Solar Power - its time is coming.
Just as solar power is getting better, much better, it seems Australia is set to miss out. This according to a recent story Solar Power Faces Early Sunset in Australia by Paddy Manning in the Sydney Morning Herald. First the good news - a technology based on molten salts effectively manages to store the sun's energy through the night providing 24 hour electricity from the day's rays. In Spain they're so impressed they have 1400MW worth of solar power coming on line. That's enough clean power to keep New South Wales going. By 2020 American scientists say solar power will be comparable in cost to other electricity. And the May federal Budget allocated $1.35 billion for solar power stations. The bad news is that we could be doing so much more. Just where we sit between green science, business and government is very clear in Paddy Manning's excellent snapshot. Read it all here.
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