On May 7, 8:55=A0pm, "00ZBN" <00...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> May 08, 2008
>
> http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/com...
>
> 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:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Think it through.
>
> 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.
> --
>
> 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
And those solar panels have a relatively short lifetime too. After 10
years their efficiency will have dropped significantly.
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