The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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Its human nature.....but more so, its aussie culture.

'She'll be right'.......until its not.

Because they are struggling to make ends meet people are already making choices between food, heating, cooling, medical and socialising. If we get a heatwave and rolling blackouts it's a huge threat, especially if it's unpredicted and not managed, like a severe storm at just the wrong time.

Too many of the elderly already sit in front of electric fans without air conditioners or heaters, the power goes the fans stop, but the money they didn't have to spend on energy is lost anyway because the fridge and the freezer stop as well, the consequences are catastrophic to those who can least afford it.

The do-gooders will have you believe the price of renewables is just an inconvenience for a hot day or two, but far from it, it's not a price we have to pay and we don't have to punish societies most vulnerable for the sins or ignorance of the past. We can reduce CO2, and we do not have to do it through renewables.

As NSW and Vic shutdown the coal and gas, will residents there turn off the lights to keep SA safe and cool?

I read articles recently that pumped up SA and Tas as landmark examples of energy production, 90% of "SA produced energy" was from renewables, Tas was at 71% of it's "produced energy" being renewable, the problem is over the analysis period they consumed about 250% of what they produced, the balance to keep the lights on came via Vic or NSW from gas(And I assume some coal but I'm sure there is creative accounting!), there are stats and then there are stats!

Finally, the world doesn't care about us, we only become an example when they want us to be, we are a blip on the ocean, barely registering. Yet security wise the USA and UK know exactly what is at stake. Outside of China, Australia is the game for long term resources for energy and rare earths, unless of course we allow Brazil to scrape the Amazon bare of life. China in the meantime is playing dirty, we apparently use child indigenous labour to dig up our rare earths, and pollute and destroy the Great Barrier Reef with the tailings. Of course nobody in power believes it, but that doesn't matter because it is what voters believe that counts. Before long, there be more deals like Dan's Belt and Road, you can see it coming!