Solar Energy Hits the Dust
Dust on a solar panel will reduce its efficiency by up to 50%
The green coalition in Canberra recently decreed that by 2020, just a decade away, Australia must produce 20% of its power using feeble energy sources such as sunbeams and sea breezes.
This Green Plan will require vast areas of dry and dusty Australian deserts to be covered by solar panels.
Have they allowed for the army of cleaning persons and the Murray Rivers of water that will be needed to wash the panels after every dust storm?
Maybe this where the Green jobs are coming from, and why Penny Wong is hoarding water permits?View Comments
Viv Forbes——Bio and Archives
Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, has spent his life working in exploration, mining, farming, infrastructure, financial analysis and political commentary. He has worked for government departments, private companies and now works as a private contractor and farmer.
Viv has also been a guest writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Queensland and mining newspapers. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects.