This article highlights biologist Kiyohiko Ikeda’s early warning regarding Japan’s 2012 solar feed-in tariff (FIT), which set an unsustainably high purchase price of 42 yen/kWh. Ikeda argues that such policies will inevitably collapse, driving up electricity bills, hurting households, and pushing energy-intensive industries overseas. Citing Germany’s drastic reductions to its FIT program, the article criticizes the vested-interest structure behind “environmentally friendly” slogans and emphasizes the author’s and Ikeda’s shared belief that exposing these truths constitutes genuine patriotism and national defense.

Well, it is probably tied to vested interests, but under the slogan of “environmentally friendly,” people do foolish things without thinking ahead.
2012/9/6
Kiyohiko Ikeda — Born in Tokyo in 1947.
Completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Biologist.
Currently Professor at the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University.
His major works include The Lies of Environmental Problems, The Real Environmental Questions, and his recent co-authored book Our Insect Collecting, among others.

…Boldface in the text is mine.
Japan began the feed-in tariff (FIT) system for solar power this July.
It is set at 42 yen per kWh.
Since the generation cost of thermal power is about 7 yen per kWh, the price is far too high, and it is certain that the system will collapse sooner or later.
If people rush into solar power because it “makes money,” electricity bills will soar, ordinary households will be driven to financial ruin, and manufacturing industries that consume large amounts of electricity will flee overseas.
Well, it is probably tied to vested interests, but under the slogan of “environmentally friendly,” people do foolish things without thinking ahead.
Germany, which introduced FIT earlier, agreed at a joint conference of the upper and lower houses held in late June to reduce the purchase price of solar power by 20–30%, and to stop purchasing solar power entirely once cumulative installed capacity reaches 52 million kW.
The German weekly Der Spiegel points out that “solar power may become the most expensive mistake in the history of German environmental policy.”
(To be continued.)

This matter must be heard throughout Japan, both the voice of Professor Kiyohiko Ikeda and my own.
Why?
Because this is what true patriotism—true salvation of the nation—actually means.
The intelligence of Professor Ikeda and my intelligence represent genuine patriotism and genuine national salvation, and they are of the highest order in Japan.