The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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Now come on, K, tell me you didn't write this with a wry grin, tongue in cheek and a wink of the eye. Quoting Clarkson, a self-confessed boofhead, as an environmental guru is a stretch.

In fairness to Clarkson, he might well be a boofhead, but he isn't a fool either. What he mostly rallies against is the public being conned by the very economic forces you discuss, and personally it aligns with much of my own perspective. What we here call green is somebody else's choking mess.

Our Australian version of green is very NIMBY, we offload the filthy aspects to China, Taiwan, India, Malyasia or Vietnam, etc, etc.. Then we sit here watching the 6 O'Clock news tut tutting at the smog and pollution in Asian cities, on our sparkling dazzling freshly solar powered big screen TV's while our EV gets a load of juice, all from the solar panels, extrusions, controllers, inverters and cabling delivered to us via the smog inducing mills in the very same countries we wag our finger at.

As for the geopolitical situation, we buy Subs to keep "the enemy" at bay, in the meantime we sell them cheap coal by the ship load to keep them running (making solar panels and TVs for us to buy) while they build nuclear power stations to set them free of that market dependency, while our own politicians count the short term cash and do nothing for the future.

You would think if the place that makes the bulk of the solar panels, and can by definition install them cheaper than any other location in the world, would find them to be so cost effective that building trillion$ of nuclear power stations would be redundant, ...................... and yet! Because here, solar is "So cost effective" that nothing can compete, apparently we have billionaires here preparing to clad the top end with SolarPV and power SE Asia, yet there were they make the stuff they build nuclear, .............. something seems NQR!