There will be a great night out for renewable energy supporters at the Castlemaine Town Hall on Saturday 26th September. ‘An Evening with Tim Flannery’ will include dinner, a speech and Q&A by Professor Tim, live music and dancing. Tim was Australian of the Year in 2007 and author of the best-seller, ‘The Weather Makers’. We’re expecting to book out quickly: mash.org.au and from Tuesday 4 August, Castlemaine Central Wine Store, 36 Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine.
MASH2 registrations pass 200
Whilst registrations have come from a wide variety of sources, around 100 have come from the six information sessions we have run in and around Castlemaine in recent weeks. See the MASH website for more sessions coming up in Castlemaine and, at last, Kyneton.
Why more panels?
We’ve noticed that quite a few people are putting on bigger systems than financial considerations alone would dictate, like 5kW instead of the 3kW which would maximise the rate of return on the investment. The reason? Many people simply want to generate as much solar power as their roof area will allow. “So we can sock it to the government”, said one person at an info session.
Before his time
We have proved the commercial profit of sun power in the tropics and have more particularly proved that after our stores of oil and coal are exhausted the human race can receive unlimited power from the rays of the sun. One thing I feel sure of… is that the human race must finally utilize direct sun power or revert to barbarism.
This is a quote from the American inventor, Frank Shuman, in the NY Times on July 2nd 1916. Not long before that he’d invented the first solar engine based on reflecting sunlight onto black pipes filled with ether. See Wikipedia for more about Frank.
More solar news next week. In the meantime if you’d like to register for MASH2 or find out more, go to mash.org.au or phone 0455 589 065
