Why did Ronald Reagan rip out the solar panels Jimmy Carter installed on top of the White House?

I completely agree with George Monbiot. I'm doing research in solar power, and I think the government are _insane_, I don't know what idiot thought this was a good idea. It's so predictable.

There's going to be a backlash because using current generation silicon solar panels in the UK is a bad idea. People will assume all solar is worthless and there will be a backlash which will be a public relations disaster for legitimate power sources. For example: the subsidy may be £430/ton CO2 saved in the UK, but that's because residential solar panels cost about £5-6k / kWp.

Thin film power stations like Waldpolenz cost about £3k/kWp back in 2007, and prices have fallen since (iirc FirstSolar have cut costs by about 20% since then). Additionally, panels in California produce about 2.4 times the power of panels in the UK because it's sunnier. Using thin film tech in California is already 80% cheaper per kWh than the tech the UK government are pushing.

UK residents will be paid 44.3p/kWh with 41.3p subsidy. Ignoring interest etc, 80% cheaper means that you could get the same power in California for 8.86p/kWh - lower than the grid price (but assuming 3p/kWh wholesale, that's still just a 5.86p subsidy, ie 85% lower than the UK gov't are coughing up) Ichbas: George Monbiot is one of the most scientifically astute journalists in the UK. I expect he understands how solar works (he's spent years researching green stuff and usually gets pretty close to correct), but he often simplifies for the newspaper audience.

This seems like your usual well thought out liberal plan to save the world but perhaps the carousel fraud is a new scam for MP's to bolster their losses from the expenses row.... lol... but this just sums up the environmentalists so called "save the world" plan.... they don't have one! Everybody with any intellectual merit knows that nuclear is the only answer for the proposed clean power problem all the other green ideas although 'nice' will achieve nothing at best and at worst could cripple society!

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.