Lunacy Unplugged: Renewable Energy Debacle Proves Clowns Are Clearly In Charge

When disaster threatens the rational retreat, but the clown soldiers on and even doubles down, accelerating the race to oblivion.

Facts are treated with contempt; reality with derision. So it is with the grand wind and solar transition. It’s a disease of the mind that allows for the belief that a first world economy can run entirely on sunshine and breezes.

Which brings us to the clowns that are in charge of Australia’s self-inflicted renewable energy debacle.

As Sky News’ Chris Kenny outlines below, rather than reflecting and recalibrating, the idiots that pass as our political betters have decided to accelerate their mission to drive Australia into the ground, for good.

‘Green energy guinea pigs’: Albanese government ‘doubling down’ on renewables
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Chris Kenny
25 September 2023

Sky News host Chris Kenny says the Albanese Labor government is “doubling down” on renewables amid concerns about their impact on the Australian energy grid.

Mr Kenny’s comments come after the Albanese government announced another $70 million for a “so-called green hydrogen project” in Whyalla on Monday.

“The Bureau of Meteorology Chief Andrew Johnson says the El Nino summer poses a threat to our energy grid because it’ll be our first hot summer with so much renewable energy in the system,” Mr Kenny said.

“In other words, it’s the first hot summer since a bunch of other baseload generation has been shut down.

“The problem is the electricity grid, what we’ve done to it, and how we now don’t have enough reliable, dispatchable electricity.

“South Australia sure is at the vanguard – that’s why it has the most expensive electricity in the nation and the least reliable, no baseload generation, totally reliant on renewables, backup generators and interstate supplies – little wonder it’s the only state to have a statewide blackout.

“We are the green energy guinea pigs for the rest of the world.”

Transcript

Chris Kenny: Let me give you another insight into our ongoing national energy self-harm. National disaster management experts have gathered for a summit in Canberra, and look at this contribution from the weather bureau. The BOM chief, Andrew Johnson, says the El Nino summer poses a threat to our energy grid, because it’ll be our first hot summer with so much renewable energy in the system. In other words, it’s the first hot summer since a bunch of other base load generation has been shut down. Well done governments.

But the problem here is not the weather. We can always expect hot summers. We always have and we always will have hot summers. Just because we had a couple of mild summers doesn’t mean we didn’t all know we’d have plenty of scorches to come. The problem is not the weather. It is the electricity grid. What we’ve done to it. And how we now don’t have enough reliable, dispatchable electricity. Pretty straightforward.

We’ll always have those summers and we’ll always have air conditioners, but we can no longer rely on the energy to power them. But the Albanese Labour Government of course is doubling down on all this stuff, announcing just another $70 million today for a so-called green hydrogen project in Whyalla.

Anthony Albanese: There is an opportunity that Australia has to be a renewable energy superpower, and South Australia has been at the forefront of the transition to renewables for a long period of time. It can certainly be at the forefront of this transition to be a renewable energy superpower.

Chris Kenny: Really? “A renewable energy superpower?” You would think that a renewable energy superpower would have lots of power, energy, and South Australia sure is at the vanguard. That’s why it has the most expensive electricity in the nation and the least reliable. No base load generation in South Australia, totally reliant on renewables, backup generators, and interstate supplies. Little wonder it’s the only state to have a statewide blackout. It cost that state hundreds of millions of dollars, remember? That was back in 2016, and it plunged the state back into 1816, which just shows us what we’ve done to ourselves on energy.

Here’s what that visiting energy expert tells us about our move to a renewables plus storage model. A model I keep saying has simply not been attempted, let alone achieved, in any comparable country around the world.

Mark Nelson: If any country can do it, maybe it’s Australia. And I guess I really appreciate your sacrifice in this fairly dangerous experiment that you’re undertaking, because I don’t have to suffer the consequences.

Chris Kenny: Yeah, that’s it. We are suffering the consequences. That’s exactly it. It’s a grand experiment. Wonderful, isn’t it? We are the green energy guinea pigs for the rest of the world.
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