Re: 12 Innovative Solar techs.
Where's our Satis being groped pic?
And Derf, it's the same here. In the name of 'crisis' and 'the markets' (whoever the fuck they are) the government has done the exact same thing over here and massively cut into tax refunds for people and companies who want to install solar panels and installations.
Also, any ecology tax cut on efficient cars has disappeared into thin air. Gotta love politicians and their great long-term views. A few years ago, one of our governments found an ingenious way to even out the budget for that year: it sold government buildings to third parties and rented them back, a so-called 'sale-and-rent-back' operation. Neeless to say this is a hefty short-term income with horrible long-term costs, ideal to 'create' money to even out a budget.
I was talking to a friend yesterday and I told him "Why doesn't anyone seem to realize how insane that really is? How utterly criminal? Imagine your boss called you in and told you 'Phillip, I got a great idea to raise our yearly income: we sell our buildings and rent them back from the new owner! Brilliant!' You'd fall out of your chair. You'd think he'd gone crazy. But that is the reality of what happened there."
I should move to Germany, which not only is entirely self-sufficient in its energy supply (very much unlike Belgium), but does so with a continued and aggressive policy on renewable energy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_ ... in_Germany