Re: Pretty awesome solar news

2014-07-09 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
All true. But every lurching success brings us closer to the day it is cheaper and easier. On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Jeff Garza wrote: > > But, that success also comes at a price. Germany has the highest cost for > electricity (per KwH) of any country in the world. So I guess if you w

Re: Pretty awesome solar news

2014-07-09 Thread Jeff Garza
But, that success also comes at a price. Germany has the highest cost for electricity (per KwH) of any country in the world. So I guess if you want to sink a huge chunk of your GDP into centralized solar power, then great, but your citizens will pay for it. Dearly. The success in Australi

Re: Pretty awesome solar news

2014-07-09 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
Germany has had a huge success with their solar adoption. (and their sunlight and snowfall issues and angles are not ideal) On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:39 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > > It's an expensive endeavor and does not tran

Re: Pretty awesome solar news

2014-07-09 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:39 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > It's an expensive endeavor and does not translate in every region, let > alone every country. Not to the extent that they're talking about in the > article at least. The cool part to me is that in the life cycle of any product or tech

Re: Pretty awesome solar news

2014-07-09 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I wonder if Austrailia has as big of a gas and oil lobby that we have? On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:39 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > Note that the article is speaking specifically to Australia, especially > with the financial details, not from a global perspective. Assuming that > I'm reading

Re: Pretty awesome solar news

2014-07-09 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
Note that the article is speaking specifically to Australia, especially with the financial details, not from a global perspective. Assuming that I'm reading this right the gist is that AU households are moving to installing rooftop solar panel arrays which augments the production and reduces the

Pretty awesome solar news

2014-07-09 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
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