Roberta9 MINUTES AGOThere['s absolutely no need for Australians to pay more for energy. The only reason is this mad frolic towards net zero which is a ridiculous and unachievable pursuit. It's a con which is all about creating a new industry that's all about making some very wealthy people even wealthier and appeasing the UN. Why are we're told we must stop using coal which has always given us cheap electricity but it's perfectly okay to send it to China so they can use it to provide cheap energy for their people and manufacturing industries. We mugs have to sit by and pay enormous energy bills and watch our own industries go down the gurgler.Matilda43 MINUTES AGOOver the next twenty years this mindless transition will bankrupt Australia.
We are never told the true costs of rearranging all the transmission infrastructure and replacing vast amounts of short-lived equipment. We will pay dearly for a mass delusion that we can improve the climate by spending trillions on an inferior duplicate energy system.Bill45 MINUTES AGO#MuggedByReality…….
Labour have always lied on this.
We need more corporates like this guy coming out and serving up the ugly truth about what is coming down the line at us all - thx to Bowen, Albo and Crew….
Wake up Australia……Lawrence52 MINUTES AGOIf governments had just left our old system in place we would still have cheap and reliable energy. When governments get involved they invariably screw it up. After 30 years and trillions of dollars no one, no one has shown definitively that CO2 causes warming but they can show it increases crop production and greening of deserts. It is just another example of why governments cannot be trusted and why free speech to challenge bad ideas is essential.Macra54 MINUTES AGOJeff I think many are understanding of the ‘reality’. It’s the Govt that has to wake up.Papboer1 HOUR AGOFinally some commonsense!. Unlike great investment programs of the past (e.g. the railways that replaced the relatively new canal systems), the investment in net zero energy systems does not give us better energy, or more convenient energy, or certainly not cheaper energy. Therefore its effect will be to make us poorer.Walter1 HOUR AGODo Bowen and this activist government, really believe that consumers and businesses, will be able and willing to keep paying unlimited price increases for energy?raymond1 HOUR AGOBring back coal-powered power! Our bit ain't a hill of beans compared to China and India et al.CM1 HOUR AGOCan someone please explain how the Ukrain war can impact energy prices in Australia?Greg1 HOUR AGOPaying even more for energy?
We’re one of the most energy-rich nations on the planet!
How can this be?Bert1 HOUR AGOWe're governed by idiots.
Albanese, Bowen, et al are fools, and extraordinarily dishonest.Philip1 HOUR AGOJeff is the only person telling the truth! We need other energy supply CEO’s to also tell the truth. Origin, AGL, and Energy Australia CEO’s?Donald2 HOURS AGOWell said Jeff Dimery. The fantasists won’t listen, of course. They think renewables are cheaper than coal and gas.theotherperspective2 HOURS AGOSeriously? No hidden/alternative agenda from Alinta in this then (NOT).Kathryn2 HOURS AGOPower bills have, however, surged in recent years amid a global energy crunch ignited by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not responsible for Australia's ongoing energy crunch. Government can take full responsibility for this; if supply exceeded demand we would not be in this disaster.
You don't have to be that smart to know that no matter how much money you throw at it wind/solar/batteries will never provide us with abundant affordable energy.John of the Gangoni Nation2 HOURS AGOSurely this can't be true, Airbus and his mob have been telling us that power prices would drop!Peter3 HOURS AGOI think I have to agree with Chris Bowen in that renewables are the cheapest form of power.
Unfortunately, Chris, one must add that the cheaper power is really only from 10.00am to 3.00pm when no one is home in many instances and no one is cooking, showering or heating! The public are now being alerted to this through smart meters where the rubber is really hitting the road. Householders are receiving electricity bills that they cannot pay as minimal rates apply during 10.00am to 3.00pm but skyrocket for the remainder of the day/night.
Cost of living handouts to the poor will not wash with middle class Australians who are being taken to the cleaners.John1 HOUR AGO(Edited)The 10.00am to 3.00pm time is not correct.
Wind turbines operate with wind at speeds of approx. 15 kmh to 80 kmh after which they shut down.
Wind turbines use electricity from the grid, which is not accounted for in their output figures.
Other electricity generating plants (coal, gas, thermal, hydro, nuclear) use their own electricity and the difference between the amount they generate and the amount delivered to the grid is readily determined.
Overseas studies show a wind turbine is only generating power for approx 25% - 30% of the time.
Complete waste of money.Jennie3 HOURS AGO(Edited)No surprise that energy prices will continue rising, putting paid to the assertion that renewables are the cheapest form of energy. Subsidy upon subsidy, so opaque that the true cost is never revealed. Yet Greg Combet let the cat out of the bag at the Press Club saying the cost of the transition would be ‘hundreds of billions’! The capacity investment scheme is part of the largesse - by underwriting investments in future renewable projects, transferring risk to the taxpayer. Then there’s the secret deals to keep coal power stations open.And the duplicate 10.000 km of transmission. No wonder in the lucky country the queues of energy poverty keep growing.Brian3 HOURS AGOWhy is John Dimery so anti nuclear, you would think with his vast knowledge on the energy subject he would embrace it? Hard to know who to listen to for correct information on the subject.Alan3 HOURS AGOLook more closely at where and how, 'guarantees' his bread is buttered. Al49erAndrew3 HOURS AGOAnd here I was thinking renewables were next to free and a gift from the pixies in the bottom of the garden.Splash3 HOURS AGOAlbo and his incompetent bunch will not be happy…good. The truth is coming out now - if 'green' energy is wanted, then it has to be nuclear…thousands upon thousands of windmills and thousand upon thousands of solar panels covering the landscape is not a solution but a money grabbing effort by vested interests and of course, the Chinese - who are still building coal-fired generators. I can't believe how the country is destroying itself based on 1.5% of the world's total carbon emissions - less than China and India's annual increase. Who are we really kidding?
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