It is illegal to build new nuclear plants in 14 states because jimmy carter irrationally prevented spent fuel rod recycling and idiotic environmentalists protested against yucca mountain.

Ever see Carter's solar energy field?

Yeah. Chernobyl is overrated in terms of effect. People can move there now and nothing will happen to them. It’s retarded.

On the White House?

Nah, on his ranch

Is it larger than Obama’s Mary Jane rose garden?

No. I haven’t.

I'll put it this way, it would have been a much better use for farm land. Plus, solar panels are non-recyclable so for something to take up that much land in the name of environmentalism and in turn not be environmental in the slightest is a bit irritating to say the least

I want to put some on my roof.

I think they can be recycled.

Its just sliced silicon wafers to some extent

I have some on my roof

But it’s nowhere near viable enough to supply my house with power all-year round

Cool. Solar is pretty cheap in Australia

And that’s me living in what is possibly one of the greatest patches of _lol wasteland desert_ in the world

Only because of subsidies

Otherwise it’s a cost hardly anyone would want to bear

Most people have solar panels on a mortgage-like payment plan lmao

If not specifically part of their mortgage

The idea that it’s dirt cheap without some (rather large) government support is misleading at best

I’ve read that Australia gets rooftop solar at around 1.20 a watt

No subsidies

Ok. I read up on it. It was only recently that they finally made them recyclable but they are highly complex to since they are made of a ton of different types of materials

@Salacious Swanky Cat so how would you get the solar panels up there in the first place?

Because those things are _fucking expensive_

Prohibitively so

You just kind of throw them up there. The key is that you have to put your body behind it

Be sure that you stick some chewed gum on the back so it sticks once it gets up there

Well, I’d either do it myself or see if I can get it done when I replace my roof.

Lol. There is a company that makes peel and stick panels.

solar was actually costing Germany a pretty penny last year. They had so much excess energy their companies had to pay people to use it

I could install the whole system in an afternoon with those.

@Salacious Swanky Cat the thing is, different localities, different costs, I guess

But a decent solar panel for a house here costs somewhere around AU $5k

Now with the cost of living here, it’s... _yeaaaaahhhhhhh_..... bit difficult to find $5k just lying around somewhere

I understand. It’s something you have to look at over a period of time for the investment. You guys still get it for cheaper than us.

Without subsidies

There are probably ways it can get cheaper (by using peel and stick panels maybe).

Maybe

But as I said in the other channel, I wouldn’t be surprised if without the scheme there would be far lesser amounts of people wanting solar panels

They’re not popular as it is even with them lol