Re: [Biofuel] Black Tuesday in Japan

2010-09-15 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Joe Sorry, I don't know the subsidy rate in Japan offhand. I'll browse around on my hard disk a bit, but not today. But I think you're right, not very heavily subsidised. All best Keith I understood that Japan didn't subsidize that heavily at least not compared to north american

Re: [Biofuel] Black Tuesday in Japan

2010-09-15 Thread Keith Addison
Oskar The puzzle is easy to solve - you are confusing completely different forms of solar energy: I don't agree, I think it's you who did that. I talked of passive solar water heaters, you added thermal, which didn't add much, IMHO, then quoted very low figures, which I disagree with, and

Re: [Biofuel] Black Tuesday in Japan

2010-09-15 Thread Oskar Bartenstein
Right, at present the feed-in tariff is not so important. The attractive subsidy for photovoltaics in Japan is for the purchased device, not for the generated electricity. For Tokyo residents, it is JPY100.000 per installed kWp from the Tokyo Metropolitan (local) budget PLUS JPY70.000 per kWp

Re: [Biofuel] Japan's mighty whale mountain

2010-09-15 Thread Matiss Lazdins
national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. Lewis Mumfordhttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/l/lewismumfo104881.html -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20100915/05df6454/attachment.html