Talk:Solar power in Australia
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[edit] New Solar power in Australia Page
This page is a sister page to the Wind power in Australia page. It is modelled on that page. The purpose of the page is to provide a record of all solar power projects in Australia, irresepctive of status, sponsor or locality. The page is presently a stu in the Australia - stubs category.
[edit] NPOV
This article does not give a balanced view of Solar power and offers no criticism.
The principle of Neutral Point of View requires that we describe competing views without endorsing any one in particular. This is clearly not happening here, or elsewhere as discussed in the section above.
So I'm adding a POV tag to the article. Prester John 03:10, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- what reliably sourced criticism do you suggest? Or should we just make some up to find a 'competing view'? Ie, if you put in a tag, you need to identify a problem and a way, at least towards, fixing it. Merbabu 05:33, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
No need to make anything up, there is plenty of referenced criticism which address the shortcomings of solar power. The prohibitive cost of household installations itself, deserves a section, other sub-sections on the economics of pricing, and if in fact the government has a right to impose itself upon the free market is another. In time I will lead the charge in bringing balance to the article, which at the moment is just one sided greenist propaganda. Prester John -(Talk to the Hand) 05:47, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- Well, if in the name of 'balance' you talk about the market, no doubt you will bring in discussion of market failure, particularly in regard to externalities. Merbabu 09:42, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- PS, keep in mind that this is an Australia-specific article. It sounds like your planned criticism is much more general and more suited to Solar power. Please focus on Australia. Merbabu 09:54, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Draw the line
I like the idea of having a table with project status and dates but this should be restricted to projects with a size of greater than (e.g) 30kWp. There is NO point whatsoever of including stuff like 3kW, 4kw, 6kW systems in the table. I know people with residential systems larger than 3kW, should we put them in the table too? I propose to remove all entries under at least 20kW, unless there is something incredibly special about the specific system that is worth mentioning. By the way there is a '42kWp system' (actual peak output is about 35kW) at UNSW, that may be worth including. 211.31.39.123 (talk) 14:08, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
