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Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

Reply #855 –
Quote from: PaulP – on
Pat, I posed a pretty simple question, and I'll pose it one last time : can you point me to websites, articles, individuals, organizations etc. that in your opinion, provide unbiased, real world information on Australia's future energy needs ?

I see you've triggered LP.
I know what thats like.  ;)

Your request albeit a simple one to ask, is not a simple one to provide.

As suggested earlier, everyone has an agenda so an unbiased opinion is a bit of a unicorn.

The best thing you can do is do your own research.
LP's excessive response in regards to numbers re solar, does show you some insight into what you would want to look at for yourself.
That is, how much power can the average house generate with solar?
How much power does the average house use?
How many of these average houses actually produce power with solar?

When you run simple figures like that, expand it out, you see some of the media/politically presented figures don't add up.

Expand that out to non-residential areas like commercial and industrial it becomes a joke.

Take that a step further and work out how much power is required to get the elements/components out of the ground, across the globe and to your house. How green is it and how much power are we really saving?

I've got no issues with people doing their thing and getting solar. I had solar on my last property and am contemplating it on mine now.....but thats not to save the world, just reduce my energy bill.

Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

Reply #856 –
If this debate makes someone feel depressed, hopeless or disillusioned it not the fault of the topic, the right emotion to feel would be anger at how you're being grifted for profit with no real hope of achieving a solution from any one strategy.

We need orders of magnitude more emissions reduction, every strategy should be running in parallel.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"