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renewable energy is the way I can provide for me and mine. I can also show
you how to provide for you and yours. it's an individual thing. no
infrastructure needed, since only those who can, and want to, will. do what
you want, I'm busy generating my own.

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"Greig Ebeling" <greige@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:393e22ee.49400070@news.bigpond.com...
> On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 02:10:05 GMT, kinsler@frognet.net (Mark Kinsler)
> wrote:
>
> >Greig Ebeling <greige@bigpond.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I compare this to the price I pay for my electricity and natural gas
> >>purchased from a utility, and I scoff at people who think that solar
> >>power is going to be a big thing in the future.  It isn't, it is way
> >>too expensive.
> >>
> >>BTW, notice how this would still be really expensive if solar panels
> >>were much cheaper.
> >
> >School science texts still push solar energy, and with great vigor.  I've
> >asked science classes in schools located along the Ohio River, center of
> >electric power production in the USA, how electricity is produced.  Every
> >kid thinks it's by solar energy.
> >
> >M Kinsler
>
> It is not just the kids who are being brainwashed with this nonsense,
> ask any lay-person on an Australian street about energy issues, and
> they will tell you that solar energy is the answer to all our woes.
>
> There is a TV advertising campaign, declaring that fossil fuels are
> causing damage to the environment, then showing a giant wind turbine
> (neatly hidden behind a hill, silently spinning) with the caption -
> "The answer is blowing in the wind".  Yet wind power schemes are
> theoretically able to produce no more than a few percent of our power
> before becoming uneconomical.
>
> There is a billboard advertising campaign in Sydney, using frightening
> images of tornadoes, and deserts, declaring that impending climate
> change can only be remedied by the use of Green Power.  "Visit
> http://www.greenpower.com.au " where you are told that by paying a
> little extra each quarter, that you will being buying renewable
> energy.  If only people realised that this campaign optimistically
> hopes to be producing only 2% of Australia's electricity from
> non-hydro renewable sources by 2008, and they will probably fail to
> achieve that.  More than 90% will still be coming from fossil fuels.
>
> The energy companies are attempting to purvey an image of
> environmental responsibility, making a show of a few renewable
> sources, whilst quietly continuing to build coal-fired power stations
> where they make there real money.  But they are deliberately
> misleading the public.
>
> People need to know that the answer is not simple, that solar and wind
> are for quite obvious reasons, very small players in our energy
> future, and fossil fuels and nuclear power are the only real answers
> to providing the bulk of our electricity.  Only then can we make
> balanced political decisions about energy issues.
>
> If anyone wants to argue that renewable power is the way ahead, then I
> want them to include in their response a rough design for their
> intended renewable energy scheme, rough costs, and a rough idea of how
> the capital is to be raised to build the infrastructure.  No more weak
> platitudes and PC nonsense.  Put a real solution on the table, or
> shutup.
>
>
> ...Greig