Coalition updates their climate policy, and it’s good …but not good enough. By Joanne Nova.
Angus Taylor won’t find the killer one liners he needs to win the election, because [the Coaltion are] still balancing precariously on the fence. They still won’t get out of The Paris Agreement, and they won’t set targets for Net Zero until after the election, which sounds ominously vague, not like people who know what the country needs — the cheapest energy it can get. …
The solar-power-baby has been subsidized for a quarter of a century, just like the windmills-of-wonderful-weather. When will it end? When do these babies grow up and compete in a free market? Is that never? Not only are they still subsidized directly, we build their billion dollar interconnectors too, and subsidize the battery backup, the synchronous condensors, and the pumped hydro that they need to do anything useful. The subsidies pile on subsidies until the free market dies of dementia and the cheapest energy is driven out of business. …
The Coalition team could start by calling out Chris Bowen, who is speaking outrageous untruths:
Mr Bowen said he expected the next election would again be a referendum on nuclear …
He highlighted “sensible solutions that Australians are backing” such as almost 550,000 home batteries, which he predicted would rise to about one million by the next election. Mr Bowen said these one million households would not only have reduced bills but “reduce prices for everyone else”
The Coalition need to start explaining to everyone that the half a million households with solar power and batteries have made electricity more expensive for other Australians not less. Someone needs to say as diplomatically as possible, that nearly all solar panels were subsidized through electricity bills that mostly came from people without solar panels. Most Australians had no idea. They thought they were helping the nation. It may break the Liberal and National Party’s hearts to admit this (because they endorsed it).
Once upon a time we all had cheap electricity, not just the half million who got a hand out. And the free market can get us back there. But the science needs to be audited, the energy cartels must be disbanded, the subsidies for solar and wind power and batteries must stop. If solar makes any five minute period cheaper, it makes the cold dark hours at night more expensive. The total system cost is always higher with random intermittent generators.
The Coalition thinks if it feeds the crocodile and talks about carbon emissions like they matter (a bit) the lefty machine, the Blob media will be a bit nicer to them. But they will be called cage-rattling science-deniers anyway. …
We’re in a cold war, against adversaries that are building as much cheap power as they can get, while we pretend to stop droughts in 100 years by crippling our energy supply and sending our factories to China. It’s not science, it’s witchcraft and sorcery, and we’re falling for it. How many solar panels does it take to stop a heatwave in Sudan? If we cover the country in windmills will we stop bushfires for ever? …
Just keep repeating, the science needs to be audited, the climate models ignore most of the solar factors, and China built three times our entire coal powered grid system last year. Just say 78 Gigawatts. Australia has about 24 GW of coal power which we’re paying a trillion dollars to close, and China is building our entire national supply every 4 months.
I have the science answers, but no one is interested. (I put that there for posterity.)