Where have you been you miserable ****? You need to learn to hug the trees, kiss the moon, cut the grass with scissors, (or pay a flunky to do it). Buy a 1.0 diesel car or a Honda 90, 200mpg them ****ers man.
Dalai Lama Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it’s essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.
That might not be a good idea. If he put them up a while ago, he was probably getting a very good (or obscene depending on which way you look at it) rate for the electricity they produced. If you put them up now, you're likely to get a much lower rate. Plus, the technology is developing quickly, and the price coming down now the Chinese are manufacturing them in bulk. You may be better off just buying new ones. However, the reason that I say the original rate may be thought of as obscene is that solar panels are in some ways a tax on the poor to pay the affluent middle class. It's fairly wealthy home owners who have the roof space and can afford the install costs. The government makes the electricity providers pay well over the odds for the electricity that's produced, and they don't just absorb the loss, they just pass it on to their customers. So, people with solar panels, who have a nice house and cash in the bank to start with, are basically being paid by the people who don't own their home, or can't afford the install costs, i.e. the poor.
Agree with you regarding solar panels often being more accessible to the wealthy, although I have noticed that many of the new social housing being built up here have solar panels installed (Doxford Park being an example) but disagree with you regarding nuclear power being the only way forward..It is my opinion that every new house built should have solar panels, and we should also make greater use of our natural assets such as wind and the ocean. I do think that we should develop nuclear power stations as well though, but the safety of them is still a concern of mine..
He only put them up a couple of years ago, there's no way I'd fork out for a set of my own anyhow. The two ways I look at it are, 1) It'll add value to my home and 2) I won't get exorbitant electricity bills any more.
