Posts tagged 'politics'

Australia Building Massive Solar Power Plants

SOLUCAR PS10 According to news.com.au reporting about the Australian federal budget for 2009, Australia will be spending up to \$1.5 billion over the next nine years to build up to 4 massive solar power plants. Plans for these solar power plants are on a scale the world has never …

Consumerism And Why It Can't Continue

As most of you are probably aware our current economy is driven by constant growth and that the success of any commercial venture is always measured by continued growth of sales, earnings, and market share. Since I have realised this myself quite a few years back I have always wondered …

Feed-in tariff schemes in Australia

A recent news item on the Alternative Technology Association website (www.ata.org.au) highlights some improvements that should be made to the feed-in tariff in power across Australia. A feed-in tariff is the mandated price a home owner is paid for any electricity fed back into the electricity grid …