AFR 19.1.23 H. Van Leeuwen said"Davos, Switzerland| Even...

AFR 19.1.23 H. Van Leeuwen said

"Davos, Switzerland| Even sun-abundant Australia faces a LONG ROAD (my emphases) to large-scale solar power generation, Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm has warned, saying “we’re fooling ourselves a little bit on the timeline”.

Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm. Bloomberg
Speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos on Wednesday, Mr Stausholm said Rio Tinto’seffort to shift to large-scale renewable energy sources at its Australian aluminium smelterswas “not that easy, and it actually takes a lot of time”.

“People say, ‘Oh Australia, perfect, lots of sun, lots of space’. It’s not that easy,” he said.

“You actually first have to acquire the land, you have to get working with Indigenous people, you have to go through the cultural clearance of sites, etcetera.

“We’re used to big sites in mining, but quite frankly mining sites are small compared to the scale of these parks; and the world has not really done this at scale yet".

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Fossil fuels, for cheap, reliable, baseload power will be required for a very long time- probably , IMO, many decades.