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Dust on a solar panel will reduce its efficiency by up to 50%.

In the brave green Australia of 2020, just a decade away, Canberra has mandated that about half the Simpson desert will be covered in solar panels.

Have they allowed for the army of cleaners and the giga-litres of water that will be needed to clean the panels after every dust storm?

Maybe this where the Green jobs are coming from, and where the Cubbie Station water is going to?

In northern North America, what are the logistics of keeping solar panels free of snow?

Forecast: A cooling trend on climate change

The United Nations is pulling out the “big guns” in an attempt to create a climate of urgency about climate change so that the meeting of over one hundred world leaders in Copenhagen some 75 days from now can produce an agreement to replace to failed Kyoto accord.

Nature, however, is not co-operating.