The Climate Cult is riddled with towering ignorance and deliberate deceit. One of the biggest deceits peddled by the cult is that of cost. Specifically, the cost of their demented ‘Net Zero’ lemming race. Simple back-of-the-envelope calculations soon show that the cost of stated goal of blanketing the countryside in solar panels and windmills in just a couple of decades is in the trillions.
The even bigger lie they tacitly sell is that that will be end of it.
In fact, like painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge, no sooner will their vast fields of glass and aluminium be built, than they’ll be ripping them up again and starting on new ones. That’s because solar panels and wind turbines have a strictly limited lifespan. Solar peddlers claim their lifespan is around 25 years. In the real world, that’s proving to be optimistic, to say the least: already, the wave of rooftop solar panels subsidised by taxpayer money in the last decade or so are already being ripped out.
Leaving behind a mountain of toxic landfill.
The industry is sounding the alarm, warning Australia is about to be hit with a tsunami of solar waste as more households take up batteries, thanks to the federal government's new subsidies.
Currently about four million homes across the nation have installed solar, equating to more than 150 million panels nationwide when commercial and large-scale systems are included.
Already, around four million solar panels a year are being ‘decommissioned’ (in plain language: dumped at the tip). That’s expected to double in the short term. Then grow even higher as existing systems are torn down for upgrades driven by the Albanese government’s taxpayer-subsidised batteries.
Batteries, by the way, that last even less time than the solar panels.
Of all those millions of panels going to the tip, only about 10 per cent are recycled.
The solar industry being the gang of crony grifters that it is, their first resort is to demand more taxpayer money to deal with the taxpayer-funded mountain of waste they’ve helped create.
The solar industry has been waiting since 2016 for a national product stewardship scheme – a mandatory system that would fund recycling through an up-front levy on imported or manufactured panels […]
Without government intervention, there is concern the sector could collapse under its own weight.
Without taxpayer money, they mean. Without tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money, we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place.
It’s not just an environmental problem – it’s an economic one.
For once, the ABC is telling the truth. Just not in the way they intended.
So, we’ve spent billions subsidising solar panels and we’re spending billions more subsidising batteries, and now we’re going to have to spend billions getting rid of them.
And it’ll start all over again in just a decade or so, to all intents and purposes forever.
Tell me this isn’t a government operation.
