On the subject of subsidizing solar power roll-outs and which countries are endorsing the practice, I came across a webpage that spells out what the US is up to within this regard.
They are comparing Solar subsidies that with Petroleum subsidies, which was frightening to say the least. You can check out the website for yourself here
It seems more countries are being added to the mix of offering incentives to go down this path, as more and more people start to become more aware of the implications if we choose to do nothing about it. I do hope that we can see the sense in making some noise about this very important topic as the world is basically sitting on tender hooks, and nobody is 100% certain which way the winds of change will take us in the grand scheme of things. At the end of the day, we can only calculate high probability scenarios given the data that's been collected to date, coupled that with a little speculation, to bring us to what we now consider to be the truth.
The only thing to remind ourselves here regarding the truth - the truth is never absolute until it appears.
till next
ps - An easy method to solarize your house can be found here
Showing posts with label green energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label green energy. Show all posts
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Solar system rollouts pick up steam
Well - the march is on fellow pilgrims - the Queensland government (Australia) has an $8,000 rebate for new solar systems installed. I'm not sure if this is relevant for the rest of the country, but is certainly worth bragging about.....
Over the course of next week, I shall do some research to see which countries are already activating such programs, or are at least talking about it. Logic tells me, at least by talking about these issues, eventually enough people will listen to it, which in turn, pushes the process along a bit further.
Our reliance on fossil fuels, has now been proven economically, to be more costly in the future than that of solar energy. For corporations to continue to operate on short-term gain for shareholder satisfaction, means that their decision processes are based on market demand and nothing else. In a nutshell, the CEO's want to keep their jobs - they make decisions on what the consensus (or shareholders) are telling them to do - so to be honest, they are not the real culprits here driving the killing machine of the planet - it's all of us, on some level, influencing their actions.
One interesting expose on how the world moves, is well documented by an independent film-director (David Moore) in a short epic called History's Hidden Engine" (download it for free http://www.socionomics.net/films/history) - amazingly it shows how the stock market usually preceeds with an indicator (Elliott Wave Theory) that essentially become historic predetermined events - most thought provoking :)
till next
Over the course of next week, I shall do some research to see which countries are already activating such programs, or are at least talking about it. Logic tells me, at least by talking about these issues, eventually enough people will listen to it, which in turn, pushes the process along a bit further.
Our reliance on fossil fuels, has now been proven economically, to be more costly in the future than that of solar energy. For corporations to continue to operate on short-term gain for shareholder satisfaction, means that their decision processes are based on market demand and nothing else. In a nutshell, the CEO's want to keep their jobs - they make decisions on what the consensus (or shareholders) are telling them to do - so to be honest, they are not the real culprits here driving the killing machine of the planet - it's all of us, on some level, influencing their actions.
One interesting expose on how the world moves, is well documented by an independent film-director (David Moore) in a short epic called History's Hidden Engine" (download it for free http://www.socionomics.net/films/history) - amazingly it shows how the stock market usually preceeds with an indicator (Elliott Wave Theory) that essentially become historic predetermined events - most thought provoking :)
till next
Friday, October 10, 2008
Green energy
It's interesting that what is most relevant these days, as has been historically noticed - people, don't like change. But change is inevitable - everything changes eventually, so we had better get used to it as not being able to change, will essentially leave you on the sidewalk and others will just pass you by in order to keep surviving. Trying to maintain a world where so many dynamics show up unexpectedly, is a difficult challenge to say the least - so what is the solution you may wonder?
Well - for one, we could start by cleaning up the rubbish that's been scattered everywhere. hoping for someone else to come along to do the dirty work for us is i believe a little self-serving by nature.
We can't expect things to get better unless we all decide to put in some conscious effort to help it along....is one logical step. Even though i can see that a lot is being done with a lot of people, but still we are needing much more effort in order to try steer the future to a better place.
Some things to consider - use green-friendly technologies as much as possible. One that has got me interested at the moment is the DIY hydrogen converters for cars. This looks very promising - the set up and construction of these watercell devices are cheap and easy to build. So much bad press about this is obvious big oil and car companies don't want you to investigate. They want to introduce this stuff themselves to make more fortunes for there fat coffers....
Solar energy - another promising technology, and thank God it's definately being deployed more often these days, and as the demand for this increases, makes it cheaper to produce into the future, so the more we become aware of how important this is for our better future, the better the future starts to look.
Well - for one, we could start by cleaning up the rubbish that's been scattered everywhere. hoping for someone else to come along to do the dirty work for us is i believe a little self-serving by nature.
We can't expect things to get better unless we all decide to put in some conscious effort to help it along....is one logical step. Even though i can see that a lot is being done with a lot of people, but still we are needing much more effort in order to try steer the future to a better place.
Some things to consider - use green-friendly technologies as much as possible. One that has got me interested at the moment is the DIY hydrogen converters for cars. This looks very promising - the set up and construction of these watercell devices are cheap and easy to build. So much bad press about this is obvious big oil and car companies don't want you to investigate. They want to introduce this stuff themselves to make more fortunes for there fat coffers....
Solar energy - another promising technology, and thank God it's definately being deployed more often these days, and as the demand for this increases, makes it cheaper to produce into the future, so the more we become aware of how important this is for our better future, the better the future starts to look.
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