On Thu, 8 May 2008 11:55:09 +1000, "00ZBN" <00ZBN@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>May 08, 2008
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>http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/a_power_of_nonsense/
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>The Brumby Government's latest green plan, to buy extra power generated
>by solar-powered homes, is as useless as it is pricey - but it could
>have been even worse:
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>The Age has learned that Environment Minister Gavin Jennings' plan for a
>generous scheme to encourage more Victorians to power their homes with
>"green" energy was rejected after the forceful intervention of Energy
>Minister Peter Batchelor. ...
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>Government officials calculate that under the scheme adopted by cabinet,
>the bills of non-solar households will rise by about $10 a year on
>average. They say that under Environment Victoria's more generous scheme
>(pushed by Jennings), the increase would have been about $100.
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>Mr Batchelor last night said under the new scheme, households would be
>paid nearly four times the retail rate for their excess energy. Mr
>Batchelor argued it could cut the time for an average household to pay
>off the cost of installing solar panels - about $21,000, minus a federal
>rebate of $8000 - through cuts in their energy bill to less than 10
>years.
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>Think it through.
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>Taxpayers are subsidising a source of intermittent power that produces
>electricity at four times the usual cost, using solar panels so
>expensive that even with huge government rebates they will cost
>householders at least a decade to pay off. And this is done to make an
>unmeasurably tiny cut in the gases claimed to cause a global warming
>that might not actually be bad, but in any case stopped a decade ago.
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>Yes, it really is that insane.
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>Warmest Regards
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>Bonzo
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>"Consensus is neither a scientific fact nor im****tant in science, but it
>is very im****tant in politics." Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of the
>Natural Resources Steward****p Project (NRSP.com), Former Professor Of
>Climatology, University of Winnipeg
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Its insane for some, but it does wonders for the shareholders of solar
panel companies, and for Solar panel Installers.
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