[LINK] Tony pulls it off!

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:00 AM 2/12/2009, Marghanita da Cruz you wrote:

>However, the energy source is still Coal
>polluting power stations and if you ever
>look at your energy bill you will notice
>that the service fee usually outweighs
>the usage fee. So, as a consumer you
>have very little influence on the Power
>Generators to change their ways.

Yes, same with most utilities. The actual price of the 'goods' is 
negligible. They have a sunk cost for infrastructure delivery that 
will eventually be paid off to the company, but we'll continue to pay 
until doomsday. One wonders where the impost is going to be for the 
consumer with an ETS. Wanna take a guess?

>The Sydney Desalination plant is an
>interesting case study - that I have not
>come to a position on. Desalination is
>very energy expensive - so, they built a
>Wind Power Farm outside Bungendore to
>generate the power needed to produce water.

Yeah, same in Victoria. Pity you can't burn salt. Or have they not 
considered that?

But the image made me laugh. We have complimentary agriculture, where 
you run sheep along with grain on property. This may be the 
technological version -- co-locating energy production alongside 
water recovery, still relying on nature, or transforming nature to 
achieve a life-sustaining requirement: water.

Jan



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