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In sci.physics jg <jg@nospam.com> wrote:

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> Has everything to do with markets and nothing to do with the fact that 
> they work.

The market is small not because they don't work, but because they work
at a much higher price than anything else.

> How is a price per kWh is arrived at when normal power bills are 
> redirected into panels until payback time, after which it's 100% saving 
> until they wear out. At the very least it's not consistent over time.

Rather trivialy, actually.

> I suspect it's a loss of revenue at the power station, incentives are 
> little more than a discount since the biggest hurdle as with all similar 
> investments, is finding the initial outlay.

Incentives are tax payer dollars taken forcibly by the government then
redistributed to a pet project.

Solar installations would be a tiny fraction of what they are if everyone
had to use their own money to pay for them.

Not even electricity companies build them without the government "incentives".

> I also suspect your prohibitive pricing is as much a deliberate 
> disincentive as much of the mythology being spun around renewable energy.

Nope.

A lot of it is in the cost of ensuring safety.

Is your entire system UL (or Oz equivelent) approved?



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Jim Pennino