This is awesome!

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Famous cattle station once owned by Kerry Packer earmarked for massive solar farm

An iconic cattle station in the Northern Territory, once owned by Kerry Packer, is revealed as the proposed location for the world's biggest solar farm.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will aim to stop contributing to climate change by 2060 despite heavily relying on coal, one of the most carbon-intensive fossil fuels, for electricity.

And, I would imagine that you believe the brutal dictator of 1.4 billion people. Relying on coal? china is STILL building coal powered electric plants this very day! Both at home, and abroad.

Let's see how "awesome" you believe that solar power is when you're paying $0.66 per kwh of electricity instead of the $0.33 You're paying now. Every country that goes beyond about 20% of electricity generation from "green energy" (the green, apparently stands for the extra green backs the people have the privilege of paying for "feeling good") pays double what they did, before.

He's probably just trying to look better than Trump.

I could use your help on this.

Your house is pretty much self sustaining.

Has solar power increased, or decreased your power bill?

He's probably just trying to look better than Trump.

While china continues to increase it's co2 output in 2019 the USA reduced it in 2019. Even with a huge increase in manufacturing production.

Please understand that my house is a single-family unit, on roughly 1/3 acre, in Southern California's Mojave Desert.  That means that I have a lot more ground surface, as well as roof surface area, available for use in collecting solar energy than do MOST PEOPLE in the USA.  In our cities, there's a lot less available roof or land area per person that can be devoted to energy production than my neighbors and I have.

So, to answer your question:  During summer months my electric bill drops to zero, although I still have to pay for the connection to the power grid.  Our utility company no longer pays us for the power we put back into the grid; but the meter runs backwards.  At night, since I don't have a battery bank to store electrical energy from the day, I draw electrical power from the grid, and the meter runs forward.  At the end of the month, if I've used more power from the grid than I've put in, I have a small electric bill to pay.

During winter, with the fewer hours of usable sunlight, I have an electric bill.

Generally, my electric costs are lower - - - but of course I have to pay for the solar cell arrays as well as for my windmill, plus the maintenance, repair, and replacement costs.  It probably comes out about even for me.  Which means for a city dweller in an apartment building, they'd get absolutely no benefit at all.

We need to develop fusion power plants!

Thanks for that.  We can't afford the initial expense of getting solar panels installed, so you were the best person to ask.

RRBud said:

We need to develop fusion power plants!

Preach!

So, you've shut down your coal mines?