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Dust on a solar panel will reduce its efficiency by up to 50%

Green Jobs in the Dust


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By —— Bio and Archives September 24, 2009

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In the brave green Australia of 2020, just a decade away, Canberra has mandated that about half the Simpson desert will be covered in solar panels.
Have they allowed for the army of cleaners and the giga-litres of water that will be needed to clean the panels after every dust storm? Maybe this where the Green jobs are coming from, and where the Cubbie Station water is going to?



Viv Forbes -- Bio and Archives | Comments

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.


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