Detail Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling; Solar Power   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8755 (Oct. 2011), page 16. Topik: Solar Energy; Mismanagement; Government Subsidies Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.68 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel The rush to subsidise solar power over the past decade has been massively wasteful and squalidly political. Defenders of solar subsidies point out that, unlike those on biofuels, they do not actually take food from the plates of the hungry. That is true; but it is a pretty low bar. Fixating on solar power, which is still a more expensive way to generate electricity than most, has delivered little by way of emissions reductions for the subsidy buck, and left governments paying through the nose for whatever the industry can ship, rather than encouraging true innovation. Still, by pushing the price of panels down, subsidies have created possibilities that were not there before. In some sunny parts of America, and elsewhere, people who can afford the upfront costs of solar panels on their roofs can now get electricity from them more cheaply than they can get it down the wires from a power station. There is much that governments can do to encourage such progress in the future without repeating the mistakes of the past. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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