Energy Illiterate Halfwits Responsible For Subsidised Wind & Solar Death Spiral

To call it ‘energy policy’ is to flatter it. Attempting to run first world economies on part-time power is not just delusional, it is criminal. Unfortunately, those responsible for the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time can only be brought to justice at the ballot box.

In Australia, a group of energy illiterate halfwits are firmly in charge. And the inevitable consequence of their ideological crusade are ever-rocketing retail power prices and a power grid on the very brink of collapse.

The head lunatic, Chris Bowen quite evidently suffers from delusions of grandeur. Utterly detached from reality he lined up at the COP28 climate cult festivities and delivered a farcical and thoroughly embarrassing “acknowledgement to country” – ignoring his oil-rich Arab hosts and pretending to notice the ‘plight’ of ‘native peoples’ all around the world. Cringeworthy stuff, indeed.

While every other country worth its salt was talking up nuclear power generation, Bowen (always a Pygmy amongst giants) determined to stand out from the pack by rejecting safe, reliable and affordable nuclear power out of hand, the same way the spoiled brat rejects the healthy and nourishing meal served up by his overworked mother.

Given his Parliamentary performance to date, it’s hard to think that Bowen could sink any lower in public estimation, but at COP28 our hapless so-called Energy Minister managed it at a trot.

One character who won’t be applauding Chris Bowen anytime soon, is Ian Plimer.

Ian Plimer is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, and the director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies. He has published numerous scientific papers, 7 books and is one of the co-editors of Encyclopedia of Geology. His works include The Climate Change Delusion and The Great Electricity Ripoff.

Picking up on the theme above, here’s Ian being interviewed on Sky News’ Outsiders.

Australia’s Renewable Energy Death Spiral 
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Ian Plimer on Outsiders
17 December 2023

Geologist Ian Plimer has slammed the COP28 climate summit, calling it a “giant jaunt” and a “party”.

Mr Plimer told Sky News Australia that Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen is a “clown”.

“Here he was saying Australia is going to go all in the death spiral of renewable energy,” he said.

“Yet other countries were saying they’re going to triple their nuclear.

“People went to Bowen’s talk just to have a great laugh.”

Transcript

Rowan Dean: Ian, now tell us about your take on COP28. There’s so much to go through. Bowen giving us a Welcome to Country. We’ve got a call for nuclear energy. We’ve got the Sheikh Jaber saying we’ve got to have more oil. Tell us your take on COP28, Ian.

Ian Plimer: Well, Flop28 was no different from the others. If we really had a climate crisis and wanted to have a net-zero by 2050, we wouldn’t have solved the problem in two or three meetings. This is a giant jaunt and a party. And we sent some 48 people from this country over there in Kevin Rudd’s time. We sent something like 117 or 120 to Copenhagen. This is a giant party, but you have these people getting up, giving boring speeches. But fortunately, we have Chris Bowen, the Australian minister. Now, we all know he’s had a very successful charisma bypass operation. This is why people went to his talk, to hear this clown, because in boring conferences you have to have a bit of comic relief. And here he was saying Australia’s going to go all in the death spiral of renewable energy. Yet other countries were saying they’re going to triple their nuclear.

The Gulf states are saying, “Oh, we’re going to transition. We’re going to use more gas.” China’s saying, “Oh, we’re going to transition and use more coal.” And Saudi’s saying, “Well, we’re going to transition too and we’re going to use more oil.” This is not a conference about climate, it’s a conference about energy. We have a crisis of energy and the world has realised it. And as soon as the Germans got back home, what happened? They slashed 45 billion off the climate budget and put it into defence. They put it where it was useful. The Germans have realised they can’t run their country on sea breezes and sunbeams. They realised they need nuclear, they need coal, they need gas. So we’re going the exact opposite direction. So people went to Bowen’s talk just to have a great laugh.

Rowan Dean: James.

James Morrow: I never, Ian, and by the way, Merry Christmas to you, never would have expected that Chris Bowen would be doing great comedy stylings. Maybe we could put the wisdom of Chris Bowen on by the tree after opening the presents, for a bit of a laugh. But I want to ask a serious question, though. When that COP28, or Flop28 as you so aptly put it, was wrapping up, here in New South Wales, we were being told on a reasonably warm day, don’t turn on your air conditioner, don’t run the clothes dryer, don’t run your dishwasher for God’s sake. You can still charge your electric car. This seems to underscore the real problem we have in this country, that on the one hand you’ve got the Bowens of the world saying fossil fuels are over. On the other hand, you’ve got Jim Chalmers saying we need these things to keep our budget in the black. And you’ve got this huge regulatory apparatus which Gina Rinehart and others have spoken about, which makes it very difficult to get energy out of the ground.

You’ve had a lot of experience with this. How is it that the government can be saying that they need this for the budget, but then trying to keep it in the ground? It seems like the height of hypocrisy to me, Ian Plimer.

Ian Plimer: Well, yes. They speak with a forked tongue and they continue to go down the path which they know is economically disastrous. So not only do we have New South Wales telling people on a very mild day that you’ve got to stop using energy, we have Victoria doing deals with Aboriginal corporations to put in more wind turbines across the country. They did a deal with a Sydney Indigenous security company, and 801 lives later we saw the result. So they’re doing exactly the same thing in Victoria. Queensland’s doing the same with energy. We have an energy crisis in Australia. We also have a crisis of common sense and we also have a crisis of good leadership. So this is just continuing the story, and I think ultimately we have to have a change of government and someone coming in like Alexander the Great with a sword just cutting the knot.

Rowan Dean: Liz.

Liz Storer: Ian, what do you put this government’s reluctance to do anything about nuclear? What do you put it down to? Obviously, they say, “Oh, it’s because it’s too expensive. The upfront costs. It’s pie in the sky.” I think Bowen once described it as a pipe dream wrapped in a unicorn, etc, and so on. We know the excuses that they give us for maintaining the moratorium, etc, and so on. We know them to be untrue. Is this just about padding the pockets of their renewables mates, honouring the deals that have been done behind closed doors, or do you see this as a much larger agenda at play?

Ian Plimer: Well, there’s a number of agendas here. The left likes to frighten people. That’s their mechanism of gaining power. And you can’t see radiation, nor can you see carbon dioxide, nor can you see viruses of bacteria. So these are wonderful mechanisms of frightening the people and controlling the people. We’ve had nuclear power in this country for more than 60 years. Yes, it’s a small amount we generate, and if anyone has ever had cancer and you’re anti-nuclear, you are a hypocrite, because we generate medical isotopes at Lucas Heights in Sydney. We’re now onto our second large reactor there. That produces 20 megawatts of power. We have the skills, we have the people, we’re already a nuclear nation. So what we’re hearing is absolute codswallop.

Now, you hit on a very important point. One of the big investors in the renewables industry, well I call it the ruinables industry, are the super funds run by the unions. Now, the Labor Party is not a political party. It’s actually the wing of the unions. It’s the political wing of the unions and they’re just looking after their mates as Labor has always done. So their reasons for objecting to nuclear are financial. Many, many countries in the world have nuclear and are very, very successful in producing cheap, reliable power. Even countries with a number of greens and socialist countries have nuclear. So Labor is in it, not for political reasons, but purely to look after their mates in the unions. And that to me is an absolute disgrace.

Rowan Dean: Professor Ian Plimer, fantastic analysis there. Great insights, as you’ve given us all year. Thank you so much. It’s been such a pleasure having you on the show, and have a very Merry Christmas to your family and to yourself, and we will see you next year.

Ian Plimer: And the same to all of you.

Liz Storer: Thank you.

Rowan Dean: Thank you, Professor Ian Plimer.

Ian Plimer: Merry Christmas.

Rowan Dean: Merry Christmas, mate.
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