Phillip S

Very interesting. The most compact and comprehensive account of the disaster renewable energy has become. Thank you!

Get Bradfield schemes up & running asap to take the pressure off the coast & make the arid interior habitable with rail lines to match. Forget about Long Haul trucking, they could be put on the railway & taken to where they & their cargo are needed. Save time, fuel & emission.
It would be a multiple plus for any Government that has the gonads to tell the Greens to go back to school & let people who know plan the implementing of the schemes. People who live in those areas must be involved not those insipids with their BA from the suburbs. Add to this a national service & before you can finish your baked beans on toast, we'd have an Australia full of go & purpose.
Several 100,000+ towns could be settled around Lake Eyre alone if the water level remained steady. Same goes for around Lake Argyle & there are literally hundreds of places similarly suitable. All it requires is common sense & patient investors not those who want their profits on the same day the schemes start.
In a word, Australians need to wake up, shake off the dreadful policies that hold us back presently & curb their selfishness. There is so much employment & quality of life just waiting for Australians to change by listening to people who know.

An important issue like this one & only a handful of concerned citizens bothered to contribute is a very sad indictment indeed on the priorities of people living in this Nation.
Perhaps the author should have included Sport & Pop music to entice more people to become concerned ?