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O.T Carbon Tax v's PV ecomonic? but for who 19-Aug-2011 At 10:49:08 AM Cool Hand Lock

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As an electrician. And also working on high polution plants. I have some insight into this.

This was sent to all personel after the anouncement of the carbon tax:
"Due to the Federal governements bla bla bla.... poor returns... bla bla bla.... raise in costs of 100million for carbon... bla bla bla...bad for this industry... bla bla bla..... we are spending 100million on installing clean energy generators to reduce our carbon output. bla..."

Sorry mister big poluter. But this is why we need a carbon tax/price(a rose by any other name).
So that industry like yours who have poluted the air for free for years get their acts together. Even with the "industry threatening increase" they are still investing 100s of millions of dollars on these plants. That's not the type of action a business would be taking if they really thought that this tax was "industry threatening".

And as I like to give my opinion. PV arrays.

It's cheaper to get 20% of the population to install a decentralised power generation system than to build a new power plant and associated upgrades to the distribution system.

Distribution system: Is being neglected on a huge scale. Just wait a few years, you'll be told the price of power will quadruple again to pay for all the network upgrades that everyone is currently neglecting.

Answer to all of this: Install your own solar/wind power on your house/business... lots of it.

And if your don't own a house, no one really cares about you, as you are not a real person.