Companies call for tougher climate action

sounds like you need a new car. later models are far more fuel efficient.

 

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lols - sounds like you should invest in renewables yourself!

 

Define 'renewables' please.

 

Wow. its only a matter of time before im fined...

 

Or, you can quit living in your fantasy land.
the estimated cost of solar is hovering around 20k to get completely off grid for the average family.
How do you expect the average family to afford this when their savings is drained due to higher energy costs...

Its sickening

 

Yep....One wonders how many of these anti-petro fools has a complete 'renewable' energy system. My guess.....0

 

no idea.

you need to introduce better policies.

I don't pay electricity bills.

I get paid.

 

Nice. So, while you are living it up, the rest of us suffer. it must be nice...

So, hows that economy doing over there?

 

really well, thanks.

the budget is expected to be back into surplus by 2013, unemployment is running at about half the rate you have, the average wage is $68,500 per year ....

pretty good really.

 

Please don't thank me.
And where is this land of leeches?

 

I realise you're jealous - which is why you feel you have to call us leeches.

 

Actually the whole world hates you. but its okay for you to call it jealousy.

 

Why would you get off the grid? That is silly

Especially since the grid is becoming increasingly powered by wind - and soon, solar thermal with molten salt storage.


You really don't understand this subject at all, do you.

 

LMAO

Until "the grid" gets renewable energy prices down to 4 cents a kilowatt hour, you are just playing niche hobbies.

 

Heh! Are you kidding?

Australians are the richest people in the world

AUSTRALIANS are the world's wealthiest people on a median basis and second in the world behind Switzerland on an average basis, according to a new report.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...it-suisse-report/story-e6frg926-1226171128694

How is that 10% unemployment and plummeting dollar going for you Seppos?!?!

 

So..that would be right now:

Solar energy cost hits par with coal fuel
THE cost of solar power in parts of NSW has for the first time crept below that of coal-fired electricity - seen as a key tipping point for the expansion of renewable energy.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/e...h-coal-fuel-20110817-1iybc.html#ixzz1e9Bl8ELP


i think you need to keep up with the times old man

 

Yup, We have your champions in power draining our economy out to the world. But dont worry, when we get the right people elected in 2012, we will get our money back...

 

lols ... I am not american you know ... and last time I looked at that economy it was up to (*)(*)(*)(*).

 

lols ... definitely a few wallabies loose in the top paddock .....

 

I can say that you have a few screws loose. I say it like that cause im 'Merican.

You and Charles Manson have alot in common...

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/382818/april-26-2011/charles-manson-believes-in-global-warming

 

The only reason for this is the feed-in-tariff imposed on the utilities which is the 'Solar Bonus Scheme' legislated and then suspended in March by NSW.

The solar industry had to protest to just maintain the status quo.

http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/det...ent-backtrack-pleases-solar-groups_100003245/

Why does NSW's sell-back program have to be subsidized in the first place?

 

Because coal is heavily subsidised


If there is a single mechanism that stands in the way of clean energy development across the globe it is fossil fuel subsidies, which amount to around half a trillion dollars worldwide, each year. That much has been recognised by the International Energy Agency and by the G20, who have promised to remove them....

The Tamberlin inquiry into the NSW energy privatisation has revealed how far that thinking extended into the strategy behind the state’s half-baked, and half-completed electricity privatisation. In short, it found, the gentrader assets would not have attracted any buyers were it not for a massively subsidised and heavily discounted coal supply. It also found that NSW coal-fired power stations depend on those subsidies to maintain their place in the merit order of the National Electricity Market.
http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/01/nsws-great-big-coal-subsidy-scandal/

 

It makes sense to subsidize so-called fossil-fuels as they are standardized, are transportable and most affordable. It does not make sense to subsidize sources of energy with limited applicability (such as solar).

 

errr...they are most affordable because they are subsidised.

Well - were most affordable. Solar PV is now cheaper than coal. Wind is as cheap as coal. And with the investment that emissions trading will promote - solar thermal with storage will be so much cheaper than coal - we will wonder why we used coal in the first place.