solar panel rebates
Tuesday, 17 July 2007 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eMy sister was telling me tonight that apparently our creepy damn prime minister is making a big publicity deal of promising rebates for solar panels. It sounds too good to be true -- John Howard? helping the cause of alternative energy? Could it be he has seen the light?
Well, no.
It seems, after you strip away all the bullshit, that to be eligible a solar system has to be connected to the grid and not use battery storage. Most of the energy required is at night so a solar power system without batteries becomes ineffective at the time it's most needed. In other words the solar system has to be almost totally useless in order to attract a rebate. Howard is actually discouraging solar technology while making it look like he's encouraging it. What a swindler!
Well, no.
It seems, after you strip away all the bullshit, that to be eligible a solar system has to be connected to the grid and not use battery storage. Most of the energy required is at night so a solar power system without batteries becomes ineffective at the time it's most needed. In other words the solar system has to be almost totally useless in order to attract a rebate. Howard is actually discouraging solar technology while making it look like he's encouraging it. What a swindler!