Frank wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 11:18am:

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 12:09pm:


The article's author:



Dr Ross Babbage AM

Ross Babbage is the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Strategic Forum.

He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) in Washington, D.C. and Managing Director of Strategy International (ACT) Pty Ltd.  In addition, Ross is Founder of the Kokoda Foundation and a Founding Governor of the Institute for Regional Security, Chair of the Academic Council of the Australian Business Academy, a member of Accenture’s Advisory Board and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Menzies Research Centre.


Dr Babbage served for 16 years in the Australian Public Service holding several senior positions, including Head of Strategic Analysis in the Office of National Assessments and leading the branches in the Department of Defence responsible for ANZUS and global strategic policy and then Force Development. During the 1990s he held senior executive positions with ADI Pty Ltd, that was then Australia’s largest defence manufacturing and services organisation. In 2003 and 2004 he served as Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. Dr Babbage was a special advisor to the Minister for Defence during the preparation of the 2009 Australian defence white paper. He was also served on the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London for a maximum six year term. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2011.

Frank wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 12:17pm:


So, at least not  the ASPI institute: "freedom values" f**kwits to a man.

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And Andrew Leigh is a Harvard-trained economist, which is the very reason WHY he is blinded by neoclassical "scarcity" dogma.

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Sounding more and more like a neanderthal ASPI f**kwit, willing to immolate the world over Taiwan's sovereignty.

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He is certainly qualified to join the f**kwits at the ASPI....doubt he can match Leigh's economic qualifications ( anachronistic as they are...)

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 11:52am:


And even when renewables are not rolled out. Providing that the greenies don't manage to stop research and mining.

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 11:52am:


So the bloke with no engineering says. You haven't stated where these renewables are located. What time zones? Time Zones? Those things that cause variation in output.

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 11:52am:


Stabiliser? When you want to start your EV in the morning? Rooftop solar is just too variable. They generally don't use tracking. And then of course there are plenty of those mounted on East or west side facing. What is the output timeline on them daily?

Just another example of you just reading the headlines.

freediver wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 12:21pm:


Not really, though I'm not sure he saw my answers to his quesions.

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No it's not (if AGW-CO2 is real, and a climate catastrophe is emerging; as a majority of the world's climate scientists are claiming.....and increasinly appears to be true)

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No it doesn't.

Oz is the one country in the world - a vast sunny desert with windy coastlines, and a small population - which could transition to near zero emissions within a decade. 

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Yes.   

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Admittedly I had to answer some fairly basic questions from him...

Re metallurgical coal, its days are also numbered,  as green hydrogen fired smelters come on line.

lee wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 12:41pm:


Poor lee: "climate hoax" theorist extraordinaire.

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Speak to the Singapore govenrment (who have access to some clever engineers); they have aleardy signed an agreement with Suncable.

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Yes; some homes will largely power themselves  24/7 (given battery storage) during periods of sunny weather; and other homes will do same in different areas of the country at different times; grid interconnection is required of course.   Excess renewables can be exported overseas, with UHV tranmission.

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 1:20pm:


And yet you haven't quantified where these renewables will come from. Nothing to do with climate. RENEWABLES.

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 1:20pm:


And the Suncable haven't got the renewables. But it is a CONDITIONAL agreement. You know what CONDITIONAL means? It means there are CONDITIONS attached.

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 1:20pm:


Household solar doesn't stabilise the grid. Extra are needed. Funded by whom?

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 1:20pm:


Wow Now you are going to have UHV transmission to every hub.

Once again doesn't read beyond the headlines. And doesn't even read the headlines correctly.

Daves2017 wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 1:29pm:


So your argument is that climate change is a hoax and coal will continue to be exported at the current rate....As the world moves away from fossil fuel how do you expect Australia to maintain it's current levels of exports....The Coalition are taking more fossil fuels and no investment in renewable energy to the next election....Australia cannot afford Peter Dutton and the Coal industry running the country???