Good morning Anna,

Thankyou for this important comment about a valid point I had not
considered.

Do you have views on the use of solar modules on every suburban rooftop?

The advantages are enormous and include (a) No line loss (b) No street
wiring (c) No maintainance (d) Very long life (e) No moving parts (f)
Total silence (g) No danger to any creatures.

Tending to offset these major advantages is the cost of production and
the environmental damage in the production process.

I wish Australia would take the lead in all this.

Regards,

Peter Bright
Kingston




--- In ClimateChangeAction@..., "A Sternfeldt"
<anna@...> wrote:
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> Hi John, Peter and all others.
> I just want to give my agreements in this discussion, adding that most
> people have windows in their houses, and how many birds do fly into the
> glasses and get killed? Or badly hurted? Just a comment...
> Anna Sternfeldt
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> Hi John,
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> My golly, you've put this SO well!
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> Them's my own thoughts too, but I could not have put them better than
> you have below.
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> I'm one who values all life except flies, but I even feel guilty
> spraying them horrible little critters because I can imagine myself in
> their position.
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> If we decide against wind power then we are left with photovoltaics.
> These marvellous (but as yet far too expensive) modules just sit there
> injuring no creature. Mind you, it's a bit the other way around
> actually - when birds poop on them.
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> I yearn for the greater developments of photovoltaics and wish
> Australia would take the lead in this so efficiently that we become
> suppliers to the world.
>
> Peter Bright
> tasmania
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> --- In ClimateChangeAction@..., "John Hill"
> <wynhill@> wrote:
> Dear Anne:
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> A lesser evil is still an evil but it is, as we know, a lesser evil
> and, therefore, unless we have better alternatives, and we are forced
> to make a choice, the lesser evil is the way to go.
>
> Coal, nuclear, and oil-fired power plants all kill far more than the
> occasional bird.
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> This is not to say we shouldn't think hard about how to make them
> windmills less likely to kill birds. Apparently, the new ones have
> slower-moving blades which are likely to cause less trouble and there
> are ways of making the blades more visible, and more visibly moving
> and dangerous, to scare birds off.
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> To live in this world it is impossible to not kill other creatures -
> the point is to keep it to a minimum and keep thinking about how to
> reduce the incidents still further.
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> John the Sinner Hill
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