Even with the $1.8 trillion spent last year on renewables, the world is still 81% “fossil fueled”, with renewables provided only 8%. Oil, gas and coal remain the big providers, with a little bit from nuclear and hydro.

Total energy demands world-wide rose by 2%. The use of oil for motor transport also rose by 2%.

‘Transitioning’ exists only in the wild imagination of Chris Bowen.

No one has ever answered my question about the storage quandary.
All going well plenty of wind and sunshine.
Then the wind dies around 4pm and it is a cold still night.
If the batteries are big enough you might get through the night till
morning, but then the batteries are discharged and need charging.
Where do you get the power to do so ?
Not from the grid, it is busy running the country.
You need to get about five times the night time consumption between
about 8am & 4pm (Summer), 9am & 3pm (winter)
So you need a dedicated charging system about 5 times bigger than the
grids normal system.
Oh dear, that morning turned out to be overcast and almost no wind !
So tell me how do you get on the next night ?

I will bet that no one has an answer, every time I ask that question
I get a big silence and the thread dies.

Australia is the only G20 country in which nuclear power is illegal.

And, unlike those G20 countries Europe, the Americas, and Asia, Australia has no extension cords to neighbours with reliable power from nuclear, hydro, coal, or gas – we are on our own.

The silence is deafening !