Canberra dreams of reviving coal plants whilst more national solar wealth is about to be lost again

Robyn Williams: Well, of course you know that Martin Green and the University of New South Wales has held the world record for solar of the silicon type for a long time, and one of his ex-students, Zhengrong Shi, became the first billionaire in private industry in China. And he's doing well. But one wonders why it is that we have to have that kind of industry going from Australia as an idea and exploit it in China as an industry.
Tim Flannery: The University of New South Wales deserves some sort of Darwin award because at the same time they did all of that they also sold the patents to a solar hot water system which is now the most widely deployed solar hot water system in the world. There are billions of units out there. They sold the patents for $160,000 to a Chinese company, sold them, didn't even reserve 1% or a 10th of 1%, the university would have been like Harvard if they had done that, but jeez…and of course it was John Howard that shut down the solar stuff, because coal is the future, why should we worry about solar? - ABC the science show http://www.abc.net.au/radionational...rts-were-deeply-worried.-now-they-are/9727414

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