The reason all those con artist renewable energy spruikers are coming here is because of all the taxpayer subsidies still on offer, currently $7+ billion a year. Overseas they have been operating long enough to show people the reality and the subsidies have been heavily cut back.

Remember Max Green coming here with all the glossy brochure claims about how cheap and wonderful renewables were and how expensive and impossible nuclear was? He went on about pumped hydro for energy storage. Well Snowy 2.0 is a disaster, along with many other rusting pieces of junk that were touted as part of the renewable energy revolution a few years back.

The people promoting this nonsense need to be called out for the economic and environmental vandals that they are.

And this was Max's pet pumped hydro project, now abandoned because it is not economically viable, just like all the other renewable energy garbage being built here.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-26/wa-government-abandons-pumped-hydro-plans-south-west/103026522

Australia is an attractive turd for FOREIGN blowfly investors because of our stupid political class, with its big subsidies and rip-the-environment-to-bits attitude. The foreigners in their own countries can't get away with what they get away with here. They've been shunned in their own dunghill, and Hickstralia is a real goldmine for them.

In the meantime, there is plenty to "support" the lack of investment overseas, where people with the brains that Blackout Bowen hasn't got have woken up to reality.

WTF?

ttbn says: "In the meantime, there is plenty to "support" the lack of investment overseas"

This of course is wrong and just another example of ttbn's inability to accept factual information.

According to the International Energy Agency:
"About USD 2.8 trillion is set to be invested globally in energy in 2023, of which more than USD 1.7 trillion is expected to go to clean technologies – including renewables, electric vehicles, nuclear power, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency improvements and heat pumps."

If ttbn wants to argue that $US1.7 trillion in one year (and set to increase) amounts to a "lack of investment overseas" that I think that maybe only Indyvidual would agree with him.

"According to the International Energy Agency:
"About USD 2.8 trillion is set to be invested globally in energy in 2023, of which more than USD 1.7 trillion is expected to go to clean technologies – including renewables, electric vehicles, nuclear power, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency improvements and heat pumps.""

Yes, that's what gets all the chumps like Bowen jumping up and down with excitement. The pertinent question is "Will things go as planned?". There is mounting evidence that renewable energy is not living up to expectations. Ironically, the best low carbon option is nuclear, but it has long been rejected by save the planet types, mainly because it doesn't fit with their ideology.

Renewable energy is a dysfunctional mess. It is what happens when ideological nutjobs think that they can pick winners.

These foreign investors are laughing up their sleeves. Making money out of, and buggering up someone else's country, with the help of its communist government: and they don't give a sh-t about the little bit of electricity produced; they care only about the Renewable Energy Certificates.

For all the 'decolonisation' ratbags: Australia is being colonised and exploited by these bastards (with the help of the Canberra Commos) and their entirely unreliable, hideously expensive windmills and solar panels, which Australian taxpayers will have to carry the can for when the contraptions wear out - which they are already starting to do.