MasterChef’s Green Gas Is Not Good, M’Kay?
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- Опубліковано 22 кві 2024
- MasterChef season 16 is under fire for greenwashing. The ABC ran a bit of a hit piece, well, not really a hit piece - well, kind of - attacking MasterChef’s green gas. “Why MasterChef is being criticised over a sponsorship deal” - we’ll get to that soon. Note, MasterChef is filmed in Australia’s most left-leaning state of Victoria where traditional flame-top cooking is under threat. As of January 2024, the Victorian government has banned all gas connections to new homes and government buildings. It doesn’t matter if you like cooking with gas, the Government will not allow you.
This year’s season of MasterChef is sponsored by a whole bunch of companies, but one that stands out, and one that the ABC chose to focus its piece on, is Renewable Gas - Australian Gas Networks (AGN), an Australian energy company that operates gas transmission pipelines across many parts of Australia. Specifically, they’re promoting the use of hydrogen, the universe’s most abundant element, which can be produced from water using electricity, and when burned, it only produces water vapour and heat, so it’s a perfectly clean product. The ABC made sure to include this picture, though, warning that hydrogen gas is highly flammable, but isn’t all cooking gas flammable? If it wasn’t, then surely you couldn’t use it to cook!
The MasterChef contestants are also using biomethane, which is captured from decomposing waste products, and can be used interchangeably with natural gas.
But despite the green credentials of the gas products being used, Victoria’s Allan Government are not having a bar of it. Gas is bad, m’kay? How can we trust a fossil fuel company? The gas ban forges ahead! “Allan government steps up war on gas”, “Victoria bans gas rebates and incentives for homes as shift to all-electric gathers pace”. Basically, the Victorian Government have made it illegal for companies to offer cash incentives or rebates to households that install new gas appliances, or connect to the gas network, it doesn’t matter how green the gas is that you plan to use.
It’s funny, if a whole bunch of solar panels are creating hydrogen from water using electrolysis, then from a pragmatic approach, shouldn’t we allow it? Why is the Victorian Government taking a hard line on this and just outlawing gas completely? It’s like they don’t even want people to have a chance to use a green gas option. Presumably in the future, gas production technology will become better, but if the government don’t allow infrastructure to be installed into new homes, well they’ve just destroyed a realistic option, they’ve burnt a metaphorical bridge. It’s like they don’t want to admit that there’s a possibility here. “Green hydrogen push as industry claims gas ban ‘doesn’t make sense’”. Look, I don’t work for a gas company, and I’m indifferent when it comes to using gas - I could take it or leave it - but surely if you can make a green option, allow it for crying out loud!
So why are they kicking up a stink over this MasterChef green gas promotion? What is their reasoning? Is it just a power trip?
The sponsorship deal is being slammed by the Grattan Institute think tank. Alison Reeve, the Climate Change and Energy Deputy Program Director, said that, “It was disappointing that the show was choosing to promote low-emission gas. MasterChef is a pretty high-profile show, so I understand why the gas industry would be eager to get their point of view onto it. It's sort of disappointing that MasterChef haven't realised what the direction of travel here is and realise what the reality is for households, and taken the opportunity to showcase something like induction cooking, which is going to be a much bigger part of people's futures. It's cleaner and cheaper for people. This is a tactic utilised by the gas industry to keep pushing the use of its infrastructure, including gas pipes. This is really a process of trying to protect those assets for as long as they possibly can. They're trying to hang on as long as possible. To make hydrogen cheap, you need to make electricity very, very, very cheap, because electricity is used to make hydrogen. And the thing is, that when electricity gets really cheap, sure your hydrogen gets cheaper, but that means the case for moving to electricity becomes even more compelling.”
Just one more thing regarding the new MasterChef season. It was about one of the judges - renowned chef Jamie Oliver. When the guest judge walked into the room for the first time, he was met with screaming contestants, as well as some who were crying. It was completely over the top. It was as if he had somehow saved their lives. I’ve never like gushing over celebrities.
Anyway, you get the idea - Green gas is not good for cooking, m’kay?
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It's not about the environment, it's about control.
Exactly.
I hear bugs are good to eat
that lady is waaaay too zero to understand how control works - but she does under$tand bribes.
@@jimathybindlenim6359 Only if prepared on an electric cook top.
@@snappingclam8801 We got gas top off ebay, for cooking in the caravan, after a crash we salvaged it and chucked it in a formply box and have a gas stovetop to cook on, just hook up to bottle, if that's your thing
I am so sick of governments telling what we can't and can't do....and "When electricty becomes cheap" LOL..
Energy IS cheap to produce. We just don't notice because of the thieves that are voted in.
Vote One Nation. It's time for a change.
@@nunyabiznes80085 100%.. Yes, I do vote One Nation..
Agreed, there is NO such thing as 'prices coming down' Ever...
Pipe Dreams !
@@nunyabiznes80085wanted to had almost no presence here last election
In context that was clearly a hypothetical statement. The director was saying that hydrogen is expensive because of the high energy cost of producing it. The only way it becomes cost-effective is if energy is extremely cheap. In that case, an electric-powered stove would also be much cheaper, more so than a hydrogen-powered stove.
I can't see how gas pollutes, it burns away in our kitchens and doesn't emit soot or stain our walls. Back in the eighties there was a push by governments to convert cars to LPG because it was clean and cheap.
gas was also the best form of electricity generation we had.
but our govt would rather sell our gas cheap to china who can then sell it back at a highly marked up price
govt is nothing more than a corporation. left wing, right wing, both part of the same vulture picking flesh from the bones of the average aussie
They want to stop Aussies using our “limited gas supply”… so they instead have enough to burn in gas turbine generators, to maintain the non-existent production from renewables when the sun goes down!!
All in the name of “being green”.
It's all to do with the insipid notion that carbon dioxide is "BaD for the eNviRonMeNt!" and a pollutant, which is of course, complete bollocks. But the grubs have invested too much in the nonsense alternatives to back out now, let alone admit they were wrong. So, we suffer until they are ousted and sane people replace them.
Burning natural gas produces a number of waste gases notably methane ...and nox or nitrogen byproducts and CO2
that's why by law you must have vents in a room with a gas bayonet.
It has never been about the environment its about exhorting the people for all they can get then eventually taking us back to the dark ages while touting we need to do this for the environment while they destroy it with all their new green energy eyesores!!!!
People keep voting stupid, you get stupid results.
Ah yes coal powered electric cooktops are far more greener than renewable gas
The gas isn't renewable while electrolysis is a way to get hydrogen it's the most expensive way and most our hydrogen here is produced by methods that use coal or natural gas
Victoria is a lost cause folks,get out while you can.
That's been clear since the pandemic, when they got a taste of totalitarian china levels of control over everyday life.
@coomerkiller to be fair, we just need to build a wall around Melbourne. The rest of the state is pretty decent.
No, they made their bed now lay in it.
I believe they are changing the name to Victanic.
Got out 13 years ago, could see the descent into lefty crap hole coming a mile away, made a pretty penny in the transition too
why are we listening to clearly "challenged" people?
"They need to recognise the direction of where traffic is heading..." No... What they're really saying is... "You MUST accept the direction in which we are forcing traffic to go!"
My missus is a chef and we want to build. This was the last straw that has led us to move up north, on top of wokeness, authoritarianism and expense.
After 40 years, I'll be taking my skills and money and going where we're treated better. F Melbourne.
I just run a separate burner I've plumbed into a portable gas bottle. It's probably illegal as it's inside but who cares
Don't make the mistake of coming to Qld..
NSW ain't much better
If you're against the left woke BS, more than welcome to join the last normal fun part of Aus in North QLD.
Bega Valley mate.
Victoria is bloody hopeless.
Imagine banning an entire elemental state of matter.
SA has tv adverts telling us how gas is keeping the lights on when renewables can't produce enough or any electricity. One thing I noticed is automotive gas has not moved in price. While a bbq 9 kg bottle has gone up between 5 to 10 dollars and 45 kg bottles have gone up 50 to 70 dollars over the last couple of years. No natural gas pipes near our town to know how much that has increased. Do have friends who say their natural gas bills have Risien. One who says it's now cheaper to run his eclectic reverse cycle a/c than use his ducted gas for heating.
More reason not to watch a very boring TV show.
Ummm, cheap electricity? Can anyone tell me where i can find some...maybe under rocks in the bush?
Another country who runs nuclear, south Korea for one, pays 4/5 of fa
Pine gap there running free energy called Zero point energy that tesla invented don't listen to state or federal government there hiding free energy from you
The dead (murdered) people who figured out zero point energy knew.
I live in Victoria and cook on a wood burning stove.
The dimmest of people are supposed to light the way, this never ends well.
I'm glad I don't watch Tv. Thanks for confirming it again.
Michael Stanford is correct about commercial kitchens!! We need to find an alternative gas, as there is no viable way to remove gas from a commercial kitchen environment.
Replacing 6 gas cooktop burners for induction in a commercial kitchen, exceeds the limits of most commercial kitchens power supply. Then imagine changing over every other gas appliance, fryers, ovens, grills, salamanders, hot water (not that any electric hot water could keep up in a commercial kitchen)… the building would require its own sub-transformer!!
Best not forget that most commercial kitchens are using most of their energy during evening trading hours, so if they were run purely on electricity… that’s coming from fossil fuels too, just like households after dark.
Government seem to be in competition with each other as to which one can be the most stupid.
Our Stir fry dinners will suffer!
Stir fry and Asian style cooking in general, just isn't the same when it's not cooked quickly in a round bottomed wok over the high heat and open flames that gas stove tops provide. Will someone think of the Chinese please!
Not just stir fry, all chefs working 6 or 8 or more burner stoves ..imagine trying to control the heat in pans with electric. These people have no clue about cooking..Melbourne won't be famous for food much longer
@@ACDZ123 True true, it applies to all the hospitality industry.. I used to work in commercial restaurants and hotels, the stove tops were always gas.
Won't somebody think of the steaks?
@@maxfish4770 Char grilled steak won't be the same either!
Burning hydrogen also produces Nitrogen Oxide when uncontrolled, generally the hotter the flame the more NOx, so you don't suddenly magically just have steam rising from your gas burners. I also find it hard to believe that they are only using "green" energy to produce the hydrogen itself, all our electricity comes from the same place and most of it is still produced by burning coal, which probably makes natural gas the "greenest" option.
A few others here have said it is about control, but when you break it down, it is _always_ about money, on all sides of the argument.
Exactly
It will explode in ur home kiss your life and home goodbye its very explosive as a material
I find it interesting that a state which buys a lot of it's electricity from other states is banning one of the very things that reduces the need for that. There will come a time when Victoria is in blackouts because of their dependence on imported electricity.
Politicians are meant to be representatives of the public, the key word being representatives. They are not rulers, not independent of the public, and definitely neither omniscient nor infallible. So why do we let them dictate terms of life? It’s time to start visiting these politicians and retune their behaviour and understanding of their role ‘as representatives’ of people - and the people are not in favour of banning gas.
Victorians vote for those politicians, Victorians get what they voted for.
The gas debate aside......
Masterchef goes from issues with one judge, George Calombaris, to issues with another, Jamie Oliver. Surely people haven't forgotten that staff turned up to his restaurants to work one day and were told via a sign in the window that the business had closed it's doors for good. There was no notice to staff. Suppliers weren't paid. Oliver walked away scot free for the most part.
At the time I worked out a basic compensation for his staff based on time worked. Up to a year, one month pay,.... going up to over 5 years, a year's pay. Something like that. It would've cost him a few million but nothing more than a surface level scratch to his hundreds of millions in the bank and the PR would've been priceless.
The Victorian government forcing you to comply. Where have I heard that before?
Need to change the flammable sign to an explosive sign. Hydrogen storage pressure is 10,000psi. LPG is 200psi
How much more can ppl take this country is going to shit and were all being walked on
Been slowly coming for over forty years
I used to love my gas ducted heating but too frightened to use it due to the high cost of gas in Victoria now.
All my renting life there has been 2 deal breakers; low water pressure & electric stoves. That will never change for me.
There is a major problem with induction stoves and that is people like my dad with pacemakers are not allowed near them and they still are less energy efficient than any gas appliance.
They told us gas was the clean option back in the 80's
Hold the electricity for cooking - how are people meant to Plug their Car in ?
5:16 except there's a thing called time. When solar is cheap in the middle of the day, most people aren't cooking. Moving that energy from when it was created to when it can be used requires storage - and that's expensive. On top of that, moving electricity generated from solar farms requires hundreds of billions of dollars in new infrastructure costs in the form of transmission. Every household doesn't have to have gas but they shouldn't be deprived of that option.
Gas is one of Australia's valuable natural resources.
We export it to other countries.
Why can't we use it ourselves?
Does the infrastructure or transport cost too much or something?
Is laying new gas lines for new homes too expensive or something?
I'd like to know the reasoning.
The government needs a monopoly on all the gas for their gaslighting.
I lost electricity (in the nillumnik shire) 4 times in 4 weeks for hours at a time, once was 9 hours.
I'm lucky to have had wood fire and gas.
Tell me again how switching to one source is better?
In a country renown for its natural disasters, notably fires and floods, being reliant on one source of infrastructure is not a brilliant idea. Given the lunacy of it, wouldn't surprise me if this also bans outdoor use, that'll be great during floods and having no reliant heat source.
I find induction cook tops to be crap.
Just as horrible as traditional electric element cooking.
I am a good cook, and I cook well with gas. (Originally called fire)
My house has induction which is ok, but if I want good heat control I use a little portable gas cooker
She's already in the hard hat an hi vis 🤣
Isn't all gas flammable? Thats kinda the idea 😂
I have induction and its not the same as gas - sure the pan heats up quicker on induction I think, however the induction cook top even on its highest setting turns the magnets on and off (pulse width modulation) to avoid cooking the electronics. Where as gas you get it to desired heat and it stays at that level not turning the sizzling steak into a stewing one like electric does (they all run pulse width modulation).
More expensive units don't do that AFAIK
I've used them and I hated it..gas for the win everytime
Big Brother, 1894. This is the definitive act that proves it.
Master Chef, get out of Victoria, it's a banana state that is hell bent on destroying it's economy and your ability to produce a show so it's time to close down all filming in Victoria and find a pro employment state.
Why victorians keep voting labour and green is beyond me
A quick search shows that Victoria gets most of its power from coal, around 54%. This is mostly brown coal. Not as clean burning as black coal. Their gas consumption is surprisingly small at less than 5%.
I hate to admit it, but Reeves is right about something.
It does take a lot, and I mean a lot, of power to condense hydrogen.
But it’s also unpredictable. It can leach through the containers that hold it. It is very volatile. Insert pictures of famous airship here.
The biggest problem we face is an unquestionable belief that humans change climate.
It is what the unelected body, full of failed left wing politicians, is telling us.
When we eventually find out the the whole thing is a scam, I can only imagine the lawyers picnic that will follow.
Unfortunately the people that paid for ridiculous decisions, taxpayers, will have to pay for reparations.
Socialism is fantastic until you run out of other peoples money.
If the government says its bad its good, its tall its small, its large its small, you get the point....
And how much gas and coal do we export to China ? and what are the Co2 emissions from that?
Man's small contribution to CO2 has no effect on the weather and Australia contributes 1.7% of that.
Funnily enough AGIG is Chinese owned haha
Hydrogen currently isn't green, while electrolysis is a method to produce hydrogen it is the most expensive by 2-3x and right now most our hydrogen is produced by methods that either use coal or natural gas
I b et the gov gets kick backs from the electric industry
Weird, gas used to be a byproduct of fuel processing, and is considered one of the cleanest parts of the fossil fuel!
And when the next major electricity outage we all eat cold sandwiches before a cold shower - brilliant policy choices 😂
An electric outage? For an extended time? Nah mate, couldn’t happen. 😂
The reason is simple. AEMO and AER have released their quarterly statistics, and guess what? Except for the odd day here and there, electricity demand is down, down, and staying down. But the problem is, for electricity companies to maintain their profits and grow them, how can that occur while demand is falling every year? Well, the answer is simple, raise demand through government policy or raise prices. Why not do both?
The massive uptake of distributed PV has shifted the demand profile. No longer is peak demand during the hottest part of the day when all the air-conditioning is on. Now, peak demand occurs when we cook. Join the dots. Follow the money.
Has anyone see California lately??? Its already started homeless every where what do you think if you keep going down this parth ... exactly like California 🙄🙄🙄 its unbelievable how pple think it wont happen to me .. yes it will happen to you ...✌️❤️🙏
Have a great supply of wood & 😊Charcoal
having both gas and induction, I can say categorically, induction is not and all round solution, unless you're spending 6 grand on a serious induction top, and even then, I doubt it can provide the same as a gas top for controlled cooling. (and I can't afford to test it personally) this is an ideological push alone and nothing to do with the environment or anything else.
Leans left ? That didn't make sense
It’s just more of the same; Ideologues steadfastly failing to look sideways. If a fuel was developed that could be used in an internal combustion engine without any emissions, they’d still be against it.
So when does electricity get cheap? No time soon me thinks.
I've been using natural gas cooking for years and it's FAST and FAR FASTER than using electricity. Most of my cooking is done on the lowest setting and it doesn't cost as much as electricity. If something is boiling on gas and you want it to simmer just turn down the control knob and it's on simmer straight away. There are gas fumes but I have a range hood over the stove which vents to the outside so there is no smell of gas. My cooking range is a full gas cooker with stove top, grill and oven all being gas as many modern ones only have the cook top as gas. The other two are electric.
Alternatives hahahaha ,you'll have no alternatives yours sincerely your overlord government.
This is bizarre - MasterChef (not a fan) has gone beyond reasonable efforts regarding this particular "energy source" - leave them the frig alone!
Jacinta Allen, who is this person i never voted for or against? Alison Reeve? who the f is this? can we please get some education, practical knowledge and experience back into positions of influence. Alison Reeve, who should be a technical expert seems unable to use any numbers to describe why methane and bio gas shouldn't be used, but is all onboard with shutting it all down. It was only a few years ago that the vic govt were promoting the roll out of more gas to homes. Please can we get some vision and someone in power batting for Australia, not some unknown power
Gas is far more efficient for heating as electricity supply suffers from considerable thermal loss in production and distribution and uses coal or gas to generate in 90% of generation currently
Innovation? Not in my country!
Hydrogen trials seem fine. Recall that if we all use electric cooking, that will be during peak electricty demand times. These times will have more expensive electricity and maybe powerer by more gas and coal.
Reason why is because solar panels, cableing and inverters are made in china and dan has borrowed chinese money for the state
What no one seems to ask (or are afraid to ask) is Can the current electricity power grid sustain all houses going all electric?
Our so called efficient private industries (which own the grids) wont build or expand current power generation. It costs too much and not enough profit. Thanks Mr Kennett.
And before they scream about 'solar panels' they are not the answer to everything and also people who rent cannot install solar panels, that is up to the landlord and they will not install them as it doesn't lead to energy bill savings for them.
And there are cost associated with changing to all electric which has to be met by the landlord. And since the news is already going on about how unaffordable rents are for the average Aussie, this will bump up prices even more as landlords recoup the expense.
Not every Aussie can get into newly built government housing, that is prioritized for Aborigines and "refugees."
Don't blame Kennett... Blame Labor Premier Joan Kirner before him, who's only legacy was to plunge Victoria into so much debt the amount was second only to the massive burden that Andrews (also Labor) has since buried the state under... Kennett took action to rectify Labor's huge mismanagement to prevent generations of Victorians from having to foot the bill for potentially hundreds of millions in interest repayments -- ironic that Labor just went and buried us all again just a generation later, when Labor voters had forgotten why Kennett sold off the local energy grid to fix Labor's mistakes in the first place, and are now trying to get rid of a cheap alternative to electricity (if they allowed it to be fully utilised)...
They're fully expecting every single household to have a battery system. They're not telling you this but that's the intended plan
No one asks the question because they all know the answer. The electricity grid can't even support electric cars. Pile on top of that electric households and electric industry, and there is no possible way to supply the power required. People seem to forget that all the solar panels in the world are of little use if the power grid can not distribute that power.
@@anordenaryman.7057 yep, industry alone in this country would need to be completely shut down if we were to go fully renewable under current plans, as they is no way that the current solar and wind projects could supply sufficient power when needed without some other form of baseload power to support it -- has anyone stopped to consider why nuclear is suddenly being discussed as an option? The green agenda crowd have finally realised that their pet projects aren't gonna cut it, so need to keep up the con and sell nuclear to keep pushing ahead to get rid of coal and gas...
They accuse the gas industry of greenwashing. Of course they would never greenwash electricity, batteries etc
Oh well let's go back to burning wood
Yep…and watch the grubmeat try and tax that!
As the son of a chef I can tell you it’s one of the most unglamorous jobs going.
Hydrogen? Wasn't that the gas used in Hindenburg?
I wouldn't have natural gas in my home mainly because of the large amount of toluene and other hydro carbons produced by burning LNG.
Good for you. More coal burners for you.
Do people still watch TV?
All electric vehicles ,housing and business's are controlled by a smart meter which means the government can switch off your power or drain your storage batteries, house and EV if plugged in. Geo Fencing , Geo Timelines. Geo fencing means your eclectic vehicle can only travel so far before your told to turn back or your power is shut off. Geo timelines means that the government can dictate certain days or times that your vehicle cannot start. Police can shut down EV's as well .
It's called picking winners.
I can't belive people are so stupid ! Once I cut my gas off then father Cristmas & the Easter bunny visited me ! But the thing that conivced my the most I looked at Elvis leaving a pie shop at Collins St ! God bless the Victorian Goverment they saved us yet again . I would be dead now if they didn't save us from Covid !
Hypocrites!!!
Take more than Jamie Oliver to get me to watch woke chef.👹👹👹
Most abundant thing in the universe? GET RID OF IT
I just cant wait for the next election, seeing Jacinta as the PM makes me understand why some animals eat their young.
4:51 Induction stoves are shiite. I live in Sweden where natural gas has never really been a thing because the country has a solid granite bedrock (it would be impossible to pipe much natural gas.) But I was born in Memphis Tennessee where everybody pretty much had gas stoves and I LOVE IT! It IS the best way to cook. The burners on the induction stove has settings 1-9 so if you want to "simmer" at a roiling low boil you would think between 1 to 3 would be the right setting. WRONG! The "1" setting is so low I can put my hand on the burner! 3 isn't even high enough to simmer! 5 isn't medium, it's low! You're functionally left with 5 - 8 to cook with (only use 9 to boil water) and a laughably basic low - medium - high choice is BULL 🐂💩! That's BS pathetic barely workable cooking! I was literally in tears when I realized how shiite this POS induction is! Just trying to cook some barley, boil then simmer for 15-minutes but 45 minutes later it would still crack your teeth in half! WHY? Why even have the 1-4 settings? It's just warm enough to grow a bacterial culture in your food! It's a lie, that's why, they pretend as though there are nine different cooking levels of heat! Don't forget if you use 2 or more burners there's a good chance the entire thing will automatically shut down! You can't use all four burners at once! There's one big one and 3 small burners. If I can't use all three at the same time then why bother having three, they are the same size!!!
I love to cook, but you need many different levels of heat to cook food well.
I guess that since our lords and masters want us to live on beans and potatoes like Soviet peasants none of it matters to them. Get ready for soylent patties and premeasured, weighed food allotments with "up to" 2,400 calories a day! That's all you need, they have it all worked out. Just go to the C40 website, the NGO C40 Cities, you can hear all about it. Unless they've removed those reports. Its Global "Food equity" AKA communism on a global scale. We have 6 years to do something about it. There's a "by 2030" agenda, and they don't care what kind of poverty we will all suffer because of it.
I'm glad I live in Crocodile Habitat. It keeps the Victorians out. The further south you get, the more idiotic people get.
5:17 when?
Whats the difference between biomethane and methane?
To every worker dependant on gas for your income I offer my condolences. You have just been put into redundancy.
Biomethane? Should we keep our cows after all?
If its MasterChef...i'm pretty sure it should be called a shit piece rather than a hit piece!!!
we have an abundance of natural gas but sell it to china who then sells it back to us at a highly marked up price - and our govt is ok with this.
gas is instant heat, but they'd rather force us to go all electric at a time when the grid already struggles
I am new to your channel and so far I am enjoying the content
Greenwashing electricity
Electricity is all about control.
Vote for stupid
Win stupid prizes
The main problem with hydrogen is just that you lose energy to produce it, and then you lose energy when you burn it. That drives the price up, and it will always be more expensive than directly using electricity without subsidies. The main reason hydrogen technology is being researched is as a sort of battery, exporting it to countries who cannot create enough renewable electricity otherwise.
I also don't understand why commenters here are more cynical of the government's credibility than that of a gas company.
And natural gas isn't "clean". The connotations from the word natural are bad enough without the rest of the marketing.
Are these ulternatives a more denser energy and what would they cost.
Oh I forgot it's about the carbon pollution from burning 🔥
Let the people decide not the academic buearacracy
Maintaining a gas infrastructure is not cheap. If we only use electricity, it might be cheaper in the long run.
Cheaper in the long run if they decide as much, having that much of a stranglehold on energy is a pretty good incentive to raise prices.
Umm our electricity grid at this stage can't cope and will need billions of dollars to uplift. Cheaper in the long run?
The Melbourne gas network leaks like you wouldn't believe with all the old rusty low pressure pipework. In some sections it's rusted to nothing and leaks through the dirt 😂
@@craig6809 lol good try but I doubt it. That would be illegal and a huge liability.
@jace1113 cast iron in the ground for 50 years tends to degrade and I said low pressure so under 3kPa, but a leak is a leak.
www.aer.gov.au/system/files/ASG%20-%20GAAR%20-%20AMS%2030-52%20Mains%20and%20Services%20-%201%20July%202022%20-%20PUBLIC_0.pdf
4:11 I grew up on charcoal and gas and I will forever choose charcoal and gas. Shut up Labour.
I was playing with hydrogen gass production 10 years ago. Its a simple technology. We just need nuclear
hang on but solar crys about peak production at midday when no one wants to use it
shrug so why not split some water for later --- at least you not hiring kids to mine cobalt
When that happens the wholesale electricity price goes onto a negative value and they actually pay you to run the electrolyser.
Gas is not what they have their shares money in Mkay they are trading in that sheeper electwicity
FFS
This is the problem when ignorant people are handed top jobs they are not qualified for. Jacinta is not all that switched on and is a mere parrot repeating what she's told, she should honestly work in a field that doesn't require much brain power. To push induction over hydrogen is like comparing chalk and cheese. Induction cooking is not as easy to use as gas, it may also require you to buy all new cookware and upgrade your power circuit to as they can draw a huge amount of power. Induction cooktops can be quite expensive too and while there is cheaper cooktops available, they will cook unevenly due to their cheaper design. Best of all, if everyone eventually goes electric for everything including cars, solar and wind wont cut it.