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mauried@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Mauried) wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2008 11:55:09 +1000, "00ZBN" <00ZBN@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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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. ...
> >
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >
> >Yes, it really is that insane.
> >--
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> >
> >Warmest Regards
> >
> >Bonzo
> >
> >"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
> >
>
> Its insane for some, but it does wonders for the shareholders of solar
> panel companies, and for Solar panel Installers.
Solar is still expensive... oil companies probably enjoy it that way.
Where is the American initiative for mass production of solar panels?
Wind vanes and turbines? Kansas fields could be flooded with thousands
of them by now.
The sun ****nes on brightly... quite insane...
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