Ahhh, politicians you gotta love them. It seems just recently Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard, has went back on her campaign promises and retracted solar energy funding for projects throughout the country. This is a sad state of affairs for several reasons. For one she is taking money out of an industry that is achieving vital growth. This is a real blow to the Australians who voted her into office expecting to see real action in the renewable energy industry. A lot of people are wanting and needing these jobs. Not to mention the people investing in renewable energy technologies.
Look here’s the deal, is solar the cheapest energy generation out their at the moment? No, of course not, now why not ask yourself why? Here’s a big part of the reason. The more technology improves the cheaper solar power will be, the more solar power projects going on throughout the world the faster the technology is developed, the faster the technology is developed the cheaper solar power will be, not to mention the solar energy efficiency it will create. This is a cyclic event that takes place in any burgeoning and new technical industry.
Taking money away from the solar and wind energy industry is not going to do anyone any good, we have a lot of work ahead of us to make solar the viable vision it can and will be. Solar is an abundant form of renewable energy, it is clean, ever present, and it can create huge amounts of green jobs and revenue in the world market.
China’s solar industry has just made major profits, so why are we not, because China was smart enough to see the trend starting and leaped at the chance to start with there solar industry, they are ahead of us and a world leader, this is where America needs to be, I remember when our industry’s were the best, and our schools were the best. We should not be accepting of second or third prize we need to grab the bull by the horns and get back to what made this country great. Research and development, and the guts to go ahead with the plan. We need solar energy, it’s easy to see, yes we have made strides with several large scale projects. But in order to remain the world leader that we are and have been we need to go full throttle into the age of energy.
