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> despite successive governments that were (likely monetarily* ) opposed to solar and wind, What are you talking about? > Both were due to government incenti
by nandomrumber 9mo ago
> despite successive governments that were (likely monetarily* ) opposed to solar and wind,
What are you talking about?
> Both were due to government incentives,
How can the government be opposed to it, while also providing rebates to rooftop solar?
Anyway, it was all a big bait and switch manoeuvre, as the solar feed in tariff per kWh is only a fraction of what you pay, but it didn’t start out that way.
That continued existence of any incentive to add rooftop solar is dependent on continued electricity price hikes that out pace general inflation.
That’s how intelligent Australian voters are.
We have the world’s largest known uranium deposit, which we’re happy for others to use, but instead we voted for this shit.
Rooftop solar is a scam.
What it does is shifts the long term maintenance costs from the industrial sector, or government if you’re a socialist, to the owner of the roof owner, the residential / business customer. All the while leaving the affordability of the entire fiasco up to whichever bunch of wankers are in Canberra this week deciding the feed-in tariff.
Why would anyone think any of that is a good idea.
And I say that as someone who recently installed solar.
- BLKNSLVR 9mo ago> What are you talking about? The (now twice dissolved) Coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party > How can the government be opposed to it, while also providing rebates to rooftop solar? I'm pretty sure one government put the incentives in place, whilst another didn't roll them back, but also significantly talked down anything renewable, whilst pulling stunts like bringing a lump of coal into parliament. (from memory, not entirely sure of facts). > Rooftop solar is a scam. I beg to differ. I beg to differ even further when rooftop solar is coupled with a battery. Where I may agree with you, is that solar should have been a much earlier priority for any Australian government due to Australia's abundance of space and sunshine and (confusingly, since we have so much coal) our globally quite high-priced electricity. A better strategy should have been in place for Australia's overall electrification. I think rooftop solar is great because it's saved me a lot of money in electricity that would have otherwise been sourced from an expensive grid. I think rooftop solar overall could be considered a scam because it advantages those who already have enough money to afford it and the ownership of their dwelling to be allowed to install it, and disadvantages those who are not in the overlap between those two venn diagrams. Self Fact check: Australia is around the global average for electricity costs, not as expensive as I thought.
- nandomrumber 9mo agoThe subsidies given to private individuals and business for roof top solar would have been better off used to build grid scale solar. You get more solar per dollar spent. Australia silent have around global average electricity costs, we should be a case study in providing the cheapest electricity, given we have the worlds largest known solar reserves (ha!), the worlds largest known deposit of uranium, and we export about the same volume of LNG as Qatar. And there’s the iron ore, the zinc, lead, aluminium, copper, gold. Why settle for average. No. Every Australian citizen should receiver a cheque every quarter for their share of the revenue generated from the proper management of our natural resources.
- BLKNSLVR 9mo ago100% agree. Scroll about halfway down to the billboard picture: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-04/engaging-young-australians-punters-politics/104878384 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-04/engaging-young-austra...