Sun dependant renewables only work when the sun shines, stupid! Cannot get below 5 cents PKWH And that outcome depends on acres of solar panels/solar thermal solutions!

If you want either of those to be available 24/7 then one needs pumped hydro or batteries, meaning a ripping price hike! Or power at cost at least 15 cents PKWH.

By the time one adds in transmission and distribution reticulation. That number could become 30 cents PKWH and the last of manufacture here, heading for the exits! And that would be a very clever outcome, wouldn't it, stupid!?

Currently, coal-fired power is price gouged beyond belief and within the acquiescence and knowledge of conflicted parliaments and or doggy pollies?

And that can only be changed by a transition to locally-owned and operated, nuclear power co-ops! Guys like twiggy need to get involved, if only to ensure the above outcome!

We cannot wait for puppet governments to do anything real in this area? There'll be this or that review and inquiries of enquiries that then spend decades in pigeon holes?
Alan B.

It is even worse than all that Alan.
When people demonstate how impossible it is to keep the power on with
wind and solar they trot out the batteries.
They never take in just when and how you recharge them.
So a cold still night and you enter the next sunrise with flat batteries.
You need a minimum of half a days power to recharge.
You can only get it from solar and wind of the same capacity as you
are using that day !
So, a complete new installation with capacity equal to grid demand !
We just doubled the cost of wind and solar.
Unfortunately the next day could be still and overcast so we really
need a twice as big battery and a charging system twice that of the
grid design. errr what if there is two weeks of wind drought al la Europe ?
We need a BLOODY big battery ! (& money printer)
All this before we start charging our electric cars at night, argghh

Oh this bloke is a shocker.

This Bachelor of Arts graduate who went straight to Canberra after university to work for the Productivity Commission as a public servant for 10 years before becoming a staffer for Barnaby Joyce.

Yet he parades around with a coal stained face dressed in fluro workwear. Just look at his Twitter profile picture.

http://twitter.com/mattjcan

Much of his article is just as fake. He attributes “huge lines at petrol stations” on renewable energy policies but it is only occurring in the UK as a direct result of Brexit causing a shortage of drivers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/world/europe/why-uk-fuel-shortage.html

He is one big bag of wind, a fake, given a platform in the Murdoch press, and the usual useful idiots on OLO are lapping it all up.

Pathetic.

Scott Morrison has told the Liberal Party room - and therefore the rest of us as long as he is Prime Minister - that there is “no choice” for Australia in the madness of net zero emissions by 2050.

What? No choice in a sovereign democracy? No debate in a democracy? How about putting it to the Australian people: the ones who will be paying the price, not the political class, Big Business, the UN, the OECD, the IMF, and Australia’s own Reserve Bank; and the Business Council of Australia, which two years ago ranted against Labor’s 45% reduction as “economy wrecking”, but who are now demanding a 50% reduction by 2030!

Like other Western political leaders, Morrison seems to be marching to the drum of the globalists and the build back better, great resetting bullies and organisations that will be least effected by the mania for changing the world, and Australia, beyond recognition.

We should all be alarmed that our Prime Minister can think, let alone say, that there is no choice in a democracy. That there will be no debate in a democracy. That Australlans will have no say in their future. That they will not even be asked what they they think, even after he, Morrison, was only returned to his $500,000 job when they, ordinary Australians, rejected Labor’s policies. Our new ‘worst prime minister ever’ is now in agreement with Labor, and intending to do what they would have done had they not been rejected.

David Flint says it the way it is:

"Having won an election denouncing net zero, media cover will enable Scott Morrison to deliver a bipartisan sell-out to Beijing. Whenever a media pack forms, rational debate goes out the window."

I read this morning of a solar farm's output overwhelmed the grid? This is the problem, stupid, with the sun! It's daylight only solution! And will need batteries to soak up excess supply and then trickle it back out at night! And Bazz is correct in assuming this will treble the price of solar,i.e., it's the sun, stupid!

On the insider program, his morning, was the NSW treasurer claiming that we would need at least fifteen years to train a workforce capable of running nuclear power, That it was more expensive than renewables, and a long way off, etc-etc.

Well, historically, naval ratings needed only 3 months of additional training and a comprehensive user manual to run the ship's nuclear reactor?

And history shows SMRs can be churned out using a known design in just 12 short months! And that's conventional nuclear power!

So, the NSW treasurer/environment minister needs to start speaking from a lot higher up to be credible! Risible rhetoric is no substitute for facts!

The 7 nats that want the current, self-imposed embargo on nuclear power lifted, need to stick to their guns! And cross the floor on other issues until or unless they get their way, or force the government to an early election?

And given they do, will represent the majority view of the majority (57%) of Australians! All while wedging labor, who need anti-nuclear green preferences to win!
Alan B.