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Originally Posted by Mad Mel
I fully support this idea. I also own a large number of shares in a carbon nanotube company, which is entirely coincidental.
Rooftop solar panels are pretty commonplace here. My electricity provider will install a 1.5kw grid-connected system for $3000, but I don't know a lot about these systems or how the money would work out. Apparently this system with the typical sunlight in my area will generate 2165kw hours / year, while the average household use in Australia is 6570kwh / year, so I suppose it's trimming a third off the average household electricity bill.
Rooftop solar water heaters are also very common. I would imagine that an electric hot water tank is a bit of an energy hog. |
And that's what should be happened in Canada and the USA. In Germany almost everybody has solar panels on their roofs, entire farms do solar. Excess electricity is sold back into the grid for profit. That's how you go green, give people incentives.