AboutAllan Yeomans Expertise All aspects except details on specific or local areas. No questions labeled "private" will be answered.auclear
Experience Author of PRIORITY ONE Together We can Beat Global Warming. Published as paper-back in US and hard-cover in Australia.
Agricultural consultant both in Australia and the US.
Aviation meteorologist and lecturer.
Organizations American Association for the Advancement of Science
Australian Gliding Association
Publications Various agricultural magazines and newspapers.
Education/Credentials No degree, but post graduate work on nuclear physics and early computer designs at Dept of Physics, University of Sydney.
Numerous lectures and presentations at colleges both in Australia and the US.
Awards and Honors Several agricultural design awards at the Australian National Agricultural Field Days.
Winner Queensland Gold Coast City 2001 Innovation Design Award
Question Do you think houses should generate their own energy and possibly return excess energy back to the grid?
Do you see a need for this?
why shoud we be doing this?
What problems do you see with this?
Answer The whole concept is ridiculously. There is no way we can generate power in our homes that is in any way competitive with commercially produced power. For example people put in solar panel “farms” in Germany and the government buys the power for about 50 cents a kilowatt hour. Then the same government sells the power to others at about 20 cents a kilowatt hour. Dumb German tax payers make up the difference and the green movement claims it’s all wonderful. Coal and nuclear power costs about three cents a kilowatt hour to generate.
Wind energy is at least not too much dearer than coal or gas. But for industrial power requirements, nuclear energy is our only safe and sensible option. Of course in Canada you have huge hydro-electric resources but Canada is uniquely blessed in this regard.
The fossil fuel funded environmentalists will continue to try and halt any expansion in your super-clean Canadian hydro industry. They will continue to argue that some butterfly living in Hudson Bay is more important to the world that the total and irreversible destruction of the stability of all our Earth’s weather and climate systems. Don’t be fooled.
