Australia Not So Sunny for Solar
Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, November 19th, 2008 - under News.
Tags: Energy
IN a body blow for Australia’s solar industry, the nation’s biggest solar-panel factory will close early next year. Read more here.
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Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, November 19th, 2008 - under News.
Tags: Energy
IN a body blow for Australia’s solar industry, the nation’s biggest solar-panel factory will close early next year. Read more here.
“Germany, with the world’s largest solar-panel industry, cut its emissions by 18 per cent.”
Ummm, absorbing a decrepit Soviet nation and closing down all its emission spewing, 50’s style factories might help also. But let’s pretend its all about the solar panels.
Erm…Soviets might object to that bright idea…