For goodness sake pursue your sport of choice or see your local course flogged off.

Non-sporting global warmists, with their frenzied ideologically-driven efforts to save the planet from overheating by an estimated 1.8 degrees within the next century, may soon be seeking out your local course to cover with solar panels.

The views of PM Tony "stop the windmills" Abbott notwithstanding.

Or even Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's wary over-the-shoulder glances at the Greens and their vote-winning super-apocalyptic forecasts that we are all doomed unless we live in grass huts and eat tofu. (Everyone, of course, except wealthy and hip Greens'-voting latte-sipping inner-city dwellers).

The matter of the desirability of undulating golf courses being suitable places for renewable energy, including solar panels and windmills, came to mind while motoring past a golf course but a swallow's flight from Launceston.

This correspondent can report that not a single flogger or putter was in sight on the dewy and undulating country grass tees.

And so we feel we must draw the attention of golf players, the game termed by Mark Twain as "a good walk spoiled", that the Japanese have identified surplus golf courses as great places for solar panels.

Apparently, the golf-mad Nipponese have over the past three decades been far too enthusiastic in course building and now have too many greens spread throughout the archipelago.

Judged by satellite photographic evidence, it seems that golf courses are now prime candidates for a "make over" to assist treehuggers' dream of saving the planet by harnessing the sun's power.

"Participation in the sport (golf) in Japan is down by about 40 per cent from the 1980s," London's Independent newspaper reports.

The paper notes that "the 2000s have led to hundreds of idle courses" with the snide add-on comment that "they (courses) are environmentally dubious projects anyway."

This now sees Kyoto Prefecture initiating a 26 megawatt solar power plant generating power for a mere 8100 homes.

Another ginormous Japanese golf course project will cover "two million square metres" with 340,000 solar modules to provide power for (what!) just 30,500 houses.

Gracious us, but if Tasmania is to realise the environmentalists' uncosted and weather-sensitive dream of totally renewable power sources the entire state will be covered with solar panels.

There will be so many panels the state will look something like one of those revolving glittering balls that once were hung from 1920s dance hall ceilings.

On the plus side, leaving little space for bloody big wind turbines.

Mind you, any renewables' target means we all must also play our part.

Can it only be a matter of time before we are all required to wear solar panels about our persons?

Solar panel hats (worn at a rakish angle but always pointing north) may become compulsory and even shoe caps will be wired to "power up" mobile phones on the run.

Every citizen will eventually be responsible for his, or her, own power generation and usage.

The coal and hydro-powered grid will only be available for major industries — if there are any left should the Greens realise their ambition of a return to the Stone Age.

Surplus personal power will be fed back into the grid on one's arrival back home as soon as boffins design a special wall socket that we can stick a finger in to release surplus electricity back into the system.

Oh brave new, solar-panelled, world.