Energy
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Each time a coal power station closes we, and our way of life, become more hostage to the weather, so we hope reality breaks through quickly. It did, at least temporarily, for Chris Minns in deciding NSW taxpayers would keep Eraring open a bit longer. Don't expect such good sense to ruffle Chris Bowen's mad plans
July 15, 2024
7 mins
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Greenish gas projects, hydrogen and biomass, are sprouting all over, with an analysis suggesting the latter makes more sense in terms of energy output, cost and adaption. Despite what Energy Minister Chris Bowen would have you believe, the numbers don't lie: hydrogen simply can't be produced at sufficient scale to meet anything like Australia’s needs
March 20, 2024
22 mins
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The $16 billion a year in subsidies for wind and solar, plus taxpayer billions devoted to to directly advancing the green cause, is unlike other wasteful government spending. It is spending aimed at poisoning the once highly competitive and low-cost electricity-supply industry. Think of it this way: governments are forcing the nation to manufacture bombs to drop on the people financing them
March 15, 2024
9 mins
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Picture if you will an elderly Dutton weeping in the dark over Australia's energy carnage. If only he’d ditched the Coalition's net-zero pledge and plumped for adequate coal-fired generation until the reactors could come online. Yes, he won the 2024 election with a nuclear pitch, but by then it was already too late and the fate of the grid was sealed
October 30, 2023
5 mins
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It requires the flinty eyes of a misanthrope not to see the romantic appeal of a candlelit dinner, which is what my wife enjoyed when the lights went out. Fortunately, the green commissars of planetary penitence have not yet disconnected our gas so the chicken wasn't ruined. But with the climate-scare juggernaut rolling right along my advice would be to go long on bees wax and wicks
September 21, 2023
7 mins
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According to the Net Zero game plan, its green-eyed spruikers and rent-seeking beneficiaries, the transition will be among the largest and fastest economic transformations in history. Well they're right in one respect -- it will be transformative, but only in the sense that administering ever-increasing doses of poison transforms good health into misery and mortal collapse
September 3, 2023
10 mins
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Federal and state governments are now attempting to retrospectively enforce solutions for energy-policy errors of omission and commission. What none, apart from Western Australia, seem able to acknowledge is that all gas fields eventually reach the end of their commercially productive lives and need to be replaced. If that isn't allowed to happen, stock up on candles while paying a lot more for much less
June 20, 2023
28 mins
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Renewables will provide, optimistically, 10 to 20 per cent of global energy by 2035. There is no prospect of seriously reducing fossil fuel emissions without an accompanying fall in global standards of living directly implied by large reductions in per capita energy use
June 9, 2017
20 mins