‘No country’ in the world where renewables are cheap
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- Geologist Ian Plimer says there is “no country” in the world where renewables are a cheap form of energy.
“The only good thing about renewables is the subsidies keep renewing and going to those promoting,” he told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“But we, the poor taxpayer and consumer, just have to keep coughing up.”
We need adults in government not these clowns...
These people must own shares in companies that profit from wind turbines and solar panels.
Yeah like Malcolm Turnbull
Yep. Corruption is the only logical explanation.
I do, you can to.
@@bretloyd8097 I’m buying shares in uranium miners
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some evil people are controling the world
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me why electricity prices are going up, when it is costing literally nothing to generate it when using renewables.
Probably because you agreed it was a good idea for the state governments to sell off power to greedy private companies?
It doesn't cost nothing. Because the electricity grid must remain stable not all wind power can be added to the grid (because it fluctuates) but the wind generator earns the money whether it is used or not. Second, the costs quoted to generate do not include the cost of installing 100s of thousands of kms of new transmission lines which becomes reflected in power bills. Third, because wind is intermittent, a whole second system of generation must be on standby (at present this is coal and gas). These are owned by private interests who are able to generate higher profits according to demand which ends up in price gouging. Not only that, but our taxes are going towards subsidies to guarantee the wind producers makes a certain profit. This is why nuclear makes the only sense for baseload power. I am fine with renewable but NOT subsidised by taxpayers.
@@marksouthern7542 Dutton is proposing to 100% subsidise nuclear power by having it government owned.
We also need some of the new transmission because people are using more electricity than before - heat pumps, and EVs are cheaper than gas heating and petrol. So people want gas pipes and fuel tankers less and electricity transmission more.
Take a look at the AEMO dashboard to what happens when demand rises in the peak hours around the time solar drops off. The gas plants fire up and the price increases dramatically, the highest price sets the market price for all so remains solar, wind and coal all get paid the same except for contracted generation at a set price
Green Energy Poverty
The greens in Europe are pro-nuclear..... our greens are merely communists, not conservationists.
Keep being a slave to oil companies , pump ur gas sucker ,
@@PsychoFantaOur Greens wants Australia to become a third world country.
I live in Tasmania and we are not at all 100% renewable. We have a gas power plant at Bell Bay which is currently producing power for us
Tas is net 100% renewable.
@@zen1647 Yep. So we should relocate all Australian industry and the majority of the population to Tasmania (or that part of the Mainland that can be economically wired up to Tasmania) build several more Renewable Generation Schemes (like the Gordon below Franklin) and we could be as Green as Kermit! "Ribbet! Ribbet!"
@@theoztreecrasher2647 Or.... we could build renewables in other places where people and industry want them.
@zen1647 read my comment again because it just is not. We have functioning gas power plants and hydro power plants renewables do NOT make up 100 percent of our supply at all and to claim it does is a bald faced LIE!
Can we have a lend of it.. Victoria's gas has disappeared
We need to distinguish renewables. Wind and Solar are not the same as hydro and geothermal. Australia is embarking on a Wind and Solar Grid not a renewable grid
Its not green energy its greed energy. Companies are receiving huge grants and subsides
All the Way to the Bank for China !
The massive misappropriation of taxpayers money and resources into uneconomical and unreliable renewable energy projects needs to be stopped. A few green carpet baggers and their stockholders are temporarily benefiting at everyone else’s expense.
The largely useless and rapidly depreciating renewable energy equipment will soon end up in landfill.
As if the Government isn't going to subsidize Nuclear power. Of course they won't because it's not going to happen, even if the Coalition ever gets into power to change the current generation, I know I won't be around to see it, even if I live to be 100.
You can already do without the big energy companies. Soon it will be economical to do so.
@@KT-bb1tb You are correct. Solar and batteries are dominated by China. This could be quite dangerous. Ask a lobster fisherman or barley farmer.
This alone let alone the rest of the wasted money should be more than enough to sack this government before next election
It certainly should be , but as we have seen many times over the decades, politicians have used misinformation and fear to change the narrative and the direction of the voter’s decisions.
And the Labor party are like a pack of rats that come out of the woodwork to nibble away at the truth.
It really is a pity we don’t consequences for bull shitting politicians, but up in their ivory political towers it seems they can get away with almost anything.
Canberra produces plenty of Methane when parliament is sitting.
The problem with Labour, is they know Dutton has got it right, and are embarrassed, so what do you do when that happens, yell and scream,that is evil. They need to get out of bed with the greens.
The Child in the Man's Body, Has Spat the Dummy !
Can we just vote on no confidence in the govt, sack the lot and lets get some level headed younger people in power!!
You can get a bus load of those from a pro Hamas terror support camp at your local uni.
For centuries young people have always been overrated. Old people have been scammed before.
At $1.5 Trillion (In Todays Money) by 2030......It Sure as Hell Won't be Cheap ?
Australia will be Venezuela 2.0 by 2030.
How many nuclear power stations would that money build?
Net Zero is prohibitively costly, and totally unnecessary.
We should withdraw from the ridiculous Paris Accord and simply use the most economical energy resources available.
@@whiskeygamer9402 Hardly anyone votes Watermelon. we should be o.k.
Guaranteed to bankrupt our Country.
At least the three eyed Koalas would still have trees to live in.
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As opposed to the ghost Koalas where wind farms will be
@@PsychoFanta What do Koalas have to do with wind farms? They can't climb them, the blades are too high to be hit by them.
@@johntomasini3916 land clearing
@@PsychoFanta Just think of the wood chips for non-plastic, disposable cups.
thanks Ian and Rita
Tasmania where I now live is burning Gas right now.
More Harry Potter economics from The Great Albonzo and his Lying Circus.
Can't wait to see how they stand up to the first cyclone
Don't know about Solar Farms but Wind Towers? They survived both Cyclone Larry and Cyclone Yasi without structural damage. Needed quite a bit of TLC to fix water ingress (as did pretty well everything else in the area) and at another time 1 unit did catch fire and burn out the generator head/blades, presumably from poor maintenance. They ain't "wet-and-forget" units but need the normal level of (costly) care. 😱😉😊
Greed is not the answer for ruling the world
For socialist narcissists it always is, but they are now finally in the minority.
@@connorduke4619 What's the population of The People's Paradise of China" again?! 🤔
@@theoztreecrasher2647 Most Chinese are not narcs. But most of their leaders are, ditto leaders of Democrats in USA, Liberal Party in Canada, Labour party in UK / Australia / New Zealand, D66/Greens/VVD in Netherlands, etc. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
What is Sad, is Wind and Solar at Their Peak Output would be Producing at About 70% of the Time ! With Coal and Gas Banned by Labor....What Then ?
Blackouts.
Our current government is colluding with ridiculous and economically destructive popular delusions. It is acting contrary to the national interest and needs to be voted out ASAP.
As a "conspiracy theorist" it's hard to inform anyone about how crap our government is.
I want people to wake up.
By the time wake uptime is it'll be too late
Not it won't the balanced of narcissistic to empathetic souls on Earth has finally shifted in favour of the latter... hang in there and hold your course!
Straight facts 💯
What a disaster, look at the destruction of farmland, and for what? I guess WEF is pleased if we die of starvation
And nuclear submarines are ok? Figure
Narcissists like the entire ALP cabinet hate to figure, they can only manipulate and poorly at that.
How bad this labor lies to us in so many things.
A real pity that Plimer doesn't appear to know that "100% renewables" Costa Rica is 80% hydro. No country should be touted as the "renewables example' for Australia that has more hydro capacity than Snowy could offer. Also someone needs to tell Albo that the UAE surpasses Australia in it's great swathes of sunshine and yet it didn't dare go 100% renewables plus battery but put in nuclear as well.
Did Elon Musk over hype climate change to sell more Tesla’s….?
Teslas sell themselves. Soon even you will be able to afford one. No oil changes, no spark plugs and no waiting in line at Shell.
The ranges are getting so good that you will mostly charge free from sunlight at home, unless you are a battery hen style human in a home unit.
@@KuriosDiogenesJar 🤡
He scammed the scammers
Wouldn't know why when they need thousands of tons of resources to make.
Turnbull Renewables Pry Ltd is an ESG DEI business.
It would go into liquidation if taxpayers stopped subsidising it.
@@johngeier8692yep… Turnbull is a carpetbagger.
The price of hydro in Tasmania doesn't predict the price of wind/solar in SA.
This guy is gold!
A L P = Australian Liars Party
L N P - Lunatics and Nutters Party.
Look at the UK, perfect example they're bills have quadrupled, £4000 per year
Indeed. Net Zero is economically destructive delusional insanity.
It needs to be abandoned.
Wind turbines make no economic sense except in remote cold windy places like Antarctica and solar panels are only useful as a supplement in sunny areas between the 35th parallels. They make no economic sense in cloudy upper latitude areas such as the UK.
The big irony is that the UK is cold for most of the year and would benefit greatly from a modest amount of warming.
Prove your power generation ACT and put the solar panels on the lawns of Parliament House.
A wind generator on the flag pole maybe worth an ivestigation.
I’m so glad you are showing this I’m going to send it every where I can
Tasmania backs up with gas. We only need to import power from the mainland because we sell excess to the mainland. If we didn’t have the cable we would still have power.
one should read the Guardian to know what the opposition is doing.
Adam Bandt is missing a letter from his surname, it should be spelt, Bandit.
It’s clean power isn’t it so what are they worried about isn’t that what they want
The only place in the world where renewables are cheap and reliable is inside Bowen’s tiny mind ….
A VERY lonely place!!!
you can hear the wind blowing inside that thing he calls a head.
Never seen any 3 eyed Koalas around Lucas Heights.
What can be said renewables without baseload power is that if the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow there is no power unless there is baseload of one form or another to provide the full demand level in order to keep the economy going. For this reason, it doesn't make any sense to bulldoze ahead without any thought or plan for the total system KPIs not to build baseload into the system from the start and then build the renewables around this where it makes economic sense. Some economists in Germany believe that baseload with a renewable penetration of 30-35% might be one approach for the effective use of both sources of energy. Whatever form baseload energy takes, the most economic use is that use it for providing the bulk of the energy and switch in/out the renewables are the load changes.
In relation to the choice of baseload, we have the option of coal, gas, and nuclear and there is no doubt that gas in the short term followed by nuclear is a no-brainer and even those with arts degrees might understand this.
You are being generous… the professional basket weavers don’t know how to think critically. They lick windows and glue themselves to roads.
🇬🇧Our wind turbines are still and our solar DC lines are overheating in the current hot weather reducing the current so we switch on the 24/7 back up gas and coal and import more expensive electricity from the EU. So, we run two UK systems to ensure continuous power supplies.
It still takes more power (26:21) to make a solar panel than the panel produces in its entire 20-25 year life span.
Just google nem watch to see how power is produced in each state. For Tasmania it has hydro not wind or solar. This is what the debate is about.
Costa Rica has rolling brown outs on and off!!!
Dont worry old vincey will got on another voyage of discovery and find some new countries
Yep you discovered both Spain and The US in the same day.
Yes and i discovered china the week after and built the great wall of china @Super_Mario128
It is really cheap in China .
They build the solar farm in the desert….so, land is free.
The water to wash solar panels irrigate the soil….and grass grew.
They allow the local farmers to bring their goats to graze.
Win win.
The solar farm brought electricity to the rural area instead of bringing electricity from far away.
Yes . Agrivoltaic is solution
@@Terkini-pr1nj
China will make the world a better place with their innovation and cheap electronics.
Now, everyone can have aircon ,TV,phones, 4G……
Hahaha the right hand not listening left hand. Your master just told the world he going to use renewables 😅
Stop the cheap air fares for a start. Take that kind of pollution out of the skies and limit all the immigrants ability to afford air fares.
Do that at the end of the year. I wanna visit Europe soon
Gas is the bridge from coal to nuclear and renewables.
Wind and solar are infinitely-expensive, on a sustained basis.
There is no bridge to wind and solar.
Unfortunately some politicians and political parties are just dirty , and here in Australia sadly Labor has a track record of misinformation and dirty tricks , and I have no doubt libs have had their turn , but currently Mr Dutton seems to be one of the straight shooters ( more honest in politics) , and given he was an ex copper, I would expect him to have more integrity than some of the career politicians that are just in it for the glory and self interest like Albanese and Bowen.
Yep, things would have been better if Roger the Dodger Rogerson had gone into Politics. 😱😵💫
Nuclear is not unclear as it is being used world wide. Nuclear power stations when built have a low component cost compared to wind & solar which require full replacement at approx every 20 years. Therefor their cost is ongoing & getting more expensive due to inflation. Nuclear stations will last 80 to 100 years with minimal outlay. Normal every day to day items that wear out. Nothing in the actual core.
Paraphrasing the Geo: Albanese should remember the vote for "The Voice" against the overwhelming of the opposition from "the blob"
There's a magic machine that sucks CO2 out of the air, costs very little and builds itself; its called a TREE! Plant more trees and burn coal. True Green energy.
Renewables are cheap in Australia. Chris bow bow said so!
I knew that bloke was spouting misleading bs but that won't stop Labor quoting him. Thanks,Ian & Rita.
I was born in Tasmania been back there multiple times live in WA for 24 years now Tasmania is no way cheap for power anything down there is not cheap. Nuclear best way to go.
According to the ITA Energy Resource Guide Costa Rica gets less than one percent from solar, 8% from geothermal, 12% from wind and 79% from hydro. I'm waiting for the wind and solar spruikers to cite a country running on candle wax and yak dung.
A lot of tropical areas are very cloudy, especially the intertropical convergence zone.
Net Zero should be abandoned and the most economical energy resources available should be utilised. Both nuclear power and geothermal energy are currently under used, whilst wind power is centuries out of date and uneconomical and unreliable and solar power is only economical as a supplement in sunny areas between the 35th parallels.
I dont think he meant to say kilowatt hour. The prices he said are more than we pay.
I think he meant megawatt hour.
Perhaps Plimer would like to compare the cost of renewables with that of nuclear, coal and gas. No? I didn't think so.
Labor voters have left to go comment on the ABC channel, oh wait.
What!!! You ignorant Peasant!! You expect to be able to post comments on a service that is paid for directly out of your taxes! What's the world coming to?! 😱🙄👿
Canberra is run on Gas🤣🤣🤪. Lots of it!!
Its cheap to install an implement ontop of individual house holds because you dont need to carry individual cabling and cart around the logistical aspects of installing the massive fields of them in bum fluff no where... when you have roof space everywhere... and then it costs the maintenance of repair if we do have huge fields of these fields, the repairs are going to slap those that / cant / install roof top solar aka apartments and high density dwellings or people with roofs older than structurally sound to install... its a chill idea foe the tall end of down but not the broad end of the economy and eventually welfare society as a whole
Rooftop solar cheap for government expensive for owner
How much more lies 😂,
Who Is renewable ?
Our nearest Star ( Sol ) drives climate on planet Earth .. and always has .
We need nuclear but we also have a 500 years worth of gas at current rates. as we run our buses transperth in WA off of gas train's electric. We need a mixture of energy more energy the better. Cheaper it will be while investing in newt green technology but at a feasible rate price over next 50 years go to space and improve living standards. Human Goals. Just My opinion.
Wonderful grift the green scam🤭🤭🤭
To the Australian fairdinkum people Say s IAM that Iam Amen and amen
Still lot cheaper then old past fusion 😅 technology
never fails, want a wacky opinion - ask a geologist
want a really stupid opinion ask a greenie or liebor supporter.
There's one or two around still require startups to service time issue but electric motor run you know that Mars rover for a 2.5 nuke year reactor vs a nasa build lithium battery to 4 nasa self spinning wheel dynamo to charge it 8 years min 😢with the savings you could send a second rocket with battery and carry tray with a robot 🤖
So what there's 'No country' in the world where Nuclear is safe either.
Except Maybe...China....India....USA ?
400 nuclear plants running as we speak
Classic bed wetter post.
India and Switzerland have 55 year old nuclear power plants. I bet most folk didn't even know India and Switzerland had nuclear.
The sun is powered by sustained thermonuclear fusion and emits plenty of ionising radiation in addition to visible light. The state of Queensland has the highest incidence of melanoma in the world.
All forms of energy production entail some degree of risk.
Nuclear fission power plants are currently safer than rooftop solar.
Sky and guest have their noses in the fossil fuel trough
Fossil Fuel's Paved the way, for You to be on this Forum ?
We call this progress , Do u people understand why The Spirit of St. Louis flew across the Atlantic in a single engine plane ? So it could ADVANCE humans abilities to fly , things must be tried now. Failure or not its gotta be done now. Progresss is pain , its work , Republicans dont work ? Are they all slow and lazy ?
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@@whiskeygamer9402 I must've hit the proverbial nail on the head, eh bruh
@whiskeygamer9402 u would think southerners would have some respect for the Wright Brothers aspirations ,, or didn't they teach yall abt that .
Nuclear power works.
Wind has a low energy density and wind power is centuries out of date.
Solar panels are only economical as a supplement in sunny areas between the 35 th parallels.
The carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels have the beneficial effects of greening of the planet with increased agricultural yields (main effect), reduced water heating costs, fewer deaths from hypothermia and postponement of the next glacial maximum.
Weak and corrupt politicians allowing ridiculous and economically destructive popular delusions to triumph over critical thinking and common sense in the formation of energy policy is a retrograde step back into the dark ages.
You couldn't lie straight in bed, Ian.
:I
you're allergic to the truth.
Wait till they have to keep replacing solar panels regularly.they dont mention that ever