Lasts 20 years then it’s decommissioned leaving us nothing! Follow the money trail????

These scumbags keep selling there lies, and the stupid people keep believing them. So we the taxpayers keep footing the bill on this total scam and road the government have sent us down.

I want to hear about how we are leaving the UN and no longer providing baseless donations to 3rd world countries with wealthy corrupt leaders in control. Generally, I'm sick of the 'attitude' in people's tone when it's their turn to respond to fair questions. Good on you for asking reasonable questions. Too many government workers, all worrying about their own place on the 'coporate organisation chart'.

I can imagine how it went… Plenty of ‘we’ll take that on notice’ aka we’re not answering the question and plenty of arrogance, eye rolling and huffing from gallagher.

The raw material is cheap, it is also devoid of energy density. The real cost is the destruction of living standards caused by using inefficient energy. All inefficiency is inflationary. Thats why big government loves it, they need inflation to appease their handlers.

And how much money are these people being paid, a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year. They never have to worry where their money is coming from or struggle to to find the money to pay for the basics in life. Bloody disgrace

Disgusting contempt shown by bureaucrats that are paid by taxpayers monies! 🤬

Seems the people who are all for solar.... can afford the transition , they have no idea what it's like to be one of the striving ,passionate underpaid worker , let alone a pensioner with little supa backup

Not watching what they spend.

NOT VOTING for Labor/ greens is a good start.

Grants are tax payers money

Yes high power bills 💵 because they are in charge when we got Mail in letter boxes and government mind their businesses we paid cheaper bills just because we have internet and they can put all these turbines up and give other countries to build them it’s costing more $$$$ bs ripped off families

Senator Malcolm Roberts Does that money handed out include the environmental impact study and the affect these wing farms have on the environment on the ground not the air with birds ect. But the carving of pristine forests in many areas in Australia. There are wind farms in State forests and farms on once were beautiful unspoilt forests that had the largest habitat of Koalas and endangered possums. It is environmental vandalism on a scale larger then the Franklin Dam would have been, its bigger than the Exxon Valdez. If I did that amount of damage to my property I would be sent to Jail for the rest of my life. If a farmer or a property owner wants to do something to their land they have to jump through all kinds of environmental impact studies and it might take years, how can these wind farm companies get these environmental study done so quickly and in areas where up until now your were not even allowed to step foot in. And the another thing how many of these companies are fully Australian owned. I don't know about you or anyone else I am sick to death of seeing these wind farms on our skyline on pristine mountains and in forests.

Listen to this phuckwit will you,go for the jugular Malcolm

Carbon emissions my arse we put out a fraction of a fraction of 1% ,anyway who is this waste of taxpayers money,I’d like to know 😡

What bullshit answering give millions $$$ away and still no cheaper bills after years of these guys getting paid to do nothing to lower bills utter joke

These morons think about no one but themselves😡

200 years time the power bill will drop

Time for us to stand up and vote these A$$ holes out for good We’ve had enough Each arty fails then the next party gets on and they do worse And the cycle just keeps on going Vote one nation It’s our only Hope

I was reading where Westinghouse have developed fully sealed small nuclear electricity generators that can be situated wherever they are required and they are good for about eight years and when necessary the unit can be disconnected from the grid, removed and a new unit installed and connected to the grid. There is no requirement for external cooling. Surely this would be more economical than renewables. I think the output is around 8 megawatts. May pay Australia to look into this as a stopgap for a full-size nuclear power plant.

Lol. So cutting down forests and digging gaping holes in the ground for lithium and rare earth metals isn't harmful to the environment but drilling a hole for oil is?🤔 Yes I know its about emissions. But surely the emissions to make such holes in the ground and cutting down forests is probably worst than driving a gasoline powered car.

These overpaid beaurocratic clowns are there due to the clown we voted in parliament let's vote for minor parties and get out country back on track

Why have they rushed into renewables? We just are not ready. Common-sense tells you that. I despair.

The 1st guy at least had some logical substance in attempting to answer the questions, though still could not give a definitive answer on wether the cost of energy was getting lower with the current strategy. The second guy just being very patronising and condescending arrogance, danced around with words and like a classic politician who wanted to divert from arriving at an answer that was needed, added absolutely no value and no substance to the conversation, went off a tangent that had nothing to do with the question. Just like the principal in Billy Madison We are dumber for listening to him for the 5 minutes of dribble... most of these politicians embarrassingly actually not not know the difference between "power" and "Energy", do not care about cost to the average person and hell bent on renewables at any cost.

How do we go from being totally independent with our own power resources to being reliant upon renewables from abroad who use our coal for energy? Seems to not be in Australia’s best interests