Solar subsidies

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.


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Solar systems

New technology in any field is usually expensive when first introduced - it only get's cheaper when more and more people start to embrace it. One thing that holds people back from using solar energy, for example, is the cost of deploying it - but over the course of time, the payoff and sustainability is much better than what the current mainstream energy methods are promoting.

Bio fuels is one energy source that seems to be getting a lot of attention these days - ethanol is produced using crops such as corn, sugarcane etc. The results so far have been impressive given the effect it has on the levels of smog reduced. In Brazil, they have been using these methods now for the past few years and have seen a significant reduction in green house gases to say the least. But it is also interesting to see what effect this has had on the amazon rain forests. Scientists have noticed a large number of acres vanishing due to the use of ethanol as fuel - land is cleared at a rate beyond the imagination (approx. 7 football fields per day) and a big contributor to this land clearing is due to ethanol production. So even though this technology looks promising on the surface, it is still costing us more in the overall sustainability of our eco-system. So I don't think this is the answer somehow.....

Solar energy, still to this day has the cleanest and most sustainable application. It's now a matter of finding cheap solutions to help bring this into the mainstream more quickly. Recently, I can across a DIY method for setting up your house. You can check it out here.

This I believe is a step in the right direction and well worth taking notice how things progress along this path. Let's hope that we can change the world around in time to be able to live a happy, sustainable life.

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