Laugh till you cry wrote on May 31
st, 2024 at 12:16pm:
Rooftop solar power is becoming a fool's paradise.
Hands up all those who wouldn't install rooftop solar and a battery, if the government paid for it? (See the conclusionof this post).
Quote:1. You can not be independent of mains power while you have street lighting from the power company.
Ah - so you are talking about going off-grid, most of us aren't.
Quote:2. Rooftop solar will become so prevalent that there will be an excess supply, and in such circumstances, the rate for infeed will be $0.00
Ah - so you want to be paid for your excess electricity. Ok, better get the grid upgraded so it can cope with the excess at midday.
Quote:3. Daytime clouds or prolonged cloudy periods will cause a drop in the amount of solar power generated.
No kidding, that's when your grid connection to large scale generation from the Pilbara, NT and Qld is required, along with severql Snowy 2.0- scale schemes.
Quote:4. Batteries would have to be quite large to guarantee power availability during prolonged bad weather.
Domestic solar and batteries will reduce elcectricity costs for homes considerably. No one is talking about going off grid in Oz's cities.
Quote:5. Batteries have a finite lifetime and disposal costs will increase with growing numbers of battery systems.
A recycling industry is required; as for costs, the currency-issuing government will need to issue debt free money in the Oz Treasury, to fund a timely transition to the zero economy.
Current obsolete government
tax and borrow systems will not survive, because the IPCC is already calling on governments to do more, rather than slacking off on their Paris commitmnets, as a result of false government austerity/"balanced budget" ideologies.
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