The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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There is quite a lot of irony surfacing in Green Energy / No Carbon / Low Carbon circles these days, intentions get exposed.

Major renewable groups are starting to realise the folly of putting all the eggs into one basket, and the futility of replacing mining for coal or oil with mining for rare earths and lithium, ultimate we can't survive on the difference.

I sat through an online seminar recently on geothermal, which was followed up by a Q&A session. Inevitably that spawned a series of media articles that have appeared on various websites, podcasts and forums. It's not lost on me that many of the geothermal naysayers turn out to be advocates for the Solar PV industry, people that masquerade as being about saving the planet, but that have actions suggesting they are about saving a bank balance!

It's even more ironic for people in Victoria, as coal shuts down Victoria is pretty much completely ignoring Australia's best geothermal sources right under the very coal deposits they no longer wish to mine. Base load energy that would have avoided the coming summer blackouts and excess heat deaths. Instead more solar, and more batteries, with more mines I expect to dig up and supply the raw materials!