We keep hearing how cheap and wonderful renewable energy is for us all.
Well ask the Germans about Dunkleflaute !
It has caused them to buy electricity anywhere it can get it.
German industry has started to collapse due to the cost of electricity.
They are now in a hurry to restart their nuclear power stations.

They are further down the industrial slowdown than we are at present.
If you want to see our future read this;
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21244/europe-germany-renewable-energy
Also in todays Australian it deals with our teetering energy system.
see article by Chris Uullman

The real absurdity of our absurd Albanese government is that they ignore the bloody obvious example of countries who have found that wind and solar just does not work.

Less than a third of voters gave their first preferences to Labor at the election. Surely they must go at the next one, when they gave dragged down Australia and stuffed up everything they have had a go at - without learning a thing.

Think back to how great Australia was before the carbon dioxide SCAM and the ensuing mass hysteria; gifted with natural resources that we used to grow and become one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Now we are starting to look like another Argentina. Yes, the Argentina comparison has become a cliche, but it’s still the best example of a rich country going broke, as Australia now is.

The Albanese government was not successful in making Australia an officially racist state with the Voice; it was not successful in its attempt to remove our freedom of speech via the M.A.D Bill, and its clumsy attack on kids using social media will not work.

Its only ‘success’ has been to make Australians poorer (7 quarters of per capita recession) via mass immigration, unaffordable housing and renting, anti-Semitic and a dangerous place for Jews. Overseas investors don't want to touch us (unless they are getting huge subsidies for useless wind and solar assaults on our environment ); there are warnings out for would-be tourists to Australia - the latest one being for the bushfires, something that always has been and always will be, part and parcel of Australian summers.

It seems that the nastiness and incompetence of the ultra-Left Albanese government has caught on globally. But, apart from a few outsiders who will never amount to a political force, our political class doesn't give a damn.

We are now past the point where a change of government will make any difference. Australia is a virtual one party state, with the Coalition's only contribution being an 8-10 year take up of nuclear energy for the sake of the same SCAM: essential-to-life carbon dioxide, 97% of which is naturally occurring.

On the matter of costs of wind and solar one factor I never thought is
about the cost of transmission. A transmission line sits there 24 hrs
but only gets paid for transmitting energy for no more than 8 hours
a day in summer and 6 hours in winter if it is not cloudy.
Our bills transmission charges have to increase about 100% because the
capital cost is the same.
It gets worse the more it develops.

Germany is the World's premier example of the idiocy of an ideological power grid. Its green energy costs three times as much as French nuclear. Because biomass power generation has four times the CO2 emissions as coal, German green energy, with 25% biomass generation, generates more CO2 than it would by using coal power instead. It relies on foreign gas imports which has caused significant economic harm and compromised the nation politically. It abandoned nuclear for reasons which have been shown to be false, and continues to obfuscate and lie about the possibility of recommissioning nuclear plants.

The consequence of Australia pursuing wind and solar will be much worse than the German experience as there is no external power grid to connect to. Worse, the ideological lunatics pushing renewables seem to believe that if we just stop using fossil fuels the many resultant challenges will benignly resolve and we will move on to a better future.

What terrifies the wind and solar industry is the prospect of the nuclear ban being lifted. Because nuclear has a high capacity factor and long generating life it is much easier to finance commercially as it can enter into long term supply contracts. Because wind and solar are non-dispatchable, financing without massive subsidies and government guarantees is not commercially viable. A level playing field would mean the end of the wind and solar con.

There is an organisation of atmospheric scientists cientists who
beleive that global warming is a hoax or a fraud.
It is Clintel and has been going for a few years
They have produced this video at 1 hour 20 minutes that
demonstrates that far from being in climate warming
we are in a long ice age.
It accuses the warming movement of being hooked on
government grants and are locked onto global warming.

https://climatethemovie.net/

I suggest that you all watch this then come back to discuss it.