Unfortunately a lot of these climate change extremists don't...

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    Unfortunately a lot of these climate change extremists don't understand that trees are cut down to provide the resource for providing the silicon to make the solar panels. These climate change extremists also don't comprehend that it takes 15,000 kWh of power to produce one tonne of silicon.
    These climate change fanatics think that the solar panels just pop up in the shop and that it takes nothing to make them.
    How many of these climate change extremists would be buying solar panels if the Government didn't subsidize the cost of purchase and the production of power.
    If the Government only paid the actual cost of production and no subsidies were given I'd doubt whether they'd be a single solar panel installation if our power bills were AUD$0.03/kWh instead of AUD$0.30/kWh. Other countries are producing power at AUD$0.03/kWh but they aren't using windmills or solar panels.
    China's power cost is about AUD$0.07/kWh using a combination of coal/nuclear/hydro and renewables.

    China's use of coal fired power for generation of electricity has gone from 13% in 2015 to 50% in 2019.

    "In 2019, the coal power market's share of electricity increased from 13% in 2015 to about 50%. "

    "(1) Electricity demand and installed capacity will continue to increase, but the growth rate will slow down, and the high proportion of new energy allocation features will be obvious. State Grid Research Institute predicts that the average annual growth rate of electricity consumption in the whole society is 4-5%. This is lower than the growth rate of 13% during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, 11.1% during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, and 6.27% during the Twelfth Five-year Plan period. The CEC predicts that the development of clean energy will enter an accelerated period. By 2025, the country ’s installed power generation capacity will be 2.8 billion kilowatts, and non-fossil energy installed capacity will account for 48%. Ensuring new energy consumption and grid stability is still a problem."
 
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