Will Germany banish fossil fuels before the U.S.?

Grist: What would it take to transform the whole country's electric grid - to shut down all of its old power plants, and move to a system that generates electricity exclusively from renewable resources? Well, that's exactly what Germany's trying to do - not decades from now ... but now. Correspondent Rick Karr reports on how German political parties of every stripe are now backing a plan that is expected to nearly end that country's use of fossil fuels by 2050. Watch Germany`s green revolution on PBS....

URL: http://grist.org/climate-energy/will-germany-banish-fossil-fuels-before-the-u-s/
Enclosure: http://video.pbs.org/video/2326679795