Total cost of power its very expensive. When you see how cheap solar is that’s just the panels, you then have to deal with the intermittency, and the backup power generation for the periods where performance is degraded.
Don’t get me started, we could be world leaders in renewables, if our politicians weren’t funded by mining billionaires and our media wasn’t heavily controlled by Murdoch
Former colony blues. It wasn’t just the criminals we sent to Australia or the religious wackos exported to the Americas. We also sent people to exploit them and I guess old habits die hard.
I am surprised that their country isn’t mostly working on Solar considering the sun hours they get and the available space.
Not sure what everyone else is on about we are heavily invested in renewables now:
I assume its energy storage problems, and its not efficient enough to import solar and the large amount of batteries required from China yet.
Maybe if Australia keeps increasing its coal exports to China the price will come down as energy prices fall in China.
Is it that expensive to import solar pannels from China, I get that infrastructure scale batteries are expensive?
Total cost of power its very expensive. When you see how cheap solar is that’s just the panels, you then have to deal with the intermittency, and the backup power generation for the periods where performance is degraded.
Don’t get me started, we could be world leaders in renewables, if our politicians weren’t funded by mining billionaires and our media wasn’t heavily controlled by Murdoch
Former colony blues. It wasn’t just the criminals we sent to Australia or the religious wackos exported to the Americas. We also sent people to exploit them and I guess old habits die hard.
As Donald Horne pointed out in 1964, we are country of happy go lucky fools, electing mostly idiots. Nothing much has changed.