China, India and Russia have collectively over 4,000 coal based electric power generation stations and are building hundreds more. If Australia builds or doesn't build 3 or 4 new coal powered stations is utterly irrelevant to the man-made CO2 argument. That's the reality.

@kimmogensen4888

5 жыл бұрын

Air pollution from coal kills thousands a year, natural gas is far better it emits only a few of the particles that cause cardiovascular disease, etc. it also makes much less co2, but as you write if China and india are building hundreds more new coal powered stations it probably has little significance with co2.

@chatteyj

5 жыл бұрын

Just build nuclear its better than coal and oil even and its cleaner and safer and has very little emissions (if you care about that). Nuclear is the future and thorium powered nuclear is the future of nuclear.

@zenden6564

5 жыл бұрын

@@chatteyj - no argument from me. But we've stopped building any new base-load power stations for decades, that's the concern with dramatic per capita population growth. Australia is currently reviewing its prohibition on the Nuclear power option. If it gets endorsed and if it can get bi-partisan support, that is a game changer.

@truthdownunder1956

5 жыл бұрын

What do plants and trees need to live? You can google it.... If you are so ignorant and only listen to your controller's.. there is no proof that CO2 is warming up the world or killing people...

@Harold_Flite

5 жыл бұрын

@@kimmogensen4888 the deaths are happening in shithole countries were they could care less about thier own...meanwhile in Australia, people are NOT dying on mass from these plants..yes, I know there have been a few cases, but the vast majority is in careless countries.

I wouldn’t watch if you were the abc Peta

@davidclarke393

5 жыл бұрын

lol

There will be routs when government monies are involved. Alas the government actually doesn't have money. This money comes from the citizenry.

@joedennehy386

5 жыл бұрын

did you mean to say Rorts?

RENEWABLES NEED TO STAND ON ITS OWN TWO FEET. Tax payers should not be funding a climate change hoax through subsidies. If there is genuine demand for renewables then the market will decide that, not interference from government trying to raise taxes through carbon credit taxes.

@chrisgriffiths2533

5 жыл бұрын

Alasdair, Unfortunately you Should be Right. However this Principle Was Not Used when All Our Coal Power Stations along with Their Coal Mines were Built. Hence The Established Coal Electrical System has a Massive Advantage and Head Start.

@robertaus8420

5 жыл бұрын

Alasdair McBryde completely agree with you look at the car industry it was subsidised for many years and once the government funding stopped it all collapsed.

@chrisgriffiths2533

5 жыл бұрын

@@robertaus8420 Robert, Please Don't Confuse a Small Local Car Market with the Importance of Converting Our Energy Systems to Far Superior Solar. Mate We Have Got a Lot of Sunshine and Heat, We Must Back the Change Over to Renewables.

@alasdairmcbryde7573

5 жыл бұрын

@@robertaus8420 Elon Musk is still burning through a billion a quarter and has not shown a profit yet ... people can't afford them and their range is abysmal. You never hear them talking about the infrastructure costs as well which tax payers will have to fund. In Australia 40% of the price of fuel is government tax and that does not include the 10% GST on top of that. Can you imagine us paying the fuel tax and then raising more tax to pay for charging station infrastructure for electric cars.

@hennieodendaal5087

5 жыл бұрын

fossil fuels get MASSIVE subsidies and loans without securities

Brilliant, well said,not a single word wasted. Thanks peta

@twalgoolan4249

4 жыл бұрын

Yes Peta is true to form. Can imagine her with the same attitude during the original discussion about the deleterious effects of asbestos. She and Tony would be ridiculing the science, and assert that evil people were just trying to make a fortune out of cement sheeting.

We desperately need a Sky/Fox news type alternative in Canada because the CBC is damaging our country in a profound way.

@nihilistic7840

5 жыл бұрын

We need to give up on msm. I know you Tube going too, but bitchute /other channels need to be developed. Rebel is s great Canadian and international news channel. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dKCasbOclNHeo8o.html

@slappy8941

5 жыл бұрын

Fox isn't nearly as honest and direct as Sky, and is pretty much nothing more than establishment propaganda, just from a different perspective.

@toorimakun

5 жыл бұрын

The rebel media?

@michaelfoye1135

5 жыл бұрын

You have Rebel Media.

@kooringagnd

5 жыл бұрын

Rebel media have an android app, easy to use and stable. U.N. is a gigantic gravy train second only to FIFA.

Nucular is the best and most efficient power generation period

@harryknox3962

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Gary, Although Nuclear is a great source of power, Uranium itself is a finite resource and there are massive amounts of CO2 produced in the construction of these plants. Throughout the life of a coal power station it produces 820 g of CO2 per kWh, nuclear produces around 200 g per kWh whilst solar is currently down to 42 g. The construction of these plants can also take up to 15 years from first thought to fir Watt of power being produced and that is the deadline of the earth reaching the point of no return in global warming which these plants cannot offset. It just doesn't make sense to build nuclear in Australia, even the globally with the plummeting prices of solar PV and battery storage technology.

@rogergibbs2937

5 жыл бұрын

@@harryknox3962 Nothing lasts forever, except perhaps the constant stream of BS from the dooms day prophets. The religion of AGW is so firmly entrenched it will never die. Too bad it will never do a damn bit of good for a reliable power supply.

@richb313

5 жыл бұрын

@@harryknox3962 No matter the source of power construction still needs to happen so that argument is moot. Uranium is a fixed resource just like Oil, Coal and Natural Gas. The reserves are woefully under reported. No matter the cost reduction of Solar Panels they still have a limited life span. The Manufacture of these panels is so problematic that the Total Environmental Impact is such that we would be better off with limited production for specialized uses. No, when dealing with providing power to nations which has to meet the basic requirement of Dependability or Power when it is demanded and Economic Viability ALL Renewable sources not only fall short but are incapable of meeting those requirements by their very nature.

@kaypgee

5 жыл бұрын

gary rose absolutely. Plenty of safe space to isolate nuclear plant risks

@garyrose9805

5 жыл бұрын

Kay Gee it’s got the highest safety record! Yep people have died with solar and wind??? It’s actually really really hard to cause a reactor issue! U could burn the thing to ashes and not have one

When renewables can stand alone without subsidies, and can supply base load power, at a reasonable cost to the end user, only then will you convince me renewables are good for us. The whole thing is a sick joke. Some interesting figures from a climate change expert. CO2 in atmosphere Just did the numbers 0.4% of atmosphere is CO2 (fact) 3% of the above = 0.012% human input 1.3% of above human input from Oz = 0.000156% Please can someone explain to me why in hells name should we be worried. Nothing we do will change a damn thing.

@geoffgriffiths3381

5 жыл бұрын

People like you have to be lied to about climate change to stop you polluting and killing the humans, not just by CO2 which acidifies the ocean, but all the highly toxic chemicals.

@rogergibbs2937

5 жыл бұрын

@@geoffgriffiths3381 Are you for real???

@sanxcoltd

5 жыл бұрын

Hi there Roger, I'll try my best to explain why we should be worried. 1) oil will run out in 51 years, natural gas in 53, and coal in 114. (BP statistical review of energy 2016). So if we continue this trajectory and do nothing about it, society will collapse (sounds dramatic but it is a reality). It is a global responsibility to ensure that we successfully change our source of energy so that human civilisation can continue. 2) 0.012% seems negligible but the scientist is saying it is significant enough to cause a visible change in our environment. Similarly, 2 drops of mercury (Hg) seems negligible but in reality, it can poison and kill an adult human. So we should be worried that such a small amount of added CO2 can cause an imbalance that is changing entire ecosystems. But whether or not if you believe in climate change or not, we cannot neglect that fossil fuels are finite and we really need to start looking at the options and solutions. 20 years ago we can say that this is a matter for the Australians that are not yet born. Fast forward to the present, some of those Australians are now born.

@rogergibbs2937

5 жыл бұрын

@@sanxcoltd Yes I do believe in climate change, but not ACC, the climate has always changed and will continue to do so regardless of what we humans do. Some of what you have written I have to agree with, IE the finite supplies of oil and coal, although I doubt the timeline you have given, and don't forget fresh water. My question is what do we do in the mean time. Solar and wind are a joke as far as base load power supply. Nuclear is an option, but it will never happen, at least not in my life time. Thorium seem possible, but it comes with its own problems. Hydro is good, but we haven't enough areas that can support it. Besides the greens will jump all over anyone that upsets nature. Wave generation has proven to be a bust. Burning rubbish as is done in some European countries is possible, but can you imagine that happening. Electric cars have to get their power from somewhere, and their cost is prohibitive. My biggest fear is if the climate swings the other way and we go into a mini ice age. It has done it before and will do it again We would be starving before we knew it. So my friend I pass the ball back to you. Have I missed something?

@sanxcoltd

5 жыл бұрын

@@rogergibbs2937 Thanks for replying, and that is a fair point. I completely agree with everything you just said. I can honestly tell you that I don't have a clear answer to your question. But solutions with barriers that I think can be removed are solar, wind and nuclear. I think instead of doing nothing we need to at least invest in solar and wind, because there is definitely potential to further develop the technology, especially with batteries. Currently, it's flimsy, unreliable and a joke as you said, but I think its a solution that has to be further developed to be taken seriously. Nuclear, as you said, is a potential option, but there are legislative barriers that I think can be removed if there was some form of change in the public's opinion about it. But as I said, I don't have the answer but I honestly hope the government has a plan to transition Australia's energy source, whatever it is, instead of relying on finite fossil fuels. Also here's my source for the timeline I have given. oilproduction.net/files/especial-BP/bp-statistical-review-of-world-energy-2016-full-report.pdf

EVEN WHEN I WAS A LEFTY I WOULD SOMETIME'S BLUSH AT HOW BIASED THE ABC WAS ...

@dfor50

5 жыл бұрын

Like how they burst into song when Kerryn Phelps won Turnbulls seat from the conservatives. She had it all - female, gay, green and left wing.

@joedennehy386

5 жыл бұрын

do you mean biased?

@robot336

5 жыл бұрын

@@joedennehy386 YES I MEAN BIAS ..LOL

@gerttjildsen5612

4 жыл бұрын

RO BOT I`m so glad that you have left the dark side:-)

The Economist published an article about 2016 which included a figure for combined international subsidy of renewables. Then, it stood at US$800 billion. It is certainly higher now.

@joedennehy386

5 жыл бұрын

over a trillion now! ye gods

@chrisgriffiths2533

5 жыл бұрын

Chris, Your Figure is possible Correct. But it is an "Combined International" Amount. By Contrast the Annual Australian Economy is Two Trillion. So 800 Billion is Actually a Small Figure. Also Recommend you find Out the Global Size of the Annual Fossil Fuel Earnings, Very Big Number This. 800 Trillion? Maybe more.

It was a real welcome surprise to be able to pick up the Sky News channel after moving to a rural area. It allows me to watch TV again.

Only because the energy companies are able to buy it of the provider with the panels for almost bugger all. All the while onselling for around a 400% proffit.

Oh wow... real news. Fastastic!

Absolutely hit the nail bang on the head. Thanks Peta and Sky.

Luv ya Sky!

Credlin for PM after Morrison.. A true female leader the country can get behind.

More people should install renewable energy that reduces the need for grid energy instead of promote it.

Stop selling them Your coal...sell them solar and wind.

@gregdean2012

5 жыл бұрын

They want reliable power ! Will sell coal or they get it elsewhere .

@joedennehy386

5 жыл бұрын

And if it really is a climate EMERGENCY cancel all flights, stop runway extensions, take all buses off the road, except electric ones, restrict driving, shut down all coal power plants, stop tourism, its an emergency! we are all going to die!. Except of course we are not. # enough climate bullshit yet.?

Interesting I got an advertisement to buy solar panels before this video.

China is dropping their emissions. once they started making PV panels, the cost has come so much that it is cheaper to have a PV farm than to run a generator. here is a fun fact, shade and insulation offer lower costs and lifetime benefits. NOT ONE PENNY should be handed over to other countries or the UN. EVERY PENNY should be kept at home and used to manufacture, create and install solutions ! the solution is not fees, but results.

Same thing would happen to electric cars without government subsidys to.

Solar panels have a design life of 25+ yr, and are typically warranted for 20 yr. How is that a "short lifespan" that requires "regular replacement"?

Nothing about the thousands of hectares of arable land that get destroyed because of coal mining that will never be recovered ? Thousands more acres of ash pits ? Fresh water getting spoiled ? So tell me about the no subsidies for coal.

without the STC Rebate from the Federal Government PV Solar would drop like shit of a shovel, and as it is, it drops every year by 3-400 Dollars, whole thing is nuts your limited to the size system on your home limited energy export the list goes on and the crap installers have to go threw in order to supply the service, it would be quicker to get a pilot's licence, commonsense use to be the way forward now its just bureaucracy.

Thank you for the truth.

A two-megawatt wind turbine weighs about 250 tonnes, including the tower, nacelle, rotor and blades. Globally, it takes about half a tonne of coal to make a tonne of steel. Add another 25 tonnes of coal for making the cement and you’re talking 150 tonnes of coal per turbine. Now if we are to build 350,000 wind turbines a year (or a smaller number of bigger ones), just to keep up with increasing energy demand, that will require 50 million tonnes of coal a year. That’s about half the EU’s hard coal-mining output.

It takes more than 200 tonnes of metallurgical coal to produce one wind turbine.

Of course. Here in UK we are paying for it in our energy bills to subsidise renewables which generates a tiny percentage of our power.

The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth! Onya Peta 👍

If it was WORTH anything, Private investors would be climbing over each other to invest. This shows it's a LOSING situation. Both Wing and Solar

Absolutely yes! THIS is why I watch, listen and take notice of Sky News Australia.

One of the UN's top climate officials, German economist Ottmar Edenhofer, acknowledged in 2011, that "one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy". There you have it folks!

As a homeowner I will never put solar on my roof too expensive ...I use regular electricity and my bills are cheaper than the man next-door with solar by $1800 a year...

Shame they didn't put up any evidential links for the facts she's stating

Also how are the used solar panels going to be recycled.

@hugehappygrin

4 жыл бұрын

They're not, and can't be.

In 2017 Australia was the 14th worst emitter in the world per capita (i.e. per person). Our emissions per capita have increased 46.1% from our 1990 levels. I'm not sure where Peta is getting her figures from but they appear erroneous.

Australia is sitting on a gold mine of Thorium you have more thorium than nearly all countries, once thorium powered nuclear power is developed by India which won't be long you guys will have all the clean energy you need.

@stuartfoster7582

5 жыл бұрын

True Words !

Don't forget to remind Ozzies that those renewable sources cannot be recycled, and that the solar panels are almost as toxic as nuclear waste, and just as difficult to store(hide.)

We should be working on getting out of the UN altogether, getting a few new coal fired generators up and running as well as seriously investigating nuclear.

Why sky news au and uk are so different?

Change ABC for CBC and we pretty much hear (or don't hear) the same slop.

So now people won't consider upgrading to alternative energy if the government is removed from the equation?! We need to bring the cost of alternative energy down to affordable levels and alternative energy is not good without some kind of storage, if the battery is too expensive, try hydrogen electrolysis and fuel cells to store electricity for those no wind and no sun times.

Of course it does. The whole exercise is one of indirect taxation.

We need to produce all solar panels, wind tribunes, and batteries here in Australia. It will create lots of manufacturing job that is what the country needs! In some industries, manufacturing should be made here. We cannot buy everything from overseas and open up more restaurants or coffee shops.

Man's replenishment of depleted CO2 is a boon to the earth. We might even get a little warming out of it and delay the return of the ice sheets.

There are $29 Billion dollars worth of subsidies for the fossil fuel industry in Australia (the global value is in the trillions). Meanwhile, the total amount of 'renewable' subsidies in Australia is around $2.8 Billion.

@joedennehy386

5 жыл бұрын

Bull shit, Fossil fuel is taxed, Solar and wind is not taxed and is subsidised, the latest German windfarm at sea is subsidised 66c per KWH, the Usa consumer pays retail an average of 14c per KWH, Australia now 33c and in New Zealand 30C. Please read more

No sign of bias here! Bloody hell it might as well be the LNP sation.

I have a hard time listening to this video, when Australia has just experienced one of the hottest summers on record. Yes, Australia may have decreased its CO2 per person, but it was the highest CO2 producer in the world. It wouldn't be hard. No kidding solar installations dropped when subsidies dropped in the UK. Drop subsidies for anything, and sales will drop. That doesn't mean solar isn't a good idea. Yes, China is driving the world off a CO2 cliff--does that mean Australia should help push on the accelerator? This is a pretty disingenuous video. Bad show.

Meanwhile to China Australia will export 67 billion Australian dollars ($47.8 billion) of coal in fiscal 2018, compared with AU$63.8 billion for iron ore, according to the "Resources and Energy Quarterly" report for December published by the country's Department of Industry, Innovation and Science.

Collapse of fossil fuel based power stations too, without subsidies.

Not if individuals still adopt/take up solar

As Trump just said in his G20 conference - renewables need huge subsidies. Wind doesn't cut it.

Oil, coal and hydro were also subsidised, in their early days, so that is not a credible argument against renewable. While renewables are cheep to build, and provide good returns to investors, their energy is unreliable and initially expensive for the consumer. The main problem with solar and wind is it can't provide reliable supply unless you invest in battery storage, create mega structures "economies of scale" and upgrade the transmission infrastructure to a decentralised smart grid, and unless governments put up the money, we end users will pay a shitload over the next two decades. The best solution maybe nuclear if subsidised. There is no free lunch whichever way we go. The pollies have made a mess of it. My solution would be a buyback of the grid and a government upgrade and leave it to the private sector to do the energy supply to the grid from whatever source and the private sector to retail to customers and do the battery storage. A subsidised National Power Grid "NBN Power". The options are limited in this space.

Australia would do well with 25 AP1000s.

If something needs substitutes you have to ask why

GEOTHERMAL is THE answer. It is all underground (it will still operate during any storm) and operates 24\7\365. You can have small systems for each house or large systems that generate electricity for thousands of homes - you can then use the hot water to run huge greenhouses, dry wet grain, dry timber etc. prior to re-injection in your loop system Also geothermal has been operating in MANY countries for 40-50 YEARS. Many of these systems have run for decades with little to no maintenance. I am in Canada and we are just starting to build large electricity generators, but we do have many smaller individual home systems - again some of these have operated for DECADES.

Didn't know that sky news in Australia are actual news. Good on you Australia.

I've got a device that should do the trick. One device can be used to start others. I have prototypes, but need lightning to hit one in order to get frictionless electromaglev bearings activated. I've had it for 40+ years, but never caught a lightning bolt, and have endured 40+ years of people who've never worked on it, tell me why it won't work

As a European, I can only follow Sky News Australia via the internet. But I enjoy it.

But if they wish, wish, wish ever harder surely that'll overcome all the problems.

You’re great at buzz words. If we don’t transition to renewables we’re all fucked.

Right On!

Hey, Iv'e got an idea! Why not build lots of new coal fired power stations in Australia and capture the exhaust and use that in enclosed giant greenhouses to feed the food producing plants. Way more than Australia needs to we can export fresh Australian produce to hungry people around the World! Have far too many power generation stations than we need, so run a really big power cable into the heart of Europe and sell our electricity to the Europeans! Wouldn't that be great for our balance of payments! Oh, I forgot, this Australia, we are not allowed to do things like that..........

atomic energy or maybe biogas( methane) may get Australia of coal, air pollution from coal kills thousands a year.

@joedennehy386

5 жыл бұрын

Good luck getting nuclear energy past Greenpeace or any greens, you are right but they don't want to save the planet so much as having us all out of cars and driving a cart pulled by an ox and knitting fair trade bicycles out of beard trimmings and twigs.

Have been solar powered off grid for 37 years, the climate change /warming BS has helped me greatly. 75watt panels were originally $720 each, 210watt panels are now about $200 each. It's an attitude change only to go off grid these days, once upon a time you had to be very dedicated or very wealthy.

The reason it needs subsidies is because the energy market is not set for the consumer . Why does the domestic consumer pay double to buy electric from an energy company and can only sell it for half the price or less to the grid it's because governments around the world don't want the public to have virtually free energy . If it was up to me there would be no subsidies for an energy . Gas is subsidised by the tax payer . They all are . If they had to compete equally renewables would win due to the long term very low maintenance costs . Every single renewable system should be sold with battery back up . Within 10 years energy would be virtually free .

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i never watch the a b c any more or vote labur was a life long voter and watcher it started to make me sick

The only « renewable energy » worth while keeping and further developing is hydro electric electricity production. The faster we scrap all the others, the better !

Refreshing!

i just want to know why it costs 50 dollars a month just to be connected to the electricity grid.even if you dont use any power. i understand the poles and wires have to be maintained,but i dont see anybody constantly working on them.so if there were 4 million electricity users in sydney that would equal 200 million dollars a month for what?the whole power supply industry is a massive con job

@terryquarton3864

3 жыл бұрын

They were investing it into the maintenance of their coal fired power plants ah ah that why they are being shut down

Imagine, as the sun sets, Australia closes for business. Not to fear, China is making what you need. Anyone for batteries and flashlights? Any study for the placement of renewable sources of energy should include all life cycle costs: manufacture, placement, maintenance, removal, and recycling the old equipment. We have to acknowledge the impact of mining, transport, and disposal will have on the environment. Then, no amount of subsidy would prove in renewables over natural gas or nuclear, the next cleanest, and reliable, alternatives. The UN is the best example of overreach in bureaucracy. Nations should defund all but negotiations in lieu of war. All countries would have much more capital to spend on developing and deploying the cleanest, most reliable, energy sources.

Just filled my truck with dianasour bones.

TRUTH!!!

Do a segment on the manufacturing of the battery’s used to store the energy and how poisonous it is to the atmosphere and planet please and the masses will be shocked and the other channels will have to make debunk vids showing there bias

Mneh, growth of anything collapses without subsidies. How do you think the coal industry, coal fired power stations and infrastructure got built except with massive government subsidies? There's currently billions of $$$s of subsidies - indirect ones - going to coal, so I think that argument is not a very strong one if you want to argue against renewables. Companies in their early stages are often not profitable either. They require investment in the form of share floats etc. Then once they get established then they start making money. So they also require subsidies. Renewables is overall cheaper than any other form of generation of electricity ONCE ESTABLISHED. That's pretty clear and obvious.

Australians need to read a book called Burned by Sam Mcbride : Re Northern Irish political on green-energy !

Shit will never take off unless big money can be made. Is what it is.

If this was the ABC I would click on it. Most people do not understand subsidies. You still pay for it, but with interest attached. BURN that coal, I want carbon as the grand solar minimum is encroaching. Yes Nox is bad and carbon not bad

@joedennehy386

5 жыл бұрын

Grand solar minimum should shut all the climate alarmists up, but it wont.....

Aren't fossil fuels also subsidized? Isn't it only fair that solar also be subsidized.

@barrybloggs9474

5 жыл бұрын

I suppose that's why petrol has 48% tax plus gst. If you call that subsidized.

Thorium reactors

People commenting have no knowledge of history. Tax payer money built the electricity industry. When electric power was invented providing it to the people was all government subsidised. Australians first started paying income tax in S. Aust in 1884, followed by other states at 2.5% rate and in 1915 was the first Federal Income Tax to fund WW1 at rates between 3% to 25% and Company Tax was 7.4% and only on profit after dividend payout to share holders. Coal miners established their businesses with super low company tax and power stations were state built, on state land - Tax payer money built the electricity industry on free land and supplied by coal mines that also paid bugger all taxes. Now when company tax is 30%, land costs a fortune, wages are taxed at 30% or more all the short memory commentators are screaming about subsidies to new industries being unfair. Give the new power industry the same free handouts the coal industry had when they started and then we'll see who needs government protection to stop from going broke.

In the UK renewables continue to grow, use of coal has dropped. Its wrong to say solar/wind have a short life span, my panels are guaranteed for 25 years but expected to last up to 50 years ! The inverter is guaranteed for 12 years, the only thing stopping the growth of solar and wind is as you say they produce power when needed ( subsidies are due to stop to wind generation because it is now the cheapest form of energy with massive improvements in both output/size and reliability whilst fossil fuels still receive subsidise) this will soon change with improvements in battery storage, we are at the start of an Ev revolution this will have a knock on effect on battery efficiency and cost , a battery along side your solar panels and wind turbines enables you to store the energy and release it when required. Prices will drop, I brought solar panels not for environmental reasons but for financial, after 8 years they will have paid for themselves after that it is free energy, I just need battery prices to drop to warrant the purchase of them. Here in the UK fossil fuels have always been subsidised and it was a mistake for the government to drop the feed in tariff we have in the UK, which frankly wasn't much ( 4p per kwh and the power companies then charge on average 13p per kwh for the last couple of years , was reduced year on year). For me all new houses should be built with solar installed it just makes economic sense, I'm not an environmentalist but someone who see's that renewables combined with storage will have a dramatic effect on reducing emissions but they need to go hand in hand with nuclear power station !

@johannesswillery7855

5 жыл бұрын

Not a resident of the UK but I believe fossil fuels are taxed. Not totally forthright to imply that fossil fuels are a net government expenditure.

@davefitzpatrick4841

5 жыл бұрын

@@johannesswillery7855 ok not totally correct, petrol/diesel are taxed ( so vehicles) but as for coal etc that's a different matter, they are subsided, as said I'm not an environmentalist but renewables do make sense especially as technology improves, it's just most are ignorant of the advancements being made. www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/23/uk-has-biggest-fossil-fuel-subsidies-in-the-eu-finds-commission

Wind turbine that you have to stop turning if the wind speed goes over a certain level , real handy unless you have massive battery storage . Solar is no better you have also have to have massive battery storage . All of these are manufactured from man made processes all artificial at a great output of emissions and waist when there useful life ends

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Australië needs geothermal and nuclear energy, that will work long and steadily. She is only a bit right about the energy part.

@chrisgriffiths2533

5 жыл бұрын

Ferkeap, No to Nuclear because We Have Enormous Amounts of Solar, Plus Large Amounts of Wind. Tasmania's Wind Potential Alone is Huge. Western Australia's Solar Possibilities is Unbelievable, Enormous. GeoThermal Maybe.

You heard this true message on a news network named *Sky* from a newscaster wearing a jacket with a *green foliage* pattern. What could be greener?

co2 is life. yet another huge guv/corp con.

Absolutely. There should be more subsidies for fossil fuels beyond the billions they already get. Renewables plus storage (you inexplicably forgot to mention the storage bit) don't need subsidies any more because renewable energy infrastructure is already less costly than FF infrastructure and getting cheaper. You might also like to check out the exponential growth of disruptive technologies but I don't suppose you will. It might upset your ideological bias. Renewables are collapsing? In your fossil fueled dreams. If you were the ABC (GBSD forbid) you would probably be obliged to be a little more honest. Not a lot but a little.

Australia's emissions per person have fallen. Thank god. We've become more energy efficient. That makes me very happy. That is just cost saving and makes perfect sense! I try my best to do it too. One of my hopes is that energy saving targets (and it can be driven by both profit and the environment) will help save us. Oh... hang on Peta.... we need to stick with fossil fuels? WTF? Oh yeah, all those scientists just want a bigger UN? WTF? India and China do indeed keep doing what is their own best interests. Peta - they are planting trees! www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47210849 Wake up Australia. While India's and China's armies are out planting millions of trees, we a mucking around debating theories.

The best solar panels on the market even for commercial use are only 18% efficient use of energy. Only 18% efficient! If everyone we're only 18% efficient at their job, only 18% efficient at their attention while driving, only 18% efficient at raising their family, only 18% efficient at doing anything. We wouldn't have very much going on would we no modern world no work with get finished, wouldn't dare get in a car, unsafe homes with children raising themselves more than they do now I'm pretty much the world in chaos. But humans aren't allowed to be like that so why are we accepting 18% efficiency in something that's supposed to be so modern that we are getting rid of what's been reliable for thousands of years to support us and take care of us? Cool deposits have always been there for the use of mankind that's what they are for. Renewable products you can make wood pellet and renew growforce and that number is constantly rotated out to be burned. Your environment would be more stable if you would replant well grasses and trees the hold down the dirt and put more animals on the land instead of it being empty and arid. But we are an inefficient Society now believing that Electronics will save the day that the computers are telling us what to do they couldn't care less about us they're only as good as the people who programmed them. 18% efficiency and that's when the sun shines. Don't get me started about the windmills that kills thousands of birds every single season.

I'm so glad that President Trump pulled us out of that terrible Paris climate deal that would have cost us not only at home in the US, but had us paying billions to India and other developing countries who are allowed to INCREASE their co2 emissions. Solar and wind are not economically feasible without being subsidized by taxpayer's money. That means they get you coming and going!

Didn't know you all had money to spare, tons of it. Here, the U.S is broke !!!!!

What about the fuel subsidies? You know both petrol and coal are subsidized right? Oh you're giving us the facts, just not all of them.

@mistersmacky

5 жыл бұрын

How about you list some dollar values? Most publications that make the claims about fuel and coal subsidies in Australia list the primary dollar value of the subsidy as ""the under-pricing of local air pollution" or ""future property price losses due to climate change"", so it's basically just them guessing and making up numbers.

@timbozza1678

5 жыл бұрын

@@mistersmacky Fossil fuels are just under 10x the subsidies of renewables. Yet, solar and wind make-up around 3-4% of Australia's total energy consumption, compared to fossil fuels which make up 92-93% of energy consumption. So renewables are subsidized more than 2x the rate of what fossil fuels are. Advocates of renewables keep playing semantic games, like asserting that renewables don't have any negative environmental impact when they do, or not comparing subsidies at the $/MWh. Solar and Wind energy costs much more than fossil fuel energy and have a much more detrimental impact on human safety and the environment compared to safer energy sources like nuclear energy. Additionally, prices for transforming the electricity grid to account for distributed generation from renewables and to cope with higher electricity demand from electric cars are grossly underestimated by orders of magnitude, or just simply ignored.

@joedennehy386

5 жыл бұрын

They are not subsidised, but are in fact taxed at about a dollar per litre, did you graduate from kindy? can you read. comics don't count......... Inform yourself charlie....... fool.

Amazing how none of that was fact! Just hyperbole. Reporting has gotten worse and worse since Universities became a cash crop.

and the world looks down on us in america because our president pulled out of the paris climate accord...smart man we elected here:)

That figures only works with grants. To much maintanance panels don't last long and not much return on power just no profit

@chrisgriffiths2533

5 жыл бұрын

Martin, How Many Cars, Trucks, Tractors, Loaders Break Down Each Day?.

@MartinA-kp8xg

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrisgriffiths2533 strange question are you asking me or is this the intro to tell me for some reason

@chrisgriffiths2533

5 жыл бұрын

@@MartinA-kp8xg Martin, You mentioned Solar Panels don't last long. So How Many Cars, Trucks, Tractors, Loaders Break Down.? Also Martin what is the Warranty on Your Car?

@MartinA-kp8xg

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrisgriffiths2533 weak point of no relavance there are wind farms standing abandoned because no company wants to take them on. There is no profit in them without massive incentive subsidy. The maintanance out costs the electric produced that is not as much as claimed and not constant as solar panals are not also. The modern engine is very reliable we could not do without it our whole infrastructure rely heavily on it and it is most certainly profitable to those that use it. Modern clean burn engines are very economical, are rewarded with low tax as emission are so low. The co2 part of emission does no harm at all that's propaganda. Green electric can't work in large quantity, it does not stand on its own.

@chrisgriffiths2533

5 жыл бұрын

@@MartinA-kp8xg Martin, You have to change the Oil, Filters, Spark plugs, Tyres. Plus you have to Constantly fill up the Tank with Diesel or Petrol. Solar Panel you clean every now and then but not much else to do. Plus Wind Turbines going in all Over the World, Scotland, Denmark, Norway all running on 90% Wind!. Tasmania, New Zealand have Enormous Wind, Hydro Possibilities. QLD, WA, NT, SA all have massive Solar Potential plus Wind.

They’ll be calling this lady a nazi soon if not already. Thank god for Donald trump. He can at least slow down and Dismantle some of this madness. Imagine what he’s doing behind closed doors. Judges, education etc

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Poor sods in the AGW Death Cult.