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Going Green
"Jock" wrote in message
news the solar component the govcos are patting themselves on the back stupid over is going to amount to nothing the way everyone is buying a plasma / whatever big screen TV and whatever other Chinese appliantology (RIP F.Z.) to fill the living room. Yearly power consumption per capita has soared. The new residentials that need the power the solar is meant to save now have less than before and the taxpayers (us good guys) have to pay the bill for solar initiatives and desal then new power stations as required in the future. That's a great price for your solar all the same. Jock i accept what you're saying & it TICKS ME RIGHT OFF that power suppliers (of whatever kind) feel the need to "respond" to "consumer demand". we have solar power chez-moi, (with a wee wind turbine that sadly doesn't do as much as i'd like - just wait till we get a whomping great one & then we'll be sweet!!). the system is a little old & rather small but the fact is that it's plenty good enough because we are not connected to mains power (this property never has been). consequently, we rapidly adjusted our "demands" downwards when we realised what the limitations are, what we can do & what we can't. if we wanted to use bucketloads of electricity we would have to pay a lot of money for a lot of petrol for the generator - but far easier, cheaper & much more desirable to downgrade our expectations & it's simply not that we have inferior quality of life or anything like that. we just don't burn through power like other people do, it's not worth it to us. as our system improves, we may use more power or we may not (minimalism can be addictive!) but the fact is that when one suffers for excess electricity use, one rapidly adjusts downwards! since we are all aware that massive quantities of mains power is wasted en route to people's houses (about 10%) - and even more is wasted inside people's houses, i think the cart has been put before the horse (quite possibly in the name of "economic growth") & it makes me livid but i won't go into that here :-) the reality check that much of society is heading for rapidly is going to come hard for some of them. but it can't come soon enough imo. as a general comment to o.p. & everyone, a big step forward will be when inexpensive systems are commonly installed to people's homes that have no batteries, but rather, are simply wired into the grid & excess is stored via the grid & power is taken via the grid. going to canberra (which i do sometimes) always breaks my heart (tee hee), but _especially_ when one considers that it's sunny there almost every day of the year, yet so few residents have that type of system i have described (which is a fairly new idea, but one that i think will go off). if there was a law against being greedy & dumb, the questions of sufficient clean power for everyone & questions of pollution & so forth simply wouldn't be issues at all. kylie |
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