Proposed renewable energy projects across Queensland.
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2024
- There are currently 3,365 turbines proposed for Qld delivering name plate capacity of approx. 22,874MW. This excludes the wind farms that I know are planned but don’t have turbine quantities for. The proposed Proserpine Wind Farm for example will have over 200 turbines so safe to assume there are over 4,000 turbines thus far. Considering a capacity factor of say 25% then we will need to double this number of turbines to say 6,600 turbines to keep lights on at night in summer if there is wind. If we have a few nights of no wind and the proposed theoretical Eungella Pumped Hydro is built then we can keep lights on for a few hours here and there. To achieve true Net Zero (removing carbon from agriculture and transport fleet) then pick a number above 20,000 turbines required and if no wind start building a fleet of gas plants. If we want theoretical hydrogen add another 10,000 - 25,000 turbines again if you can find any more land where there is wind.
There are some wind farms down south of the state that I am unfamiliar with and seem to be on either cleared or mostly cleared land. I have ground truthed many sites from Gladstone north and many are in very high biodiverse areas due to their untouched rugged and remote topography.
I’ve left Chalumbin WF on my animation because it will no doubt come back in some form or another depending on who gets the available capacity first in the transmission.
Enjoy 3 years of data collection showcasing the future destruction of some of our best high elevation refugia forests (north of Gladstone).
This makes my feel so sick, these politicians are out of control. Absolutely disgusting.
Being a politician is just their side job at this point. They're corrupt mafiosos as their main occupation.
you voted for them...
@@alwaysright3718
Only 33% of the population voted for them.
I'm sick to the stomach.
Where are the greenies now?
Crickets.....
They're cashing the cheques they've received for allowing this. And reserving their flights around the world to luxury retreats.
what greenies there aren't any in Australia...
They're spashing paint over artwork in museums, glueing themselves to shit .👍🇭🇲🦘
This is enough to make a grown man cry.
We don't want you to cry. We want you to scream out the warning that this is far more dangerous to Australia than even the worst scenario from climate change (that the wind and solar farms will have no effect upon).
All those large roads throughout the mountainside will cause nonstop soil erosion.
This must be stopped now! At any cost
Where are the First Nations people standing up for Country?
After driving around Victoria for the last couple of months, seeing all the solar and turbine farms across some of what was beautiful country, i don't want this in my home state. Shame of the governments and investors for their lack of vision and looking at alternatives that can still provide sufficient power, low emissions and save our beautiful country.
Ask Keith Pitt is back the coal mine just north of Bundaberg on prime farming land and cutting thru the kolan river. 7,900 hectacres.
Go green LNP and PHON.
The quicker Dutton can be elected as PM the better to put an end to this vandalism of Queensland's beautiful environment. This is a national scandal! Eungulla is absolutely magnificent, and these Green and Labor criminals are going to destroy it to put some windmills up. These workers should be building houses for Aussies not windmills for Chinese companies.
Why isn't there more interest in hydroelectricity? Lord know we have enough rain to fill more dams.
@jenniferharrison5040 Because there's not enough rain everywhere in the country. Where I live, we just came out of a 7 yr drought in 2022 and I live 2 half hours from Brisbane. You might get a lot of rain in Victoria but it's not enough to fill a dam. Compared to what north Qld gets its like comparing a 10 ltr bucket full to a swimming pool full. Beside qld needs more dams before hydro
@@gingertom56 Please note that that mine is an underground mine for metalurgical coal. Apart from a rail loading facility it may have very little visible presence and should not be cutting through any rivers or aquifers. It would have little to no effect on the agricultural land above it.
Firstly, thank you for all your work Steven, and those associated with you. Without the work you have done most Australians would not have a clue what is happening in their own back yards. This destruction in the name of renewables is a total disgrace. Even the wind farms out at sea pose significant environmental issues. You have highlighted a cost of $1.5 trillion to 2030 and $7 to $9 trillion over the next 37 years (net zero report July 2023) while the CSIRO have said that Nuclear is too expensive, the CSIRO work for Bowen so no surprises there. Can I please share your information far and wide? Best wishes, keep up the good fight.
This is the rape of the natural bushland of Australia. It should be a criminal offense to do this much damage to the environment.
It is for most.
Thank you Steven for all the work you have done to show us Aussies how much these windmills and solar panels will change for the worse our country and how useless they are when there is no wind and no sun. You can't cook a egg Albo on the road in the night time, when it is raining, or any time in Winter, Autumn and Spring only a few days in Summer and that's a fact ;-) so why say things that are wrong and misleading. Thanks again Steven for what you are showing is only one third of what Labor wants and needs to try and achieve their agenda and not caring for our prime country, wildlife and our citizens. With what you showed being only a part of how many windmills is needed to meet Labor, the Greens and the Teals targets they will need at least double to make 12,000 in all. How disgusting, I hope you can find the funding to show other states and Territories what is happening with them as well as what and how many more windmills and solar panels will be needed to scare out country and empty our economy. Please keep up the info and the good fight. Thank you
Interesting how they can build roads into these farms to build and maintain them when actual farmers are enforced and fined from removing trees as they are for habitat refuge/corridors for wildlife. Of course birds hopping from one side of road to another is probably going to get knocked off by the turbines when they're operational.
This is a bob brown and Franklin dam moment I can’t image what Tasmanian would be without the Franklin river
Thank you for the enlightenment. this is so devastating to our country and our lives. Appreciate your research and passion to help.
This can’t be shared enough
Thank you for sharing. Outrageous
Insane
How is this going ahead when it's not our land. We're constantly reminded of the traditional land owners yet I never hear of any opposition. I guess anyone can be bought $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
So sad that the people sleep while this destruction continues
Well, most people in the world live in a completely different time zone so it's only natural that they sleep while those roads etc. are built 🥸
And they wonder why the earth is heating
Countries that closed their nuclear power plants (france and germany I think it was) for green energy have greatly increased their carbon footprints and are now saying their net zero goals will have to be pushed way back. Turns out the Idiocracy movie was actually a documentary on where we are headed.
You need to stress the *thousands of hectares* which are going to be destroyed, not just the number of turbines and solar panels to be installed, to truly give the public an indication of how much of our irreplaceable natural heritage is to be sacrificed.
I've been saying this for at least a decade, but it's way worse than even I could have imagined.
This is disgusting & made me feel so emotional watching this it nearly brought a 47 year old grown man to tears.
This is one area of the world too. Now scale this devastation up across the entire planet.
We must stop these psychopaths at all costs
Yup. They are clearcutting the rainforest now to destroy the land and poison it with those surface lithium mines where indigenous people live. The copper required to replace every vehicle with an E.V. would require more than the total amount ever mined by man in our entire history. Problem is the tree huggers always protest them for destruction to the earth, including in my own state which had to hire armed guards to patrol the perimeter. They're going to have to make their minds up if they really want to support E.V.s or not. If so, then they would have to support the nature destroying mining that is caused by them then as well.
I've shared this on our local community fb page. Thankyou for all your work on this video.
I am actually very distressed about this.
Where can we get a printed out Map of these areas ?
In 20 years time when those turbines begin to die of old age, no-one will take them down.
They will just be left to rot.
In most cases they will be taken down...but then left there on the ground in nature not to rot, but to stay there as non-biodegrading problematic waste.
@@pistonburner6448 The Contracts that I have heard about, the responsibility for the deconstruction rests with the land owner. Including the costs. And the actual disposal of the structures (due to the often difficult terrain even with the "access roads" and the size of the bits, it will not be economically viable for a scrap metal dealer to send in their heavy equipment.)
Also site remediation. Remove that 250 tonnes lump of buried steel reinforced concrete?
@@planesounds Round the world there are lots of dumped composite wind turbine blades...they are not steel or anything which is recyclable. They are also not biodegradable. They are problem waste. The blades also wear far earlier than the lifetime of the whole turbine installation: the edges of the blades wear out much faster than anticipated, and thus blades need to be replaced often (and the efficiency drops before they are replaced).
@@pistonburner6448 Having recently had a close look at a set of blades, they are a monster and not unlike a beached whale over a hundred kilometres from the ocean. I also have photos of what a blade breaks into when the whole tower is brought down (with explosives around the base place inside the tower). The blades at McIntyre wind farm come from India and come in sets of three. If one degrades all must be replaced. Weighing in at ~22 tonnes, they are not something that you just tow out behind the Landcruiser.
In the Queensland (and most of the inland) the natural UV levels are far greater than experienced in Europe and North America. Plastics (resins) that last for decades in those environments are badly degraded and cracking apart after one summer here.
The design of the blades is an amazing and difficult aerodynamic challenge for the engineers and actually is akin to that on a medium sized jet airliner.
@@planesounds Another problem is rain and other impurities (birds, bats) physically wearing out the leading edge of the blade. Damage to the leading edge cannot be patched or fixed, it means the whole blade must be replaced...and as you said the other blades too.
So so sad! I live in a beautiful part of Suffolk , England and I am watching the destruction of this unique ancient glacial valley with huge swathes of solar farms on prime agricultural land aided by awful chemtrailing. Animals and humans are suffering alike….for what??? We just get sick, the land gets sick .
“For what?”; you ask … Well, it is very easy to work out the ‘benefit’ of UK achieving NetZero
A … UK emissions per year = 400 million tons (from uk.gov)
B … CO2 required to increase global temperature by one degree C = 1 million million tons (IPCC)
Divide A by B to get the reduction in global temperature if UK achieved Net Zero.
Answer; 0.0004 degrees Centigrade per year.
That’s four ten-thousandths of one degree C per year.
@@Hickalum Had no idea this misery would save so much!!!! Lol. UK has gone crackers, however The Programme is running nicely on course and the puppet masters are well pleased. Global synchronisation to perfection.
@@Hickalumyep , bloody ridiculous mate , and I just watched a video on wind turbines in Texas , and things are not low maintenance, and those massive bird killing blades that are apparently made of fibreglass and have a short service life , do not appear to have any recycling method worked out, so they fill paddocks and are stored there with no light at the end of the tunnel to dispose of them in a green way.
When you take into account the amount of land being cleared , the forests being ripped apart, and of course the destruction to wild life , the fact that all these wind turbines require roads for heavy machinery access 24/7 , and the cost of putting up gigantic high maintenance wind turbines that work part time, you’d have to conclude they are just a big scam .
Of course, we know people with vested interests are making big money out of this net zero BS .
Some of them being politicians, and if they are not making money they are getting votes by sucking in the naive in the community.
Well done
This is madness 😢
This is a perfect video to show the people what is about to happen to this beautiful country.
Maybe also draw a line around the areas that are no longer usable for living and building, according to building regulations on standards for noise and casting shadows.
Entire valleys will become unlivable in the future for humans and animals.
Wow, rip Australia's native forests. This is only the beginning too, I bet.
To say I am sickened would be under cooking it. If you ever have time, can you do one nation wide including offshore? too much work i know.
They should put all the power generation in the cities where it's needed - wind turbine in on every 8th property down the roads in peoples back yards (if they still have them these days), on top of shopping centers and apartment blocks (just make turbines into housing double the benefit and win for all those people wanting to live there).
Check out Simon Michauxs work. He has done the sums on rebuildables. There is not enough minerals and materials worldwide to even go close to doing the job, and that only considers electrickity, not transport.Nuclear when the world realises rebuildables won't work. There is only 90 year of known uranium reserves. We have to look back 100 years and use less energy
The drive to net zero..... at what cost.
Steven, thank you for pointing out these very human behaviours in our country. Consumption is key. Stop consuming and uproot the demand. The same goes for plastic and other environmentally impacts in our environment, stop consuming and it will disappear. Working together is key, our society is conditioned to think individually.
You should lead us by example. Become amish or a caveman and stop consuming all your internet related devices. All green energy devices and E.V.s need plastics. Also oil, grease, etc... Look up how much oil the windmill generators hold and how often that oil needs to be changed just like an i.c.e. vehicle needs oil changes. As long as man exists, it will never "disappear". Not even oil use can disappear for decades to come, even if we went to 100% green energy tomorrow.
Hi Steven, I would love a copy of the 3D map to share around. Is there somewhere I can get access to it please?
Unbelievable. A tragedy unfolding before our eyes.
We don't have wind energy but we do have oceans of tidal and wave energy.
In Australia that has been a boon doggle that has washed away several $million in projects that were abject failures and ended up as rotting rusting piles of junk on the rocks in harbours or stranded off beaches. Tidal has two daily periods of zero as it turns and the salt water rots away all moving parts. Get a Government Grant for a "proof of concept" and you can be good for a few years.
The ocean has a habit of destroying man made structures left in its' care.
Leave the bloody oceans alone too, we’re having more than enough destruction on land.
Heartbreaking. I am aghast
When rooftop solar and home or neighbourhood batteries could supply all our residential needs, why do this?
Is it so foreign owned fossil fuel companies can make more money exporting green hydrogen while not paying any tax here.
wind complements solar. solar farms and wind on a grid delivers much cheaper energy than homes with PV on the roof and batteries. PV is it costs less to deploy en masse at farms. can be compatible with cropping systems too. you also need to realise that much of the power we sue today and even more of it in a net zero economy will not be used in households. all sorts of buildings and industrial locations will need electricity to avoid using fossil fuels. saying “i’m alright, i’ve got PV and batteries” will not solve the climate crisis.
@@alastairleith8612 Simply though just bear in mind that the "Climate Crises" is a 100% political construct. Only money will solve that "Emergency". Our money.
All people that work in this are blinded by the salaries they bring home!
Thankyou for all of your work. Can you suggest any alteratives for eco power generation?
Nuclear, gas, coal, diesel, oil, we have plenty of each, suitable for purpose, unlike replaceables.
This really is a tragedy. I used to be worried sick about global warming but now I can see the real problem is mankind's trashing of the environment. How the hell can people who profess to be environmentalists support this carnage?
What happens to the grid when all these turbines fire up at the same time and the demand is low? The grid can't handle the input from solar panels and it looks like the home owners are going to be charged/taxed for the energy they put into the grid when it isn't wanted which is for 90% of the time they produce power.
I used to be anti nuclear but now I want to see the latest, cleanest nuclear power stations being built so all the renewables, except for remote locations, can be removed and the land rehabilitated ASAP.
Exilint vidio, thank you. Music too load.
Block, stymie and (whenever possible) sue the proponents of these things. It's incidents like these why the ban on nuclear simply has to be overturned.
Good to see this progressing.
Having worked on operating wind farms and having studied the application it is fair to say - done correctly wind farms offer a real chance to reduce GHG and provide significant benefits. In fact the a German study and manual stated in detail all the places wind turbines should and should not be situated. The problem is not the engineers or those championing renewable energy, the problem lies with the model. In this case private companies race to build win farms or generators that they can sell to the major energy companies, they have zero interest in the environment their motivation is profit and greed. This is a failure of government to take control of construction, planning and implementation, by allowing greed to rule - areas of nature that should be saved and preserved and lost, the similar battle remains for the Dension plain in NZ, greed is pushing at the door to resume mining. As both and engineer and a bush walker photographer (not a very good one) I despair at both the damage to the environment and the stigma technicians and workers suffer because greed rules over proper implementation.
Fucking BS they offer anything but a destroyed landscape.
We oceans and the sun if they really want free energy. This is evil
In Australia, we are already beyond "Net Zero" thanks to the natural actions of our National Parks, Native and Forestry Reserves and Native Title Lands along the Great Dividing Range. The flora contained therein absorbs more CO2 than is produced by human activity within Australia. The drive for this is 100% political and will have no benefit to the atmosphere after doing so much damage to the environment.
I am with you man, this is fu(&ed
This mad destruction on our land must be better than Nuclear power stations.😂😂😂 Eventually they willrun out of land.😢 11:15
Can you do this for all the gas fracking and coal mine sites next?
why whats the problem
@@peterschaefer2946 Same thing but worse, environmental impacts from clearing land for massive canyon sized holes in the ground that aren't reverted back to their original state after extraction, release of excess methane from gas fracking sites, not to mention the potential for increase earthquake activity and poisoning of ground water
@@0ctatr0n it does not matter nobody gets out alive
And what about oil drilling on land and sea and the environmental damage caused?
@@peterschaefer2946 Do you mean like death in general or climate change?
A very well put together presentation. A little too emotive and for my liking though. I like facts. Steven you have done a power of work here and I would love to build on this to quantify the area of biodiversity being challenged and compare this to the area lost to housing along coastal Qld. Also you are silent on how to address climate change in Qld to achieve net zero. Big picture please. Will behind the meter expansion of roof top solar do the job to treble the power generation you mention or should we ....keep burning coal?
Net zero is a pipe dream.
Apart from there being no evidence of climate change in Queensland and unlikely to be any, Queensland is already beyond the mythical "Net Zero" through natural forces. Taking a 200 kilometre swathe starting at Iron Range on Cape York and just coming down to the NSW Border, you will find that the flora contained in the National Parks, Nature and Forestry Reserves and Native Title lands, absorbs more CO2 than is produced by human activity in Queensland. If you continue that swathe down and around to Cape Ottway in Victoria, there is more absorption than is produced by all human activity within Australia.
If you want to extend it further, the limestone coast in the SE of SA also absorbs great amounts of CO2, Not even needing to include the limestone rich soils in the Gulf Country.
Even the ABC Fact checkers had to concede that this was so. (But they didn't include these dense forestry areas and only the general flora spread across the country (political constraints).
Nothing wrong with coal, gas, oil, deisel, nuclear, we have plenty of each, if your worried about CO2 & the climate doomsday lie & net zero BS, then go nuclear for cleanest, cheapest energy, otherwise gas & coal are fine & cheap.
Nuclear energy is the future & it will bring new industries.
Renewables are not a National energy solution, they are a bad scam & will break the economy while making our energy grid weak, expensive & unreliable.
Labor is locked into the renewable scheme using our super funds, what happens to our super funds when it fails?
How can it make more sense economically and ecologically to build all those roads instead of using helicopters? (And airships in the future?)
No helicopter has been built able to carry the loads involved. Airships are very unwieldy and will never be useful for such loads.
Each blade is up to 50 metres long and requires wide radius roads with adjacent trees removed. They weight around 20 to 22 tonnes and so many local roads had to be reinforced and then along came the turbine in the nacelle. All of 200 tonnes. The segments of the tower are thick steel and weigh tens of tonnes each.
Helicopters will be used to string the power lines across the rugged valleys between the tall towers needed for the Grid connection.
The components are moved by rail and then oversized trucks. Large cranes then assemble them. Also they each need many tons of steel reinforced concrete or cement for the base of the tower. Even if you had large helicopters that could carry every one of those items needed, my guess is it would be way too expensive then. Also the generator part only last 15-20 years if they don't start on fire. The blades last less than that, it needs regular oil changes, etc... So they need to have access for constant maintenance. Not sure how the oil changes go, but I'm guessing you'd use tanker trucks which would be way less expensive than using helicopters all the time.
@@specialed6357 In Australia there is no rail for these sized loads. All oversized loads by road under special escort. Due to load limits on bridges or physical over size, often a circuitous route is needed to go out and back. That may be from the nearest Port where can be done. Port of Gladstone has a 200 tonne load limit on the bridge out of it, so large generator part for a nearby coal power station had to be landed at other Port further away.
The worlds largest helicopter, the Russian Mil Mi 26 has a maximum load capacity of 20 tonnes (an acquaintance worked with one on PNG), They cost $thousands per hour and very few outside of Russia. Not even able to lift one turbine blade at a time.
How much indigenous land of you bulldoze through, “oh no that’s that’s next weeks flag flying festival of marketing.”
so this is what they mean by green Energy? Destroying green forest.
Keep voting liberal folks that seems to be working. Remember you voted for this destruction, blame yourselves...
This is a Labor construct. Cannot blame the Liberals or the Nationals (in Queensland it is the LNP, neither Liberal nor National but the bastard child). The Australia wide push for the lunacy of Net Zero is coming 100% from Labor. Who is signing off on these approvals now? That's right, that simple minded Plebiscite. Queensland did not vote for this.
This is vandalism.
Where are the Aboriginal people?. Surprised they aren't going on about sacred sites and other stuff. Must be getting paid off to stay quiet .
Bit annoying two people talking, shocking to see this damage to the landscape, ugly Australia.
Most of the land you are showing seems to be farmland, not national parks. Would you be complaining if it was being covered by coal mines, gas fracking sites, oil wells, and oil refineries? You should state if you have any links to the oil and gas industries.
So if Australia at 1% of the world's emissions reaches the goal of zero, then why have we adjusted our way of life to appease the non-compliant? And why doesn't environmental laws apply to these monstrosities? Why are there no "sacred serpents" being destroyed but koalas, gliders and pristine environments that surely would be paying "first-occupyers" money for? What a fkn joke
Fairly sure this is the stupidest statement ever written on UA-cam... congrats ya tossa...
Very little of the proposed wind farm site shown are productive farmland. Open to closed forests with little to no agricultural use.
The areas shown are not near coal or gas country so not likely to happen. Gas fracking has a very small ground footprint and produces an energy source that can give power when ever and wherever needed. As can mined coal. Wind and solar cannot.
while i support your objections to wind farms in high conservation value forest (anything worthy of a National Park approval should be made one), you need to be very careful from overstating your case and making rookie errors in presenting information for the public about renewables. your emotive narration is tiring.
a number of your comments in the introduction are confused and/or misleading. i’ll take the time to explain, not that i expect you to take this on board, clearly you are motivated to use the most emotive language you ca, so technical errors probably going to be considered of little consequence for you. to me they make your arguments weaker and your authority suspect.
saying the national power grid is only 30% of national emissions and therefore we need to triple the power supply is confusing a number of interrelated issues and getting it all jumbled up.
you mention the variable exports from wind and solar generation. (you use the incorrect term “intermittent” the way a CC denier might) nature of wind and solar generation and say that means we need to triple the supply to accomodate that. well no, theres lots of gas generation that has Capacity Factors of 10% or less while modern wind farms are producing 50% CF and the potential to go to 60% and even 70% off shore exists. but it’s a pointless comparison in terms of land use impact because wind farms and gas generation are so incredibly different. the fossil gas generation facility is much smaller than a wind farm of the same nameplate capacity, and even allowing for a 10% CF is still going to be much much smaller than a similar capacity wind farm. but fossil gas now comes from fracking fields where potent methane leaks at wells, active or capped, and migratory emissions happen at rivers and other places. if you don’t like wind farms go take a look at fracking fields and the health impacts on humans and animals. i worked on a film over ten years ago documenting the toxic impacts on ground water and the range of health impacts to locals. many cases of farmers closing down operations u to ground water contamination in USA too.
the other thing you said about renewables needing “three times” the capacity (presumably of fossil fuels generation assets) was that the power sector is only 30% of emissions. you’re correct in saying that demand will grow to accomodate fuel switching but make the same mistake many fossil fuel defenders make thinking that fuel switching requires same energy in BTUs from renewables as from fossils. no, very often 2/3 of the energy from fossils is wasted as waste heat from the process. so we only need to provide the energy doing work with renewables, not the waste heat. and heat pumps extract energy from the air at a ratio of up to 5 to 1, or 4 units of free energy for each unit of RE electrical energy supplied to the pump.
many of the wind farms you describe are on previously cleared land. vast majority in fact. you don’t mention the environmental destruction of land clearing, and QLD was the last place to engage in that on a massive scale for livestock operations.
livestock is one of the most climate destructive uses we can put land to and rewilding it would be preferable.
Sorry i didnt go back to the posters commentary
You are slightly right in one critique of the introduction but there could be more deconstruction of your comments but I've only time for one quick comment for within your comment.
In a case on the Queensland Darling Downs where natural gas drilling and harvesting was blamed of apparent methane emission bubbling up in a nearby River and billabong. These were completely unrelated to any gas drilling activity but totally natural fermentation of vegetable matter in the silt on the bottoms of the water courses.
In that area a number of foreign activists arrived to create an antiNG rhetoric for political gain.
And sorry, but no. almost none of the proposed Queensland wind farms are on previously cleared land. Much of that is in semi-open to closed natural forests. The roads up the mountain ridge have been created specifically for the special needs of the transport bringing in the bulky wind farm components.
The reason they knew 3 times the required amount of Solar & wind is because of the intermittency & variation of sun & wind. In SA recently production was down to 10% on a cold cloudy day meaning they had to import or generate energy with deisel to make up the 90% deficit of power needed, hence they oversize the farms capacity in hope of getting enough power, ut this does not always work and they still need battery, hydro &/or deisel, coal or gas for backup, so why have a flimsy, unreliable & not for purpose national renewable energy system when we still need the original or better infrastructure to generate enough power when the weather doesn’t want to play golf?
You don’t mention battery storage to even out demand peaks and troughs. Why? Is it because it is inconvenient to tell the truth? Also, the emotive language used - smashed, destroyed, blasted, etc. and the choral and harp music? What is that all about?
Which battery storage? The one which doesn't exist? The building of which requires massive open mining and causes massive abuses of human rights, costs far too much to be financially viable, and produces massive amounts of problematic waste?
That's how roads are built: blasting, smashing, destroying of the existing forest/nature. You need to learn some basics of how the world works.
I'm sure you prefer to listen to satanic music but you're in the minority.
@@pistonburner6448 ha. Ha. Ha. Says pistonburner. So you’re not really bothered about environmental destruction as long as you get your coal, oil, petrol and diesel and burn it in your giant cigarette - causing cancers - for little children and small pets. Just when you think it is might stop oil burning.
No battery or other energy storage system presently exists that can give the smoothing capacity that a wind farm requires. When many wind farms in Australia have been shown to go negative for periods greater than 24 hours, this is beyond even a large scale flow battery. If you cannot see the idiocy of what is being done with this widespread rape of the country for wind farms, you must be somewhat blind and closed mind.
Steve where have you been for the past 30 years for all of the extraction of fossil fuels? If you actually care for these spaces you would know that increases in temperature is the biggest threat.
Australia CO2 production per year = 466 million tons (from au.gov)
CO2 required to increase global temperature by one degree = 1 million million tons (IPCC).
Therefore temperature reduction if Australia achieves NetZero = 0.0005 degrees C per year.
A ten year old child could work this out - and they will.
I’ll leave you to explain the carnage you’ve caused when they ask; “why?”.
@@Hickalum you do realise that it's a cumulative thing in the carbon cycle right? And it's not only emissions from Australia that count?
Biggest threat to what, if we destroy everything in nature in the quest to supposedly save nature. Thank you for at least admitting green energy isn't any better (lithium open pit mining which also poisons the land, chopping down the rain forest to do the poisonous open pit mining there as well now, chopping down forests for solar and wind, replacing vegetation and farm land with solar and wind, etc...) is no different than the old ways. But at least the temperature will be unnoticeabley lower as we continue to warm up to normal temperatures as we continue to exit the ice age.
I have noticed the pattern, with all the destruction of nature, I now believe part of their goal is strip away earth's natural ability to reduce Co2 so it rises and then they'll claim see, the levels are getting higher, we have to do even more. Not to mention the weekly increase of coal power plants in china and india polluting big time as well. Though at least china is also now building nuclear powered container ships which is the safest form of energy production. Unlike the stupid western nations that are abandoning very safe nuclear power for nature destroying green energy methods which again shows their goal isn't to save the planet but destroy it further. Not to mention E.V.s not being an answer cause in order to replace fossil fuel vehicles, and ignoring the fact that there isn't enough lithium in the world, just the amount of copper alone that would be needed is more than the entire total that mankind has ever mined so far. So we need to massively ramp up copper mining but the tree huggers always protest to have mines shut down and block new ones from opening. I'd say tree hugger types need to get their priorities straight of whether they want E.V.s or oil, but yet another pattern I'm noticing is only the elites will be allowed to drive in the future. The rest of us plebs will be forced to become Amish or cavemen. Which is where "You'll own nothing and be happy" comes into play along with their we need to greatly reduce the world population by billions of "the useless eaters".
Growing up we used to plant trees and have tree city designations. I physically planted by hand many acres (over 10 acres at least) of seedlings over several summers in the late 80's early 90's that are now at least 50 feet or more. Then I see outskirts of toronto canada clear cutting everywhere to build neighborhoods that are each acres and even miles huge to build what they call "mc mansions" for rich people. If they are going to kill off billions, what are they waiting for? Till after they finish destroying the earth apparently. These are the same people and governments that came from big oil. Big oil is also themselves doing green energy as well. These elites are just switching over their methods of plumaging to green energy. It has nothing to do with saving the planet. They are also get rich quick scammers getting tax payer government money to start up these really big green energy startups and then filing bankruptcy after walking away with multi millions and billions richer. Like that solar scam president barack obama "yo momma" supported while he was president for one example.
What increase in temperature? The hard fact is that the increase in temperature actually lags the apparent increase in CO2 levels. Whatever is causing the claimed increases in temperature it isn't the gases in the atmosphere.
Australia would not be adversely effected by the predicted 2 degree increase in real terms.
The so called record increase in the European summer temperatures last year turned out to be a 100th of a degree. Not 1 degree or even a tenth of a degree. It was hidden behind the hysterical rhetoric from the head of the UN who is only in it to protect his empire.
The "oceans are boiling"! Simply idiotic.
Also green energy in all it's form still uses oil. For example look into how much oil the wind generators use. They have a large tank of it inside them, I forget how much They even need the oil changed just like a vehicle does. It also needs grease and or transmission like fluid. E.V.s are full of plastics made from oil. Also they still need grease and fluids. Solar panels, etc... So even with 100% green energy, oil isn't going away for at least decades to come. At the rate they are shuting down farming and converting farmland, we'll starve before plant based plastics take over. Very soon the green energy grift, population sustainability with green energy, shutting down farming and self inflicted famine, ramping up of destroying nature, etc... are all going to come to a head in revolts. It will be the haves, and have nots all over again. Elites vs. Plebs.
Needs 1) a moratorium, and 2) somebody getting those 'investors' interested in some off-shore down-wind turbine designs (cheaper longer lasting for same power).