Coleman and solar energy advocate Paul Kangas can be reached attheresalynncoleman@yahoo.com and dr8kangas@me.com, respectively.

http://sfbayview.com/2015/04/four-years-after-fukushima-japan-is-solar-powered/

April 30, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized