Solyndra anyone?
Posted on 07/12/2015 8:57:39 AM PDT by rktman
Australia has slammed the door shut on any new government-funded investment in renewable energy schemes as Prime Minister Tony Abbott extends his “war on wind power”.
In doing so Mr Abbott has sent a clear message to the mendicant green renewable energy sector that there will be no more cheap state-supplied financing for its projects.
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At least Abbott knows a loser when he sees one. He probably has ethics and the ones wanting the wind farms were hucksters just like here in the US.
Solyndra anyone?
“At least Abbott knows a loser when he sees one”... Oh, did he see a picture of the lyin’ king? :>}
It is not a “War on Wind” but a “War on Waste”.
Don’t let the liberals frame the debate!
these wind farms are finished. They are way to expensive per kilowatt hour but beyond hat they are ugly as sin. What happened to environmental impact analyses. You can’t live near these horrible panorama polluters. They have blinking red lights that drive you crazy at night. Texas shut off subsidies. The answer is coal and natural gas. These wind turbines are breaking all over the country. They last about 18 months and then the generators burn up. Repair is not worth it. They are finished.
Good idea. Wind farms are extremely expensive to maintain, are unsightly, and are a major threat to migratory birds. Far better to aggressively pursue solar panels, especially now that the cost of production have gone way down in recent years.
I like that they indiscriminately slaughter song birds.
Abbott is no pussy. He boxed to finance his way through school, and still boxes regularly.
If there's *anywhere* in the civilized world where solar *might* make sense it's Australia.If you travel 100 miles away from *any* part of their coastline you find *desert*.Some of the driest desert on earth...where you have 360 cloudless days a year.Add to that the fact that these desert areas are at latitudes where the sun's rays are strong and you have abundant free power.A country like that,with its small population (fewer than California) just might benefit from solar.
Completely correct. In fact, Australia has some of the world’s best conditions for solar power, easily as good as what you get in the southwestern USA.
Except that the only way to keep the solar panels in clean working order is to wash them off with water, which they don’t have.
Good move. All renewable energy causes Climate Change. It’s the physics stupid.
A third of Perth’s water is now from desalination. Theoretically one could use some of the solar power to produce water from the coast and pipe it there. Properly one would factor all those costs into the solar cost efficiency equation. I’m not optimistic about those results, but it is at least physically possible.
The ONLY way???
May I remind you the the Mars rover was essentially dead due to dust accumulation on its solar panels, until a dust devil blew them clean?
Oz may not have much water, but they still have plenty of air to blow the panels clean enough.
The problem with solar is that it needs storage, either as batteries or some sort of pumped storage. Otherwise, a country needs to build sufficient nuclear and fossil-fueled power stations to handle peak loads when the sun isn’t shining.
When individual buildings and cities can become self sufficient by utilizing storage, solar will take off. Until that point is reached only subsidies keep solar going.
If a hybrid car could charge its battery while parked in the sun all day, it could cut gasoline use significantly I suspect, but to be sure we’d have to drop all the electric vehicle subsidies too.
Using solar energy to produce something useful, in this case desalinated water, would essentially constitute a storage mechanism for the solar energy because excess water could be desalinated during the day and stored for use at night.
They keep predator birds away and rodent populations explode in areas with wind turbines. That creates a whole other set of problems.
“Australia has slammed the door shut on any new government-funded investment in renewable energy schemes as Prime Minister Tony Abbott extends his “war on wind power”.
More like a war on unicorn farts and crony subsidies.
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