Germany Pays People In The Country To Use Electricity

On Christmas Eve and early into the next day, Germany’s power trading exchange, EPEX Spot, had to pay companies and other large energy consumers up to $60 per megawatt-hour to use energy.

The company bills consumers negative rates when too much power is generated from renewables and there’s a low demand for it.

In general, experts say, solar and wind generation is wildly inconsistent, with a lot of it based on the season.

The online publication, Green Matters, reports that, for example, Germany expects wind turbines to produce around 12 percent of overall power, but that the number can significantly rise if there’s major winds.

Man Stands in the Middle of an Expressway to Take Selfies in Broad Daylight Only for This Shocking Thing to Happen

The man was trying to take selfies on this road when he was knoked down

A British man has been knocked down and killed after apparently trying to take a selfie on a German motorway, Metro UK reports.

The man, thought to be 22 and from Scotland, was with two friends when he was hit by a car on the A24 Autobahn in Gudow, near Hamburg, at around 11:40am on Sunday.

In a statement, police in the nearby city of Lubeck said witnesses reported seeing the three men taking ‘cell phone pictures of themselves’.

German Dies After Slumping At Lagos Airport

A German citizen, Mr. Brenard Christo, who slumped on Friday at the General Aviation Terminal of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, has died at an undisclosed hospital.

The spokesman of the Lagos Airport Police Command, DSP Joseph Alabi, confirmed the German’s death on Saturday. Alabi said the deceased was waiting to board a local Arik Air flight when he suddenly collapsed.