There has never been more wind and solar in the grid than we have now, and yet power bills have never been higher.
Coal power is still the cheapest form of electricity we can make on demand, so we should be building more of it.
We need to abandon the UN net-zero pipe dream before it sends the country completely broke.
Transcript
This Greens motion complains that the government has approved five new coal projects this year, yet the government is not approving enough coal projects. We need to get these mines rolling. Australia need this government to approve coal-fired power stations. The Greens like to cherry-pick, so let’s look at what else the International Energy Agency said in July:
Coal consumption in 2022 rose by 3.3% to 8.3 billion tonnes, setting a new record — a new world record. So much for the death of coal. Instead the Greens would have Australia miss out on the tax revenue from this boom, which funds our hospitals, roads and schools and saved our economy in the last budget.
It’s always important to debunk the myth of cheap wind and solar in these debates. Today we have the highest proportion ever of wind, solar and batteries in the grid—more accurately known as unreliables, not renewables. Just ask any Australian. These are facts. Our power bills have never been higher. While the government sits on its hands about nuclear, building cheap, coal-fired power is the only solution we have for the cost-of-living crisis. The UN net zero pipe dream is already sending Australians broke and, if we don’t stop it now, the UN net zero nightmare will send the entire country broke. Unreliables have increased to only 36 per cent of Australia’s electricity needs, and look at the damage they’re already doing. If you think it’s bad now, this government wanted to get it to 82 per cent in 2030. That’s madness.
Meanwhile, as Australia annually mines 560 million tonnes of coal, China produces 4.5 billion tonnes, almost nine times as much, and on top of that China imports additional coal from us. I congratulate the government on approving some coal projects and criticise them for not approving more.
Before we all go broke, Australia needs more mines so we have coal on the ground, on ships, in power stations and in steam wheels, serving humanity.
Thank you for looking after us as the government should be doing – but is not
The whole carbon-warming fiction is built on malinformation about an alleged “heat trapping” property of a rare and vital trace gas.
There is no mechanism in gas physics for CO2 to trap heat.
Planck’s Law, Wien’s Displacement Law, and Kirchhoff’s Law of thermal radiation prove that.
The best CO2 can do is delay outgoing longwave infrared radiation for a billionth of a second and change its wavelength slightly (Stokes Shift).
The left’s war on coal is really the globalists’ war on advanced societies.
This madness will only get worse until we have a number of massive blackouts – ideally on a hot summer day so that all the inner-city-suburban air-conditioners stop working and then – perhaps – one or two of the self-righteous “Save-the-Planet with ‘renewables'” zealots might start to think (Dangerous word, that one!) about their cultist quasi-religion of Saving the Planet”!
I’m old enough to remember a time when Australia was a prosperous country where power was cheap and reliable, and provided by Coal fired power stations
For a supposedly :intelligent” species our modern politicians and the “elite” of this nation are hell bent on destroying Australia’s economy, and to make life as difficult as possible for business and the ordinary people.
I don’t believe we are in “Climate Crisis”. Nature has had multiple climate changes over millions of years, and current times are no different
Australia is 1% of the world’s emissions and yet our government, and the LNP have both signed up for the lunacy of Net Zero, regardless of the cost to Australia and her people, and the environment in implementing these ludicrous policies
I have great distress at what sort of country my children and grandchildren will inherit