Well, I am afraid that we have reached a point of no return.
It is too late to continue the renewable nonsense as a crash in our
economy now seems certain. Too much has been wasted on an electrical
system that cannot work.
The nutters that voted the money to build it will never admit that
they got it wrong and will send us all broke spending $Trillions on
batteries trying to make it work.
If we manage to get a new government that accepts we must just cut
our losses and start again we could, if the closing power stations are
kept instead of being blown up, then build some new coal power
stations as the queue to get new modular nuclear stations will be
decades long.
I think the exit of the aluminium refiners is now certain unless
everyone agrees to have power cuts to keep them on line.

I cannot see how we can avoid an economic crash and the migrant intake
must be reduced to zero. We cannot afford their unemployment benefits.

Nuclear power can be reticulated for 3 cents or less to all users. As MSR ten thorium or as MSR nuclear waste-burners, burning fuel we are paid to take.

And given we did the latter, become a manufacturing superpower inside a decade that could burn all competition.

And be able to defend ourselves against all comers, thanks to a robust manufacturing sector that'll be without peer!

Never going to happen with coal or gas and power prices likely to exceed 50 cents PKWH.

And intermittent battery backed renewables, even more expensive, if they have enough battery capacity to match coal or gas!
Alan B.

The Treasurer is now telling us how it will be in 2063, when most of them won't be around. Albanese himself would be 100.

This is pretty cheeky, given that they can't deal with the here and now.

The population is predicted to be 40 million by then. So the immigration Ponzi scheme - people at the bottom of the pyramid paying for the few at the top - will continue.

The BS about the environment and poor old carbon dioxide gets more hypocritical all the time. And the economy will still be in deficit in 40 years time.

Business commentator, Terry McCann, deems the 'intergenerational report' to be "analytical idiocy", and who knows where the country will be in 40 years time. Nowhere if this net zero rubbish is not dropped, and we don't go back to using the cheap, available natural resources we are blessed with.

The Albanese government is on life support now, according to McCann.

The price of everything is skyrocketing under Albanese; and he has shown no indication that he will - or can - do a thing about it: the latest sign being his continued rewarding of Qantas for that company's support for of the Voice (and son's entreè to the posh people's lounge?) by refusing to allow the fare-reducing increase of Qatar flights.

The man is so obvious! This one has to be seen as intentional, just like his priority to rapidly reduce emissions reductions (of useful carbon dioxide) by jacking up the price of electricity.

Pollies waffle on about international circumstances they have no control over. But rub their hands with glee over energy prices that gives them a budget surplus they will claim was due to their superior management. A fool's paradise and stupidity personified!

If we had much cheaper energy, everything else would be cheaper with adequate competition.

Cheap energy would make rapid rail viable, and a 3-mile-wide corridor that could be mostly rezoned as urban then sold as such, would all but pay for the project and solve the housing crisis in one fowl swoop.

And here I'm thinking 900 klms per hour VLT. That would beat the pants off aviation! And serve the nation for possibly several centuries.

Or, until the solid-state, carbon free, Goulding star drive, makes air travel king once more.
Alan B,

The recent announcement that the government is going to pay the coal
fired stations to be on standby for when the renewables die each
sunset and the sea breeze dies until the land breeze picks up, is an
admission of failure.
So the renewable will get paid just for being there and at the same
time the coal & gas stations will be paid to be waiting in the wings.
We taxpayers are real STUPID !
Knowing how STUPID they were over blowing up the coal stations before
the replacement was installed, we now double up on subsidies !
I would like to see someone calculate how much extra tax we pay each
for these payments. Then we can add our bills on and see what the
dollars per Kw/hr come to.
It will be a lot more than $275 !