Institute of Public Affair's Daniel Wilde (sneers and cage-rattling from the leftists) writes that the energy crisis being inflicted on the east coast of the country, and threatened in SA, is a "core design feature" of the zero emissions stupidity "still supported by both major political parties".

"Over the next decade, at least 20 per cent of Australia’s energy generation will be eliminated in the name of net zero, without any form of affordable and reliable energy generation taking its place".

The excitable Chris Bowen's 'even more renewables' shows how unfit he is for his portfolio. Umpteen more renewables still won't work at night, when there is no sun or wind, or when there is too much wind.

And yet these political morons are forcing reliable and affordable electricity producers out of the market with heavily subsidised, unreliable and unaffordable, off-and-on renewables that are at the mercy of nature.

Once the rolling blackouts start happening I think the idiocy will stop. WA does not share Eastern Australia's problem as its system favours continuous over piecemeal energy supply. From memory renewable energy starts making the grid supply chaotic when you try to supply more than 25% of power from it. Coal fired generation that can be converted to nuclear is what China is doing and makes more sense.

And there is the ever present, continuous (except for a few minutes a day),never ending Tidal Power.
Costs nothing to generate, no one owns it, it’s free…and therein lies the problem, cuts the profits.
Where there is no tide or where a country doesn’t have sea access then use alternatives.
All of the Australian coast is tidal, we are in a position to explore and use this never ending power.

As at 17/6/22, electricity was being sourced as follows:

Coal 57%
Gas 23%
Wind 1%
Solar 0.9%
Hydro 15.5% (Tas.)

Does that mean Australia's power supply could almost be 100% renewables if 40 times the current wind and solar capacity were added to the system? It frightens the crap out of me that people in power would even consider doing this.

To be honest with you all, I don't really care where the power comes from, so long as the lights turn on.
But large wind turbines are probably the ugliest.