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Uploaded by on Apr 20, 2008

Govt urged to boost solar incentives

Professor David Mills, the Australian who developed breakthrough solar energy technology that's now rapidly expanding in America, says 90 per cent of our electricity can be generated by the sun but only if governments provide the bigger incentives. Supporters say the current incentives even for domestic solar panels on homes are inadequate.

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  • ...'to get these plants in place very quickly ' - yeah, before too many people discover that they could have oceans of cheap electrical energy from small Thorium LFTR reactors = NO MELTDOWN RISK=NO PLUTONIUM WASTE for the A-bomb warlords (which is why as a proven working concept it got dumbed-down fifty+ tears ago) and =waste that ONLY needs a geologic repository for 300years -NOT TENS OF THOUSANDS!!!!!!. Kept stupid by Uranium junkie corp-govs & 'no nukes' commie luddite greens. It'll be back!!

  • Let me just clarify that a bit. When I say "Feed-in tariffs are wrong", I meant "Feed-in tariffs higher than the cost of providing electricity from the grid". If people want to spend their own capital (like those kids), that's fine. Just don't expect me to subsidize it.

  • Feed-in tariffs are wrong. On a gigawatt for gigawatt basis, the cumulative sum of all capital invested under this scheme will be multiple times the capital of an alternative-energy power station, due to economies of scale issues. So what is gained by this?

    This is government interference in the market place at its worst. Socialism gone wrong (not that it was ever right in the first place).

    The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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