Quote Originally Posted by AHLUNGOR View Post
I think the real threat is our energy cost as that alone will impact on Everyone and Everything!

Origin is shutting down its largest coal power station which supplies 25% of its output. The replacement “batteries “ only run for two hours ? And what are they gonna to use to re charge these batteries??

Australia has ample supply of coal and natural gas and yet our energy cost is amount the highest in the developed world , why ?

Mismanagement or equipment and plants too old and lack efficiency? I don’t know the answers but higher energy cost is definitely coming, and spare a thought for those low income families who will have to choose between food on the table vs keeping the home warm in winter ?
Our energy costs are so high because we are desperately trying to appease the Climate God. It’s because of the subsidies we provide to windmill and solar panel owners. Renewables can only ever be viable if they are pumped up with tax payers money. The economics don’t stack up otherwise. I worked in this sector for a while.

The only ones getting rich from this scam are the investment banks which promote these schemes (like Macquarie), investors in renewables (the Chardonnay socialists like Turnbull, Holmes a Court, Cannon-Brookes etc), land owners who lease out to the energy producers, the constructors, the operators who usually have a 20-30 year supply contract and the Chinese companies which provide the windmills and PV panels. The average family suffers. The poor can’t keep warm in winter. All our manufacturing jobs go to China and India because they have cheap, coal fired electricity there.

The funny thing is that all the volcano eruptions in 2021 would have wiped out all the climate change progress for the past 10 years. Yet no one mentions this! It’s crazy and arrogant to think that we can somehow change the world’s temperature by driving electric cars,
drinking almond milk or by switching to windmill power.