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The timing makes me suspect that this is largely intended to quiet protests against the restart of the reactors, - And politically, the reactors have to be restarted - Summer heatwaves would kill the grid and/or the elderly without them, and the cost of running the natural gas facilities as much as Japan has been doing lately is eyewatering.
LOL, you can't stop making thing up. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
.. Actually, nevermind whether it will work, paying double the german rate is just bugfuck insane. Germany is reducing that rate because the price of cells has come down, and the solar resource in Japan is rather better than the german one, just due to latitude, so the tarrif level set by the japanses is flatout a license for anyone that happens to own a roof to drain the coffers of the utilities and by extension everyone that doesnt own a roof. Massive social injustice, and fairly likely to get repealed and discredit green energy entirely in the minds of really large segments of japanese society.
Green cannot be a synonym for "the rich screw the poor" if it is to be in any way politically sustainable.
I won't even comment your social justice concern trolling, but I note as below that the (temporary) high rates have an explicit justification to jump-start big investment, which after all is a core aim of any feed-in law. (The problem is rather that they might choose to collapse the market again with the later rate cuts.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Hmm. I predict a very good year for solar cell industry. Not so sure about 2014, tough.
While eurogreen does the job to dismantle the class hypothesis, let me just note that the above is like a definition of concern trolling: talk up a nonexistent public concern. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I think that the concerns that Thomas is bringing up are sincere, and that it's unfortunate that you're implying otherwise.
I understand your concerns, it's just that I think you're waltzing near the fallacy that any investment in any type of renewable energy ever is going to be economically efficient, at least in terms of the effect on consumer electric prices.
There is an economic case for renewable electricity, however arguing that it always exists, no matter the circumstances, provides fodder for those who argue that it never can exist.
Peace. Out. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
Deeming an argument concern trolling is not a personal attack but an attack of the argument, and I stand by it.
any investment in any type of renewable energy ever is going to be economically efficient
So should you, because if ever the public gets the idea into its head that "green" means "fuck the poor" the cause of sustainability will suffer immense damage.
pretzel logic...
the utilities, in connivance with energy -especially oil/nukes- companies, and complicit, well-rewarded politicians have been fucking the poor six ways from sunday for decades with enron scam level and worse money games, ridiculous tax breaks for the screwers and multiple rate and bill increases, suppression of clean energy source harvesting, pollution and war for the screwed.
orwell award! 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
Actually you could surmise the opposite: the timing of the repeatedly postponed decision on the first reactor re-starts may have been set for the same date to fig-leaf it with the adoption of the feed-in law, the 1 July 2012 start date of which was decided way back: Naoto Kan's cabinet approved it hours before the 11 March 2011 earthquake/tsunami and Japan's parliament on 28 August the same year. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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