Except… the scientists, the engineers, the economists, the data, the budget allocations, the energy forecasts, the IPCC, the BOM, the CSIRO, the AEMO, and reality itself. But sure, it’s everyone else who’s not asking questions.
John Daysh,
All taxpayer funded professional guessers ! No actual evidence of merit asked for. Toyota just announced development of a Hydrogen engine as did BMW not long ago. Put the funding towards that & there won't be any need for these outdated dinosaurs that are the wind generators. Power stations driven by Hydrogen is presently a far more foreseeable answer not those wasteful costly fans !
The dilemma for you et al will be how to continue to procure the funding that is presently unchallenged.

Government pushing and subsidising of unreliable wind and solar is retarding Australia's growth.

High productivity fossil fuels are what have always made Australia highly productive and rich.

Expensive low production unreliable energy has hit a dead end.

China and India, using our fossil fuels, are going gangbusters.

Hydrogen is looking really ridiculous.

Unreliables have reduced our living standards by 8% over the 3 years of the Albanese Socialist regime.

Albanese's productivity agenda has been described as “dead on arrival” by an IPA media release of 10/6/25. Net Zero is destroying jobs and businesses.

Productivity and manufacturing cannot grow when energy prices, already at record levels due to Net Zero, keep rising.

Yet, the more Net Zero fails, the more the Albanese regime “chooses to dig Australia into a deeper energy and economic hole by adding more pillars to the policy in an effort to MASK ITS DEFECTS”.

. Albanese still clings to the impossible ‘renewable superpower” nonsense.
. Poor decisions made on poor advice, lies, and ideology have increased power prices.
. Energy reliability has been degraded.
. The most productive sectors of our economy have been crushed.

But the IPA report does fall down on its claim that the “five pillars” of Net Zero have been deliberately designed to bind “future governments to the Paris Agreement”.

They seem to have forgotten that it was the Morrison government that signed us up to it; and future governments can drop Net Zero if they wish to. We have a fine example of the ability for new governments to get rid of it in Donald Trump's America.

Hydrogen is looking really ridiculous.
ttbn,
Not as ridiculous as the dinosaurs they call wind generators they prop up to the tune of Billions of Tax dollars that could improve society now. Just wait for the clean up & rehabilitation costs fairly soon.

Wow, Indyvidual.

The global scientific and engineering consensus - built on decades of research and thousands of peer-reviewed studies - dismissed in one breath as “professional guessers”… while car company press releases are suddenly treated as gospel.

Hydrogen might play a role in future energy systems, but using it to argue against wind power today is like saying, “Let’s not build bridges until teleportation is perfected.” It’s merely a distraction.

Yes, hydrogen is “foreseeable” - so are flying cars, cold fusion, and diet chocolate that tastes like the real thing. But until it’s scalable, affordable, and produced without fossil fuels, it’s not a replacement.

And let’s not forget: hydrogen means centralised power, with most of the same disadvantages as coal and gas - minus the infrastructure, minus the cost-effectiveness, and minus the actual availability. In contrast, wind and solar are decentralised, scalable, and already driving down emissions.

Your actual objection seems to be that renewables exist at all. If it spins or shines, it offends you. After all, real power (literally and figuratively) is controlled - Right? - and by real men who end their work day dirty, sweaty, and smellin' of burnt shi...

And this notion that the entire scientific and policy apparatus of the country is just a “grift”? Come on. If you’re worried about “unchallenged funding,” look to the fossil fuel companies still raking in billions - not the climate researchers trying to keep the grid running.

You’re not backing a breakthrough. You’re backing inaction, and trying to pass it off as sensible precaution.

Indyvidual

The whole shebang will soon be looking ridiculous.