Two things came tumbling down yesterday, the wholesale price of electricity by as much as 20.9% in the eastern states, and the 50 year old Liddell coal fired powers station's polluting smoke stacks. As cheap renewable power passes 50% of power generation, the reliance on expensive fossil fuel power is being negated. Great news in my opinion.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-26/power-prices-fall-in-latest-dmo-release/106718250

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-26/liddell-power-station-demolished-to-make-way-for-energy-hub/106699870

Hello Paul,

The short-sightedness of the renewable energy alarmists is hard to fathom.

Is it because the next door neighbour was an early adaptor of solar technology and is still getting the $0.45/kWh rebate all these years later and that green-eyed monster sits on their shoulder?

Is it because some are "consultants" to the coal industry or employed in that industry and fear for their livelihood?

Is it because they have been deluded by talkback radio shock jocks or sky "news" or have become scared from the nonsense from sources such as the Spectator?

Is it maybe because they dismissed and denigrated the idea as a fad all those years ago and it is now too painful for them to change their opinion?

I seriously think that some of them just wish that they could throw a term like "woke" around and we'll slip placidly back to the 1950s.

It is the fundamental nature of wind and solar that makes it fail as a dispatchable power source. That the wholesale price goes to zero when the sun shines is entirely predictable. What you guys should look at is the twenty billion plus being paid to the koala clubbing grifters each year. Why do wind and solar generation need subsidies when they are the fastest and cheapest? Why is all our mineral processing going to coal fired countries?