The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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And that's one of the reasons why the CSIRO has to be even-handed, although it's generally the Coalition that cuts their funding more heavily.

You do realise that CSIRO future funding depends on commercialisation of the SolarPV and Printable Electronics technologies they have developed? They may just have a tad  of a vested interest, as does AEMO. Remember that AEMO is Gas as well as Electricity, and it's very wrong for the public to assume the Gas or Coal part of big business is aligned with Nuclear, and Bill Gates didn't do it!

The full 130 page GenCost report is freely available to download and read, many of the technology assumptions and data restrictions that are put in place is interesting to say the least, especially given AEMO being a partner.

I have no reasons to question the conclusions based on the data provided and analysed, they are valid, but as we've written elsewhere garbage in equals garbage out. Not that the data in is garbage, but it's selected data and that selection / rejection process might not be so objective.

For example, you'll notice that households are so insignificant that in many segments of the analysis they are disregarded entirely. That's because as I've pointed out all the houses in the land add up to little more than 10%, yet to go 100% carbon zero off-grid using SolarPV would cost about $250B retail. That's horrendous costs for only 10% of the marketplace, about $10,000 per person at current market rates, yet you won't find it in the GenCost report.